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Verlag Peter Lang The Development from Case-Forms to Prepositional
Book SynopsisThe development from a synthetic to an analytic language is one of the most important topics in English historical syntax. This development is reflected in the gradual decrease of case-forms and the replacement of their functions with equivalent prepositional constructions. Focussing on the Old English period, when case-forms and prepositional constructions overlapped in various functions, this book aims to answer an unresolved question: was there a significant change in the use of case-forms and, alternatively, in the use of prepositions plus case-forms in contexts where both types were possible? The author makes a statistical comparison between prose texts written in the early Old English period and texts of the later Old English period; she also takes into account stylistic features of individual texts. Thus, this book addresses this Old English syntactic issue both from a historical and a stylistic perspective and shows the stages of development during the Old English period.Trade Review«The single dimension along which Sato traces the development of competing forms is illuminating. [...] The dimension that she has elaborated and the summaries and generalizations that she has provided are admirable in their clarity.» (Thomas Cable, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies)Table of ContentsContents: Instrumentality – Manner – Accompaniment – Point of Time – Duration of Time – Origin – Specification – Dative Absolute – The Parker Chronicle – Boethius – Bede – Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies – Ælfric’s Lives of Saints – Wulfstan’s Homilies.
£62.73
Verlag Peter Lang Textual Healing: Studies in Medieval English
Book SynopsisThe studies presented in this volume concentrate on different aspects of the medical, scientific and technical varieties of early English used in a wide range of medieval manuscripts. As the growing body of research published in recent years has shown, analysing the language of specialised texts is an opportunity to obtain access to the early history and vernacularisation of learned writing styles. It is an area of study in which all the contributors have considerable expertise, which affords them to present data findings while discussing important methodological issues. In addition, in most cases data derive from specially-designed ‘second-generation’ corpora, reflecting state-of-the-art approaches to historical linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics. Theoretical issues concerning the digital edition of medical and scientific texts, their role in social network analysis, and their value in the identification of dialectal specific traits are highlighted by the authors.Table of ContentsContents: Francisco Alonso-Almeida: Null Objects in Middle English Medical Texts – Graham D. Caie: The Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow – Javier Calle-Martín: Line-final Word Division in Late Middle English Fachprosa: G.U.L. MS Hunter 497 (V.7.24) – Mark Chambers: What is this, a betel, or a batowe, or a buskin lacyd?: Lexicological Confusion in Medieval Clothing Culture – Javier E. Díaz Vera: Analysing the Diffusion of Scientific Metaphors through a Corpus of Middle English Medical Texts – María Laura Esteban-Segura: Punctuation Practice in G.U.L. MS Hunter 509 – Teresa Marqués-Aguado: The Dialectal Provenance of G.U.L. MS Hunter 513 – David Moreno-Olalla/Antonio Miranda-García: An Annotated Corpus of Middle English Scientific Prose: Aims and Features – Nadia Obegi-Gallardo: A Lexical Study of The Book of Operation (G.U.L. MS Hunter 95 (T.4.12) ff.82r-156v): Illnesses and Treatment – Elena Quintana-Toledo: Orality in the Middle English Medical Recipes of G.U.L. Hunter 185 – Irma Taavitsainen: Early English Scientific Writing: New Corpora, New Approaches.
£48.15
De Gruyter Jugendsprachen/Youth Languages: Aktuelle
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£297.00
de Gruyter SocioPragmatic Variation in Ireland
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£100.50
De Gruyter Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek
Book SynopsisLinguistic varieties such as female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language have not gone unnoticed when it comes to Classical Greek, but little is known about later periods of the Greek language. In this collective volume leading experts in the field outline some of the most important varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, basing themselves on a broad range of literary and documentary sources, and advancing a number of innovative methodologies. Close attention is paid to the linguistic features that characterize these varieties, with in-depth discussions of lexical, morpho-syntactic, orthographic, and metrical variation, as well as the interrelationship between these different types of variation. The volume thus offers valuable insights into the nature of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, laying the foundation for future studies of linguistic variation in these later stages of the language, while at the same time providing a point of comparison for Classical Greek scholarship
£23.75
£118.79
De Gruyter Azuma Old Japanese
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£24.75
Bohlau Verlag Österreichisches Deutsch macht Schule: Bildung
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£44.28
Bohlau Verlag Zurück nach Erp: Individueller und
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£60.08
Harrassowitz Hessisches Jiddisch: Quellen Zur Sprache Der
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£71.25
Harrassowitz Arabic Dialectology: Methodology and Field
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£95.00
Harrassowitz Fluche Und Unfromme Wunsche in Der Arabischen
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£71.25
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Regiolekt - Der Neue Dialekt?: Akten Des 6.
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£96.90
Peter Lang GmbH Dialect and Migration in a Changing Europe
Book SynopsisIn the course of a general process of social modernization throughout Europe since the early modern period, a communicative modernization has also taken place. In this context, both horizontal mobility and the various forms of population shift connected with it have played a role. European sociolinguistic research has dealt with the various social reasons for these variety shifts and variety changes. These articles are compiled and edited for the first time in the submitted work.Table of ContentsContents: Klaus J. Mattheier: Introductory Remarks - Paul Kerswill/Ann Williams: Mobility Versus Social Class in Dialect Levelling: Evidence from New and Old Towns in England - Edgar Radtke: The Migration Factor and the Convergence and Divergence of Southern Italian Dialects - Juan Antonio Moya Corral: Migration et changement linguistique a Grenade (Espagne) - M. Teresa Turell: More on the Interplay Between Internal and External Factors: Dialect Convergence and Divergence of Catalan - Francisco Baez de Aguilar Gonzalez: Linguistic Changes in Modern Andalusia - David Britain/Peter Trudgill: Migration, Dialect Contact, New-Dialect Formation and Reallocation - Peter Auer/Birgit Barden/Beate Grosskopf: Long-Term Linguistic Accomodation and its Sociolinguistic Interpretation: Evidence from the Inner-German Migration After the Wende - Brit Maehlum: Strategies of Neutrality in the Arctic - John Helgander: Mobility and Language Change: The Case of Upper Dalarna, Sweden - H. Scholtmeijer: Language in the Dutch Polders: Why Dialects Did Not Mix - Hendrik Boeschoten: Convergence and Divergence in Migrant Turkish - Raphael Berthele: Divergence and Convergence in a Multilectal Classroom: Patterns of Group Structure and Linguistic Conformity - Yaron Matras: Migrations and 'Replacive Convergence' as Sources of Diversity in the Dialects of Romani - John B. Trumper/G. Chiodo: A Changing Europe: The Presence Versus Absence of Drastic Events Provoking or Blocking Internal Migration and Their Possible Contribution to Linguistic Change or Conservation. Part I: Reggio Calabria.
£47.16
Peter Lang AG Language Contact in the History of English
Book SynopsisMore than any other European language English has been shaped by its contacts with other languages such as Celtic, Latin, Scandinavian and French. This is true not only of the vocabulary, but also of morphology and even phonology and syntax. But also the contact between different varieties of English played an important role, especially in the shaping of the Englishes outside England. The papers contained in this volume deal with such contacts from various points of views. Major topics are: the restructuring of lexical fields by borrowing processes in Old, Middle and Early Modern English, the influence of Scandinavian on the morphology, the influence of Latin on English syntax, the development of Middle English verse meter under Italian influence, the origin of spelling conventions, the role of code-switching and language mixing for the development of the language, and the role of language contact in general in Central Europe.
£54.45
Peter Lang GmbH Rethinking Middle English: Linguistic and
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Peter Lang AG Introduction to the History of English
Book SynopsisThis book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information about language change and the Indo-European background of English, it gives an outline of the major periods of the language (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English), with a brief examination of the perspectives of present-day English. Each period chapter provides information about the socio-historical background, the core areas of linguistic structure, discourse, speech acts and genres, and concludes with study questions and exercises.Table of ContentsContents: Language change and language history – The Indo-European background of English – The periods of English (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English) – Perspectives on present-day English – Socio-historical background – Linguistic structure – Discourse – Speech acts and genres.
£23.13
Peter Lang AG Synchronic English Linguistics
Book SynopsisThis book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provides detailed descriptions of the different language levels: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and meaning in language (comprising semantics and pragmatics). Furthermore, one chapter deals with constructional approaches to English grammar. The final chapter serves as an outlook on the application of linguistic theory in various domains of language use, including historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and forensic linguistics. Every chapter contains specific exercises that help to rehearse the key concepts introduced in this book.Table of ContentsContents: Concise introduction to synchronic linguistics – Phonetics and phonology – Morphology – Syntax – Semantics – Pragmatics – Construction grammar.
£18.48
Peter Lang AG Metadiscourse in Middle English and Early Modern
Book SynopsisIn the last three decades, metadiscourse has caught the attention of numerous scholars from various research disciplines. This book adds to the discussion by looking at the phenomenon from a historical angle. Text analyses with a corpus of sermons and religious treatises from the 13th to the 18th century provide new insights into the way authors guide their audience through their texts and persuade them of their points of view. The focus on the Middle and Early Modern English periods, which witnessed the disintegration of the Catholic Church in England, the Reformation, the decline of Scholasticism and the advent of Renaissance Humanism, makes evident the influence of socio-cultural factors, text-type conventions, and a changing author-addressee relationship on the development of metadiscourse.Table of ContentsContents: Intertextual and intratextual metadiscourse – Speech-act theory – Personal and impersonal metadiscourse – Linguistic variation, vagueness, and multifunctionality – Historical development of metadiscourse in sermons, religious treatises, and in secular texts – Compiling a historical corpus of religious texts – The statistical analysis of metadiscourse.
£55.62
Peter Lang AG Grammaticalisation Paths of «Have» in English
Book SynopsisThis book explores the diachronic emergence of the verb have in English in its various grammatical uses. The development of grammatical functions of have is analysed from pragmatic-semantic, morphosyntactic and phonetic angles. Apart from the well-known and formerly studied cases of the rise of perfect and obligative have, the author describes the developments of the had better structure as well as causative have which have not received much scholarly attention thus far. He shows that the first examples of the fully grammaticalised constructions with have generally appear earlier than it is commonly believed. He also offers possible motivations behind the growth of obligative and causative have. This book proves that the changes leading to the rise of new grammatical constructions occur in a specific order: pragmatic-semantic changes precede morphosyntactic changes and phonetic reductions are the last to take place.Table of ContentsContents: Grammaticalisation theory – Semanticisation of have – Some cross-linguistic evidence from Polish – The rise of the had better structure – The grammaticalisation of obligative modal have to and (have) got to – The auxiliation of have in perfect construction – Along the possession-to-causation cline.
£61.56
Peter Lang AG The Storyteller’s Memory Palace: A Method of
Book SynopsisStorytelling and remembering rely on similar practices: they both arrange images in an ordered structure. A story is initially memorised by the author in a mental structure which is transferred to the page via the author’s choice of location, organisation and imagery. An interpretation that emphasises these features enhances the natural capacity for comprehension by mimicking the memory process. This study describes and uncovers memory systems (including the memory palace and the memory journey) in medieval texts. The ancient memory techniques are compared to cognitive psychology and used to interpret four modern novels. A practical method of interpretation is devised which provides the reader with direct access to a story by opening the door into the storyteller’s memory palace.Table of ContentsContents: Literary interpretation – The memory palace – Memory systems from Antiquity – The classical art of memory – Memory function – Cognitive psychology – Literary theory – Medieval epic poem – Medieval culture – The modern novel – Comparative study – Visualisation – Backgrounds and images.
£47.20
Peter Lang AG Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech:
Book SynopsisThis publication constitutes a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, held in Poznań, Poland. It consists of two volumes, presenting state-of-the-art achievements and perspectives for future research related to the acquisition of second language phonetics and phonology. The key issues include the development of explanatory frameworks of phonological SLA, the expanded scope of domains under investigation, modern methods applied in phonological research, and a new take on the causal variables related to ultimate proficiency in L2 speech. This first volume contains a selection of 27 articles that cover a wide variety of themes including L2 speech perception and production, segmental and prosodic features, as well as factors related to foreign accentedness, individual variability and ultimate achievement in the acquisition of speech.Table of ContentsContents: Cristina Aliaga-Garcia: Measuring perceptual cue weighting after training: A comparison of auditory vs. articulatory training methods – Walcir Cardoso: Teaching foreign sC onset clusters – Juli Cebrian/Joan C. Mora/Cristina Aliaga-Garcia: Assessing crosslinguistic similarity by means of rated dissimilarity and perceptual assimilation tasks – Eva Cerviño-Povedano/Joan C. Mora: Investigating Catalan-Spanish bilingual EFL learners’ over-reliance on duration: Vowel cue weighting and phonological short-term memory – Dina El-Dakhs: Lexical access in second language speech production: The case of Arabic-English bilinguals – Cheryl Frenck-Mestre/Pauline Peri/Christine Meunier/Robert Espesser: Perceiving non-native vowel contrasts: ERP evidence of the effect of experience – Anastasia Giannakopoulou/Maria Uther/Sari Ylinen: Phonetic cue-weighting in the acquisition of a second language (L2): Evidence from Greek speakers of English – Jian Gong/Martin Cooke/M. Luisa García Lecumberri: Towards a quantitative model of Mandarin Chinese perception of English consonants – Silke Hamann/Paul Boersma/Małgorzata Ćavar: Language-specific differences in the weighting of perceptual cues for labiodentals – Xuliang He/Vincent J. van Heuven/Carlos Gussenhoven: Choosing the optimal pitch accent location in Dutch by Chinese learners and native listeners – Sam Hellmuth: Accent distribution effects in L2 English: Causes and implications – Miyoko Inoue: Phonetic cues used by Swedish speaking learners in perception of Japanese quantity – Susan Jackson/John Archibald: Phonological representations and perception of L2 contrasts – Matthias Jilka/Natalie Lewandowska/Giuseppina Rota: Investigating the concept of talent in phonetic performance – Michal Kubánek/Václav Jonáš Podlipský: Does reliance on top-down cues in L2 speech perception change with growing experience? – Vladimir Kulikov: Features, cues, and syllable structure in the acquisition of Russian palatalization by L2 American learners – Mary O’Brien/Ulrike Gut: Phonological and phonetic realisation of different types of focus in L2 speech – Öner Özçelik: L2 acquisition of sentential stress: Implications for UG – Sandra Schwab/Joaquim Llisterri: The perception of Spanish lexical stress by French speakers: Stress identification and time cost – Geoff Schwartz: Avoiding stop insertion after English /ŋ/ - a representational solution – Helena Spilková/Wim A. van Dommelen: Function words in read and spontaneous speech produced by L2 and L1 speakers – Bruce L. Smith/Rachel Hayes-Harb: Speech production and speech perception by German speakers learning English as a second language – Laura Catharine Smith/Wendy Baker: Acquiring the high vowel contrast in Quebec French: How assibilation helps – Annelie Tuinman/Anne Cutler: L1 knowledge and the perception of casual speech processes in L2 – Ewa Waniek-Klimczak: Aspiration and style: A sociophonetic study of the VOT in Polish learners of English – Magdalena Wrembel/Andrzej Grzybowski: Reinvestigating sound-colour mappings in L1 and L2 vowel perception – Martha Young-Scholten: Development in L2 phonology: Another perspective on age.
£48.15
Peter Lang AG Obsolete Scandinavian Loanwords in English
Book SynopsisSo far, no comprehensive study of the obsolescence of Scandinavian loanwords in English has ever been published. This book remedies that situation, and presents an analysis of the causes of obsolescence of Scandinavian loanwords in English since the 15th century. The study has mainly been based on the Oxford English Dictionary and the Middle English Dictionary. Over 300 loanwords have been selected, grouped into semantic fields and analysed. To account for their disappearance, reasons such as the rivalry of synonyms, the exclusive use in local dialects, the disappearance of the referent as well as rare occurrence or phonological changes were investigated.Table of ContentsContents: Viking invasions – Scandinavian loanwords in English – Obsolescence of vocabulary – Rivalry between synonyms – Scandinavian vs. native vocabulary – Scandinavian vs. French loans.
£56.79
Peter Lang AG Betwixt «engelaunde» and «englene londe»:
Book SynopsisThis study explores the somewhat neglected area of dramatic genres of early English religious lyric and illuminates the functions of dialogue as an instrument of devotion and cognition in the context of medieval culture. The book focuses on short poems in dialogue form, semi-dialogic prayers and dramatic monologues, and alleged dialogic configurations of the lyrics, stressing their potential for performance. Devotional dialogues, as between Jesus and Mary, are shown to have the form of mutual begging, in accordance with the central medieval ritual of supplication. Dialogue as heteroglossia provides the basis for readings of selected prayers from Cædmon to Lydgate, highlighting a variety of cultural transactions involved in addressing heaven. Tracing the ways the poems overcome the limits of language in search of transcendent communication leads to insights into vernacular poetics and theology inherent in early English religious verse.Table of ContentsContents: Lyric Dialogues – Lyric Diptychs – Hymns – Prayers – Antiphons – Performance – Cultural Transactions – Architectural Imagery – Liturgy – Metaphysics of Communication – English Vernacular – Foreign Words – Musical Imagery – Ocular Speech – Christian and Marian Devotion – Imaginative Poetics and Theology – Godric – Herebert – Grimestone – Lydgate – Chaucer.
£38.70
Peter Lang AG The Structure of Chaucer’s Ambiguity
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on ambiguity in Troilus and Criseyde, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s (1343?-1400) representative works. It examines systematically how and why ambiguity is likely to arise. After reviewing previous scholarship on ambiguity in Chaucer, the author proposes a new theoretical framework, «double prism structure», incorporating the most recent findings in the area of semantics, pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics together with medieval rhetoric and allegory. Using this framework the book examines ambiguity due to textual domains, interpersonal domains and linguistic domains. Ambiguity in Chaucer has not been studied in sufficient detail so far. The work opens new vistas for the study of the phenomenon.Table of ContentsContents: Previous scholarship – Our point of view and method – Ambiguity in metatext – Ambiguity in intertextuality – Ambiguity in macro-textual structure – Ambiguity in reported speech – Ambiguity in discourse – Ambiguity in speaker’s intention – Ambiguity in modality – Ambiguity in syntax – Ambiguity in words – Ambiguity in voice.
£42.48
Peter Lang AG Of fair speche, and of fair answere
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznań (Poland) in November 2010. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of Old and Middle English language studies, from gender/declension shifts and historical English syntax to semantic field analysis.Table of ContentsContents: Elzbieta Adamczyk: Þære nihte or Þæs nihtes? On the interplay of gender shift and declension shift in Old English – Michael Bilynsky: The chronological width in the OED reconstruction of Middle English verbs and derivatives – Artur Bartnik: Dative resumptive pronouns in Old English Þe relatives – Jerzy Nykiel/Andrzej M. Łęcki: Toward a diachronic account of English prepositional subordinators expressing purpose: To the intent that – Magdalena Bator: The semantic field TASTE in Old and Middle English.
£19.85
Peter Lang AG Orthographic Systems in Thirteen Editions of the
Book SynopsisThis corpus-based study examines the orthographic systems in thirteen editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (1506–1656), a comprehensive compendium of prose and verse texts of different length and on a variety of subjects, for example, astronomy, agriculture, medicine, and religion. It focuses on the variation and consistency levels in the early-modern printers’ spelling practice, and evaluates the potential importance of extra-linguistic motivation for the identified regularising changes from the language authorities of the time, including lexicographers, spelling reformers, orthoepists, grammarians, and schoolmasters. Additionally, the book provides the reader with a brief overview of the printers’ punctuation, capitalisation, and word-division conventions, as well as with selected bibliographical and textual information concerning the publication history of the Kalender of Shepherdes.Table of ContentsContents: Early Modern English – Standardisation – Early printed books – Corpus linguistics – Orthography – Typography – Abbreviations – The distribution of graphemes – Vowel length indication – The reduction of homography – Morphological spelling – Etymological spelling.
£52.07
Peter Lang AG Words and Expressions of Emotion in Medieval
Book SynopsisThis monograph is a study of words and expressions of emotion found in Old and Middle English texts. Lexical variety, rivalry among synonyms, both native and non-native, and their successive replacement are discussed illustrated with a large number of examples. «Impersonal» and reflexive constructions, which give peculiar features to medieval texts, are examined, focusing on basic verbs of emotion. Words found in the Seven Deadly Sins and the contrasting use of the genitive and the of-phrase in God’s love and the love of God are treated as typical medieval themes. Appendices are added to illustrate the variant forms of these words and expressions in the versions of the Gospels and the Psalter, together with formulaic expressions of emotion in Old English poetry.Table of ContentsContents: Lexical Variety and Supersession – Synonyms in Some Semantic Fields of Emotion – God’s Love and the Seven Deadly Sins – «Impersonal» and Reflexive Constructions.
£55.62
Peter Lang AG Dialect Contact and Social Networks: Language
Book SynopsisThis book explores a dialect contact situation in a second language setting – native speakers of English coming to Japan from different parts of the world as English teachers. It focuses on an Anglophone community in which speakers are socially and geographically mobile and have loose-knit networks with speakers of different languages and dialects. This longitudinal sociolinguistic study aims to investigate the relatively short-term linguistic changes induced by frequent face-to-face interaction with speakers of different dialects and to illustrate the impact of social network effects. Statistical analyses reveal that the individual speakers’ interpersonal ties are important factors that influence the linguistic behaviour of the speakers in a dialect contact situation in an L2 setting.Trade Review«[Hirano’s book] is a very interesting, stringently planned and conducted study about an area which is little inverstigated to date. It is absolutely interesting for readers with previous knowledge in this field as well as for readers without such previous knowledge.» (Jana Neuhaus, Lingua 158, 2015)Table of ContentsContents: English Education and the Anglophone Community in Japan – Theoretical Background and Previous Research – Hypotheses and Research Questions – Linguistic Variables – Methodology – Results – Discussion of the Results of this Study.
£60.39
Peter Lang AG The Use and Development of Middle English:
Book SynopsisThe fourteen essays presented here discuss the development of English during the Middle English period: how the language developed from Old English, linguistic innovations, and the loss and abandonment of certain words and constructions. A common theme is variation and variability – dialectal, social, temporal, stylistic and idiolectal – with much work fitting under the heading of historical pragmatics. Some of the essays also shed light on everyday life, customs, culture and religious practices during the period. Collectively, the essays make it clear that searchable computerized corpora have become indispensible tools of the discipline, with several contributors describing new corpora created to their own specifications.Table of ContentsContents: Richard Dance/Laura Wright: Introduction – Javier Calle Martin/David Moreno Olalla: Body of evidence: Middle English annotated corpora and dialect atlases – Julia Fernández Cuesta/Luisa García García/J. Gabriel Amores Carredano: Compilation of an electronic corpus of northern English texts from Old to Early Modern English – Gabriella Mazzon: Now what? The analysis of Middle English discourse markers and advances in historical dialogue studies – Hans-Jürgen Diller: Ssoong on Ifaluk, ANGER and WRATH in Middle English: Historical Semantics as bridge-builder – Cynthia Allen: The Poss(essive) Det(erminer) construction in Early Middle English writings – Ewa Ciszek: The suffix -ish: Its semantic development and productivity in Middle English – María José Carrillo-Linares/Edurne Garrido-Anes: Lexical variation in late Middle English: Selection and deselection – Anna Wojtyś: The prefix y-: grammatical marker or meaningless appendage? A contrastive analysis of selected manuscripts of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales – Joanna Esquibel: Gratter cost, more grat zenne, þe more gratter torment: Comparison in Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt – Carole Hough: Names in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale – Nils-Lennart Johannesson: «Rihht alls an hunnte takeþþ der./Wiþþ hise ʒæpe racchess»: Hunting as a metaphor for proselytizing in the Ormulum – Mayumi Taguchi: Devotional terms and the use of the Bible in Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ – Nicolay Yakovlev: Metre and punctuation in the Caligula manuscript of Laʒamon’s Brut – Ad Putter: A prototype theory of metrical stress: Lexical categories and ictus in Langland, the Gawain-poet and other alliterative poets.
£52.07
Peter Lang AG Change in Life, Change in Language: A Semantic
Book SynopsisThis book provides the reader with a description of the semantic change that took place over two periods of the history of English language: Middle English and Early Modern English. In view of the fact that semantic change is the type of change by which the relationship between language and society can be traced best, notes on the socio-historical background of the period have been included. They are followed by the analysis of language change in general in which some of the literature on the topic is reviewed and the author’s interpretation of change as being caused by external factors is made clear. For this reason, terminology and concepts relating to the field of socio-historical linguistics have been incorporated in the analysis. The core of the work is semantic change and the linguistic study of vocabulary items which belong to the field of person-rank nouns. The results of the analysis indicate a tendency towards specialisation in the meaning of lexical categories which runs parallel to specialisation in society.Table of ContentsContents: Semantic change – Semantic change models – Semantic field – Componential analysis – Language change – Socio-historical Linguistics – Outer history – Inner history – Helsinki Corpus of English Texts.
£30.69
Peter Lang AG Recording English, Researching English,
Book SynopsisThis book presents new research results in English historical linguistics. Section I deals with sounds and spellings, e.g. the role of writing in language change, Pre-Old English sound changes and their reflection in runic inscriptions – plus the first complete list of OE runic inscriptions – and with velar fricatives in Middle English. Section II contains studies on words and phrases (e.g. the OE terms for the chain-mail coat), shell nouns, and secondary agent constructions. Section III highlights the developments of because, relative clauses, impersonal and passive constructions. Section IV analyzes the role of dialects in literature (e.g. 16th and 18th centuries). Section V sheds light on the use of early literature by later authors (e.g. J.R.R. Tolkien) and on Chinese translations of Beowulf.Table of ContentsContents: Trinidad Guzmán-González: Homo loquens, homo scribens: On the role of writing in language change, with special reference to English – Gaby Waxenberger: The reflection of pre-Old English sound changes in pre-Old English runic inscriptions – Jerzy Wełna: Middle English evidence of the elimination of velar fricatives: A prose corpus study – Carla Morini: The chain-mail coat terminology in Old-English and the dating of Beowulf – Kousuke Kaita: Old English geweald habban/āgan as a stylistic set phrase, compared with Old High German and Old Saxon cognates – Annette Mantlik: An etymological analysis of shell nouns – Nadĕžda Kudrnáčová: Secondary agent constructions from a diachronic perspective – Mary Blockley: Connectives before Chaucer: Conjunctive for and its competition in Early Middle English – Yuko Higashiizumi: A history of Because-clauses and the coordination-subordination dichotomy – Christina Suárez Gómez: The replacement of ϸe by ϸat in the history of English – Fuyo Osawa: Impersonal and passive constructions from a view-point of functional category emergence – Maria F. Garcia-Bermejo Giner: The southern dialect in Thomas Churchyard´s The Contention bettwixte Churchyearde and Camell (1552) – Julia Fernández Cuesta/Christopher Langmuir: Scoto-Cumbrian? The representation of dialect in the works of Josiah Relph and Susanna Blamire – John Insley: J. R: R: Tolkien and the historical study of English – Stella Wang: Cinese translations of Beowulf.
£63.90
Peter Lang AG The Old English Complex Plant Names: A Linguistic
Book SynopsisThis investigation is a qualitative analysis of the etymological, the morphological and the semantic history of the Old English complex plant names as a lexical field, and an in-depth study of the plant names as individual entities. Their particular interest results from the fact that they encode a wealth of information on the plants and their perception by the people, as well as on the psychological processes and the linguistic strategies that were used in the naming processes. Their analysis requires the interplay of various disciplines – morphology and word-formation, structural and cognitive semantics, and contact linguistics. As plant names enjoy a special status as natural kind terms, this study also touches upon questions of scientific and folk taxonomic structures, of botany, and of socio-cultural history.Table of ContentsContents: Old English complex plant names – Taxon, natural kind term, lexeme? – Plant world, plant names and the Anglo-Saxon medico-botanical texts – Folk taxonomy and scientific taxonomy – Morphology and word-formation – Semantics – Associative relations – Motivations – Diachronic stratification and the effects of language contact – Latin loan influence.
£74.66
Peter Lang AG English in Kenya or Kenyan English?
Book SynopsisThe book aims to recognize or reject English in Kenya as a new, emancipated variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language contact. It discusses in detail the sociolinguistic situation in contemporary Kenya based on Labov’s extra-linguistic parameters and the results of a customized survey carried out by the author in Kenya. Furthermore, it identifies and describes characteristic stylistic, lexical, morphological and syntactic features of English in Kenya on the basis of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The theoretical framework employs Schneider’s Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes and an effort is made to put the amount of variation found in the ICE into a wider context of other varieties of English around the world.Table of ContentsContents: History and status of English in Kenya – Language contact and its consequences – Multilingual Kenya and sociolinguistic parameters – International Corpus of English – Formality of English in Kenya – Kiswahili borrowings – Characteristic morphological and syntactic features – Postcolonial varieties of English.
£38.38
Peter Lang AG Aspectual Prefixes in Early English
Book SynopsisThis book primarily examines verbal prefixes expressing aspectuality in the Old and Middle English periods, but it also takes a look at the post-verbal particles in the subsequent periods of English. Verbal prefixes are also known as preverbs such as ge- in the Old English verb gegladian «cheer up» or ā- in the Old English verb āstreccan «stretch out». Prefixed verbs in Old English are said to be the functional equivalents and predecessors of phrasal verbs in Modern English. One of the aims of the research presented in this book was to consider how no longer productive Old English verbal prefixes such as ge-, ā- and for- were used in the past to express verbal aspect. In this study two avenues of research converge, one covering aspect, the other covering verbal prefixes and particles.Table of ContentsContents: How did Old and Middle English express verbal aspect by means of prefixes? – Aspects of aspect: aspect vs. Aktionsart – Aspect in Germanic and Slavic – Aspectual categories – Prefixed verbs and phrasal verbs – Preverb ā- – Preverb ge- – preverb for- – Perfectivizers – Lexicalization – Grammaticalization.
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Peter Lang AG Syntactic Dislocation in English Congregational
Book SynopsisA famous English hymn does not start with He who would be valiant, but He who would valiant be with valiant in dislocated position in the clause. The aim of this study is to analyse syntactic dislocation in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 and to examine its motivations and developments. Poetic factors, like metre and rhyme, can be assumed as primary causes. Moreover, two contrasting dislocation patterns emerge, which show the interplay of poetic requirements and syntactic criteria. The first pattern occurs mainly in metrical psalms, while the second pattern is typical of hymns. With these patterns as a basis of comparison, syntactic dislocation is a decisive factor that makes congregational song conservative both compared to secular poetry and to religious prose.Table of ContentsContents: Syntactic dislocation – English congregational song – Diachronic, corpus-based study – Syntax of English – Poetic factors – Metre and rhyme – Metrical psalms – Hymns – Religious verse – Statistics – Corpus linguistics – Text linguistics.
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Peter Lang AG Cognitive Explorations into Metaphor and Metonymy
Book SynopsisThis volume presents selected contributions to an annual symposium on metaphor and metonymy held at the English Department of Heidelberg University. It brings together papers by lecturers, PhD students and graduates from three universities – Heidelberg University, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The contributions illustrate the plurality of perspectives and methods in current cognitive-linguistic research on metaphor and metonymy and exemplify some of the ways in which they can be combined. The papers also attest to the wide range of domains and topics to which metaphor- and metonymy-based research can be applied, including emotion terms, political and scientific discourse, morphology, cross-cultural variation and internet communication.Table of ContentsContents: Zoltán Kövecses: Metaphor and metonymy in the conceptual system – Olga Pavpertova: Corpus-based analysis of conceptual metaphors of HAPPINESS in Russian and English – Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra: Feeling the taste of victory:The figurative utilization of the concepts MOUTH and TONGUE in English, German and Hungarian – Rebecca Netzel: Bewegungsmetaphorik im Lakota: Metaphorische Bewegungsverben und ihre Entsprechungen in europäischen Sprachen – Andreas Musolff: The metaphor of the «body politic» across languages and cultures – Orsolya Farkas: The concept of the STATE in Hungarian political discourse: Variations reflected in the language of the constitutions – Orsolya Putz: Metaphors on the territorial changes of post-Trianon Hungary – Nicole Möller: Cognitive metaphor and the «Arab Spring» – Alexandra Núñez: Wenn das «Embodiment» politisch wird: Das Image-Schema PATH und seine Realisierung im Mediendiskurs zum «Arabischen Frühling» – Katrin Strobel: EMOTIONAL VALUE metaphors: A new class of INTEREST metaphors in advertising Carmen Simon: Metaphor, metonymy, and brands: From INTEREST metaphors to INTEREST metonymies – Ágnes Kuna: The conception of diseases in the persuasive sections of Hungarian medical recipes from the 16th and 17th centuries – Réka Szabó: Kognitive Metaphern in der Jungschen Psychotherapie – Frank Polzenhagen: What did 18th-century grammarians know about grammaticalisation? Notes on the early history of a current idea – Sonja Kleinke: Kohärenz und Metonymie: Zitierpraktiken in öffentlichen Internetdiskussionsforen – Stefanie Vogelbacher: «WTF is ‹helicopter parenting› »? Metaphor commenting and negotiation in an online debate at BBC Being a parent – Lisa Vollmar: Culture-specific metonymic relations in the conceptual system: On cognitive linguistic attitude research – Mario Brdar/Rita Brdar-Szabó: Croatian place suffixations in -ište: Polysemy and metonymy.
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Peter Lang AG Writing from the Margins of Europe: The
Book SynopsisThe application of postcolonial theories to Irish literature remains a contentious issue. Unlike other colonised nations, Ireland shared a long history of political, economic and artistic ties with its empire-building neighbour, Britain. Yet the Irish response to the project of British imperialism bears comparison with postcolonial models of the relationship between colonisers and the colonised. Writing from the Margins of Europe assesses the potential for postcolonial analysis of works by W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and James Joyce. In this exploration of postcolonial parallels between these writers, the author focuses on four core issues: historiography, nationalism, language and displacement.Table of ContentsContents: Postcolonial theories – W. B. Yeats – J. M. Synge – James Joyce – Historiography – Nationalism – Language – Displacement – Coloniser and Colonised – Postcolonial Parallels.
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Peter Lang AG Culinary verbs in Middle English
Book SynopsisThis study examines the range of culinary verbs found in the English culinary recipes of the 14th and 15th centuries. Altogether over 1500 recipes have been collected and over 100 verbs were selected for the research. They have been divided into three major semantic groups, i.e. verbs of cooking, cutting, and preparing. The analysis comprises such aspects as the origin of the verbs, rivalry of synonyms, context of usage and other criteria.Table of ContentsContents: 14th century – 15th century – Culinary recipes – Culinary Verbs – Middle English – Semantic groups – Synonyms.
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Peter Lang AG Approaches to Middle English: Variation, Contact
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murcia in 2013. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a particular interest in multilingualism, multidialectalism and language contact in medieval England, together with other more linguistically-oriented approaches on the phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics and pragmatics of Middle English. The volume gives a specialized stance on various aspects of the Middle English language and reveals how the interdisciplinary confluence of different approaches can shed light on manifold evidences of variation, contact and change in the period.Table of ContentsContents: Multilingualism and multidialectalism in medieval England – Language contact in Middle English – Language variation and change in Middle English – Middle English morphology and syntax – Middle English semantics and pragmatics.
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Peter Lang AG Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers is a gift for all the members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, who worked abroad under the direction of British, European and American medievalists or greatly influenced by those scholars as guests of the Society. Six papers in this book tell parts of their special fields of study: Aldred the Northumbrian scribe, Old English glosses, the Exeter Book, source studies of Old English homilies, Old English Boethius and Judgement Day II. As one of their students and a former president of the Society, the editor adds the last paper on Old English syntax.Table of ContentsContents: Eric G. Stanley: Aldred among the West Saxons: Bamburgh, and What bebbisca Might Mean – Fred C. Robinson: The Rewards and Perplexities of Old English Glosses – Jane Roberts: A Context for the Exeter Book: some suggestions but no conclusions – Joyce Hill: Mapping the Anglo-Saxon Intellectual Landscape: The Risks and Rewards of Source-Study – Paul E. Szarmach: The Old English Boethius as a Book of Nature – Graham D. Caie: Doomsday and Nature in the Old English Poem Judgement Day II – Michiko Ogura: Two Syntactic Notes on Old English Grammar.
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Peter Lang AG «Sawles Warde» and the Wooing Group: Parallel
Book SynopsisThis volume completes the first uniform edition of the Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse Group. It contains Sawles Warde from the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group of lyrical meditations. These works, originally written for devout women, are of unusual literary and linguistic interest. The readings of all the manuscripts are printed in parallel for easy comparison, presenting the various versions of the Wooing Group in a more cohesive form than in existing editions. Paleographical and textual notes are provided, along with frequency wordlists and a selection of notes from an unpublished edition by E. J. Dobson.Table of ContentsContents: Early Middle English language and literature – Literature for women – The Ancrene Wisse Group – Sawles Warde – The Wooing Group – Diplomatic parallel texts – Frequency wordlists.
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Peter Lang AG Chaucer’s Choices: Through the looking-glass of
Book SynopsisThe monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, «Knight’s Tale» and «Troilus and Criseyde». The study highlights the significance of the continuity of imagery in language and material culture for cultural transmission, providing insights into the relation between Chaucer’s linguistic usage and the late medieval symbolic tradition. Undertaken within the Cognitive Linguistic framework, the research indicates the usefulness of adopting a panchronic perspective on the development of language and culture.Table of ContentsContents: Sociocultural situatedness of the language user – Idiosyncrasy of human cognition – Panchrony: Towards extended humanity – Language as a memory medium – Imagery of necessite in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight’s Tale.
