{"product_id":"analysing-older-english-paperback-9781107681415","title":"Analysing Older English (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107681415","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAnalysing Older English\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn edited volume which addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Denison (Edited by), Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (Edited by), Chris McCully (Edited by), Emma Moore (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107681415, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 April 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages, 16 b\/w illus.  2 maps  69 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This volume comprises a wide-ranging collection of papers on historical linguistics. … [it] continues an approach to historical data of which Richard Hogg would have been proud.' Phillip Wallage, Journal of English Language and Linguistics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIs historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of misinterpretation or over-interpretation. Even so, gaps in the data can sometimes be filled. The volume brings together a team of leading English historical linguists who have encountered such issues first-hand, to discuss and suggest solutions to a range of problems in the phonology, syntax, dialectology and onomastics of older English. The topics extend widely over the history of English, chronologically and linguistically, and include Anglo-Saxon naming practices, the phonology of the alliterative line, computational measurement of dialect similarity, dialect levelling and enregisterment in late Modern English, stress-timing in English phonology and the syntax of Old and early Modern English. The book will be of particular interest to researchers and students in English historical linguistics.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eGeneral introduction David Denison, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Chris McCully and Emma Moore, with Donka Minkova\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Metrics and Onomastics in Older English: 1. Introduction Chris McCully and David Denison\u003cbr\u003e 2. What explanatory metrics has to say about the history of English function words Geoffrey Russom\u003cbr\u003e 3. To þære fulan flóde óf þære fulan flode: on becoming a name in Easton and Winchester, Hampshire Richard Coates\u003cbr\u003e 4. Notes on some interfaces between place-name material and linguistic theory Peter Kitson\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Writing Practices in Older English: 5. Introduction Chris McCully\u003cbr\u003e 6. Anglian features in late West Saxon prose R. D. Fulk\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'ea' in early Middle English: from diphthong to digraph Roger Lass and Margaret Laing\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Dialects in Older English: 8. Introduction: on the impossibility of historical sociolinguistics Emma Moore\u003cbr\u003e 9. Levelling and enregisterment in northern dialects of late modern English Joan Beal\u003cbr\u003e 10. Quantitative historical dialectology April McMahon and Warren Maguire\u003cbr\u003e 11. Reconstructing syntactic continuity and change in early modern English regional dialects: the case of who Terttu Nevalainen\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Sound Change in Older English: 12. Introduction: when a knowledge of history is a dangerous thing Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero\u003cbr\u003e 13. Syllable weight and the weak-verb paradigms in Old English Donka Minkova\u003cbr\u003e 14. How to weaken one's consonants, strengthen one's vowels, and remain English at the same time Nikolaus Ritt\u003cbr\u003e 15. Degemination in English, with special reference to the Middle English period Derek Britton\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Syntax in Older English: 16. Introduction David Denison\u003cbr\u003e 17. The status of the postposed 'and-adjective' construction in Old English: attributive or predicative? Olga Fischer\u003cbr\u003e 18. DO with weak verbs in early modern English Anthony Warner.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Grammar, syntax \u0026amp; morphology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Grammar, syntax \u0026amp; morphology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Grammar,%20syntax%20\u0026amp;%20morphology%20%5BCFK%5D%22\"\u003eCFK\u003c\/a\u003e], Historical \u0026amp; comparative linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Historical \u0026amp; comparative linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Historical%20\u0026amp;%20comparative%20linguistics%20%5BCFF%5D%22\"\u003eCFF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265878806808,"sku":"9781107681415","price":38.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107681415i.jpg?v=1694507610","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/analysing-older-english-paperback-9781107681415","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}