Consonant Change in English Worldwide

D Schreier

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier ... Lees meer

Changes in Complementation in British and American English

J Rudanko

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, ... Lees meer

Consonant Change in English Worldwide

D Schreier

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier ... Lees meer

The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism

A Auer

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. A clos... Lees meer

Changes in Complementation in British and American English

J Rudanko

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• Arguing that a corpus-based approach is indispensable for the study of changes of complementation in British and American English, the author examines... Lees meer

Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew

G Zuckermann

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the last century. It has responded to the new social and technological demands of globalization... Lees meer

Diachronic Change in the English Passive

J Toyota

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• In this volume on the historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with ... Lees meer

Phonological Weakness in English

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• A uniquely focused collection addressing the identification, functional properties, and broader consequences of phonological weakness over a broad chr... Lees meer

Diachronic Change in the English Passive

J Toyota

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its r... Lees meer

The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism

A Auer

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• List of Figures List of Tables Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction Eighteenth-Century English Grammars and the Subjunctive Mood The Subjunctive... Lees meer

Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew

G Zuckermann

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the course of the twentieth century. It has responded to the social demands of the newly emergi... Lees meer

Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion

B Phillips

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• This study of word frequency effects on sound change provides a resolution of the Neogrammarian controversy. Betty S. Phillips discusses the implicati... Lees meer

Variation and Morphosyntactic Change in Greek

P Pappas

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• This book deals with some of the major theoretical and descriptive concerns of the historical linguist. The author presents a variationist analysis of... Lees meer