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Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto
Gotti, Maurizio ; Kytö, Merja ; Scahill, John (Author)
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Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto - Gotti, Maurizio ; Kytö, Merja ; Scahill, John
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Synopsis "Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto"
This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process - such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation - through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically. The linguistic fields treated include word semantics, stylistics, orthography, word-order, pragmatics and lexicography. The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto's writings and an index of linguistic terms.
