Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective

by Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell

Overview

The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110173680
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	07/30/2002
Series:	Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Series , #39
Edition description:	Reprint 2011
Pages:	502
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.06(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Donka Minkova is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA. Robert Stockwell is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA.