"The plural form 'Englishes' conveys the diversity of English as a global language, pinpointing the growth and existence of a large number of national, regional and social forms. The global spread of English and the new varieties that have emerged around the world has grown to be a vast area of study and research, which intersects multiple disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of World Englishes fro ..."
"The Late Modern period is the first in the history of English for which an unprecedented wealth of textual material exists. Using increasingly sophisticated databases, the contributions in this volume explore grammatical usage from the period, specifically morphological and syntactic change, in a broad context. Some chapters explore the socio-historical background of the period while others provide information on prescriptivism, newspap ..."
"Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent debates surrounding substratal influence in e ..."
"Bringing together experts from both historical linguistics and psychology, this volume addresses core factors in language change from the perspectives of both fields. It explores the potential (and limitations) of such an interdisciplinary approach, covering the following factors: frequency, salience, chunking, priming, analogy, ambiguity and acquisition. Easily accessible, the book features chapters by psycholinguists presenting cuttin ..."
"Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matter ..."
Late Modern English Syntax (Studies in English Language) by MarianneHundt Hardcover, 408 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-03279-8, ISBN: 1-107-03279-2
"The Late Modern period is the first in the history of English for which an unprecedented wealth of textual material exists. Using increasingly sophisticated databases, the contributions in this volume explore grammatical usage from the period, specifically morphological and syntactic change, in a broad context. Some chapters explore the socio-historical background of the period while others provide information on prescriptivism, newspap ..."
"Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent debates surrounding substratal influence in e ..."
"Anyone in business in Britain who needed to keep accounts did so in the mixed
— language system, not in monolingual English. Writing in Britain was dem—
onstrably a trilingual affair during this period,3 as can be seen by perusing the
Middle English Dictionary, the Anglo—Norman Dictionary and the Dictionary of
Medieval Latin from British Sources, and considering the overlap. In a recent
paper Rothwell (2010: 20) relates 'Frankwalt M ..."
"Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matter ..."
"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE General editor Merja Kyto (Uppsala
University) Editorial Board Bas Aarts (University College London), John Algeo (
University of Georgia), Susan Fitzmaurice (Northern Arizona University), Charles
F. Meyer ... English: History, Variation and Standardization Evelien KeiZer: The
English Noun Phrase: The Nature of Linguistic Categorization Raymond Hickey:
Trish English: History and Present—Day Forms Gunter Ro ..."