{"product_id":"recording-english-researching-english-transforming-english-9783631642238","title":"Recording English, Researching English,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Trinidad Guzmán-González: \u003ci\u003eHomo loquens, homo scribens\u003c\/i\u003e: 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 \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e – Kousuke Kaita: Old English \u003ci\u003egeweald habban\/āgan\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e and its competition in Early Middle English – Yuko Higashiizumi: A history of \u003ci\u003eBecause\u003c\/i\u003e-clauses and the coordination-subordination dichotomy – Christina Suárez Gómez: The replacement of \u003ci\u003eϸe\u003c\/i\u003e by \u003ci\u003eϸat\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Contention bettwixte Churchyearde and Camell (1552) – \u003c\/i\u003eJulia Fernández Cuesta\/Christopher Langmuir: Scoto-Cumbrian? The representation of dialect in the works of Josiah Relph and Susanna Blamire –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eJohn Insley: J. R: R: Tolkien and the historical study of English –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eStella Wang:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eCinese translations of\u003ci\u003e Beowulf\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044252549463,"sku":"9783631642238","price":63.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631642238.jpg?v=1750961025","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/recording-english-researching-english-transforming-english-9783631642238","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}