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Series: Logos Studies in Language and Linguistics
Daniel Jones (1881-1967) played a significant role in the emergence of phonetics as a fully developed academic discipline in the first half of the twentieth century. Jones's pioneering works are made easily accessible to scholars once again....
Published November 27th 2002 by Routledge
Series: Logos Studies in Language and Linguistics
Daniel Jones (1881-1967) played a significant role in the emergence of phonetics as a fully developed academic discipline in the first half of the twentieth century. Jones's pioneering works are made easily accessible to scholars once again....
Published November 27th 2002 by Routledge
Series: Logos Studies in Language and Linguistics
Daniel Jones (1881-1967) played a significant role in the emergence of phonetics as a fully developed academic discipline in the first half of the twentieth century. Jones's pioneering works are made easily accessible to scholars once again....
Published November 27th 2002 by Routledge
This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of the English Language.Each chapter in the workbook corresponds directly to a chapter in the textbook and offers exercises, review questions, extensive supplementary...
Published June 26th 2002 by Routledge
This groundbreaking collection explores the beliefs and approaches to the history of English that do not make it into standard textbooks.Orthodox histories have presented a tunnel version of the history of the English language which is sociologically inadequate. In this book a range of leading...
Published December 19th 2001 by Routledge
Series: Logos Studies in Language and Linguistics
Celtic Linguistics 1700 - 1850 is a set of reprinted texts showing the growth of this subject during a key period in its history. Setting off from the antiquarian search for origins during the Renaissance, the texts trace the development and refinement of the subject until the introduction of the...
Published December 8th 1999 by Routledge
Series: Language Workbooks
History of English: * covers the development of the English language from the 5th century to the present day* contains a `mini-corpus' of texts, used for exercises and to illustrate points raised in the commentary* introduces key linguistic concepts* provides `discussion points' to generate debate*...
Published July 2nd 1997 by Routledge
A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism, the issues of language maintenance and...
Published June 4th 1997 by Routledge
Series: The English Language Series
This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision than before, often pinpointing the beginnings of linguistic innovations in place and time. The author...
Published May 29th 1997 by Routledge
Through his analysis of selected major developments in the history of English, Jeremy Smith argues that the history of the language can only be understood from a dynamic perspective. He proposes that internal linguistic mechanisms for language change cannot be meaningfully explained in isolation or...
Published October 16th 1996 by Routledge