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Peter Lang AG Proceedings of Methods XVI: Papers from the
Book SynopsisMethods in Dialectology is a venerable institution, having started in 1972 in London, Western Ontario, Canada. This book is a collection of papers presented at Methods XVI in Tachikawa, Japan, in 2017. It was the first time Methods took place in Asia. In this volume, the emphasis is on diverse methods and diverse research questions. Many of the papers focus on language innovation, language change, corpus studies and linguistic atlas from different perspectives. At the same time, methodological innovation is very much in focus. Its emphasis meant that several papers showcased cutting-edge quantitative techniques that allow dialectologists to address questions that had been thought impossible to answer only a few years ago.Table of ContentsKatharina Pabst, Lex Konnelly, Melanie Rothlisberger, and Sali A. Tagliamonte: Individual- vs. community-level variation: New evidence from variable (t,d) in Canadian English ● Akiko Okumura: Variation and change in a Japanese new town: Production and perception of variable (ng) ● Hajime Oshima: Innovative possessive marker in the Burgenland dialect of Hungarian in Austria ● Chingduang Yurayong: Postposed demonstrative: An innovation from contact between North Russian and Central Veps dialects ● Jos Swanenberg: Does dialect loss give more or less variation?: On dialect leveling and language creativity ● Kazuko Matsumoto: Nativisation in adolescent Palauan English: A discourse-pragmatic perspective ● Rika Ito: But I’m embarrassed!: The representation of Hokkaido dialect in the Japanese anime, Silver Spoon ● Keiko Hirano and David Britain: Accommodation and social networks: Grammatical variation among expatriate English speakers in Japan ● Heike Wiese: Language situations: A method for capturing variation within speakers’ repertoires ● Kevin Heffernan: The diffusion of lexical bundles from an urban center to a rural community in Japan ● Harumi Mitsui, Kanetaka Yarimizu, and Motoei Sawaki: The structure of diversified language usage in metropolitan Tokyo: Analyses using large-scale database for word accent ● Mihoko Kubota: Different paths in the acquisition of Japanese negative words meaning prohibition: Dame in the standard form and akan in the western dialect ● Kazuko Tanabe: Analysis of the transmission of reference honorifics in the Japanese household ● Salvatore Carlino: The state of dialect usage and transmission in Iheya ● Marjatta Palander: Change in spoken Finnish: The dialect of 7-year-olds of two generations ● Brian Jose: A real-time perspective on the Southern vowel shift in Kentuckiana ● Nobuko Kibe, Kumiko Sato, Taro Nakanishi, and Kohei Nakazawa: Corpus-based study of Japanese dialects: Regional differences in accusative case marking system ● Hitoshi Nikaido: The speaking style of elderly assembly members in the Fukuoka prefectural assembly ● Kenjiro Matsuda: The birth and diffusion of group languages in the National Diet ● Suguru Kawase: Regional differences in conjunctives in the minutes of local assemblies ● Stephen Levey and Heike Pichler: Revisiting transatlantic relatives: Evidence from British and Canadian English ● Martin Schweinberger: Using semantic vector space models to investigate lexical replacement: A corpus-based study of ongoing changes in intensifier use ● Chihkai Lin: Pazeh-Kaxabu affinity revisited: from a corpus-based approach ● Yuji Kawaguchi: Standardization and distance: A case study of the linguistic atlas of Champagne and Brie (ALCB) ● Jung-min Li and Hsiao-feng Cheng: A geolinguistic study on Taiwanese in the west coast of Taiwan using ‘Glottograms’ ● Hiroyuki Suzuki and Lozong Lhamo: ‘Where’ as a negative prefix in Khams Tibetan: A geolinguistic approach towards a grammaticalisation process
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Peter Lang AG The Dialect of Polish Spoken in Cruz Machado,
Book Synopsis The Polish language was brought to Brazil by Polish-speaking peasants who came to the New World in the late 19th and early 20th century. Since then, the language has been developing in relative isolation from the European Polish context. In this monograph, the author focuses on a dialect of Polish still spoken in a remote community in the south of Brazil. The dialect’s origins, history, and present character are investigated to portray the language as a result of a multilingual process with a specific starting point. On the basis of the original data recorded in the community, the author establishes a viable baseline for future in-depth studies of linguistic phenomena. She pays special attention to the distinct identity of the speakers, which mirrors the dialect’s distinct character. Table of ContentsList of abbreviations - Introduction - Chapter 1: Polish- speaking settlements in the Brazilian interior - Chapter 2: Heritage of bilingualism - Chapter 3: A language in contact or a contact language? - Chapter 4: Methodological proceedings - Chapter 5: The speakers and their language - Chapter 6: Questions, answers, and more questions - Conclusion - Sources - Appendix A: Other narratives from Cruz Machado - Appendix B: Declaration of the municipal authorities - List of tables - List of figures
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Peter Lang AG Hoefische Dichtersprache. Gemeinsprachliche
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Regionalitaet in Johann Jakob Bodmers
Book SynopsisDer Schweizer Literaturkritiker Johann Jakob Bodmer (16981783) befasste sich fünf Jahrzehnte lang damit, seine Übersetzung des epischen Gedichtes Paradise Lost (1667) von John Milton (16081674) verbessernd zu überarbeiten. Das Buch geht der Frage nach, welche Bearbeitungen Bodmer von Auflage zu Auflage vornahm und inwiefern er seine sprachtheoretischen Konzeptionen in den verschiedenen Überarbeitungen in die Praxis umsetzte. Bodmers Lexeme werden unter Berücksichtigung der diatopischen, diachronen und diastratisch-diaphasischen Dimensionen mithilfe verschiedener Wörterbücher und zeitgenössischer deutscher Übersetzungen überprüft. Die Studie zeigt auf, wie sich die Gewichtung der von Bodmer im Revisionsprozess gewählten Stildimension verschoben hat.
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Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH Language Contact and Language Policies Across
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