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SLCS 208
Agreement in Language Contact
Gender development in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Florian Dolberg
June 2019. xxi, 351 pp.
Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English onwards. While either system is well described and understood, the... read more
VEAW G64
Bermudian English
A sociohistorical and linguistic profile
Nicole Eberle
May 2021. xv, 231 pp.
Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the... read more
NSS 32
The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic
A linguistic and cultural study
Robert Mailhammer and Theo Vennemann
October 2019. xiii, 268 pp.
This book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems in the history of Germanic with critical implications for cultural history: the... read more
SCL 96
Corpora and the Changing Society
Studies in the evolution of English
Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola
April 2020. xii, 305 pp.
This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be... read more
SCL 91
Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse
Edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente
February 2019. vii, 294 pp.
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus... read more
CILT 346
Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax
Edited by Claudia Claridge and Birte Bös
May 2019. vi, 312 pp.
Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The... read more
P&bns 317
The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena
Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English
Edited by Matti Peikola and Birte Bös
November 2020. vii, 313 pp.
This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing. It aims at developing a more comprehensive historical... read more
Z 227
Historical Linguistics
A cognitive grammar introduction
Margaret E. Winters
May 2020. xvii, 241 pp.
This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics.... read more
CILT 350
Historical Linguistics 2017
Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017
Edited by Bridget Drinka
July 2020. xi, 495 pp.
The collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic... read more
Z 183
A History of the English Language
Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
April 2014. xx, 338 pp.
The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most... read more
Z 195
How to do Linguistics with R
Data exploration and statistical analysis
Natalia Levshina
November 2015. xi, 443 pp.
This book provides a linguist with a statistical toolkit for exploration and analysis of linguistic data. It employs R, a free software environment for statistical computing, which is increasingly popular among... read more
AHS 10
Keeping in Touch
Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world
Edited by Raymond Hickey
November 2019. x, 289 pp.
The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a focus on... read more
SLCS 214
Late Modern English
Novel encounters
Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
March 2020. vii, 359 pp.
The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in... read more
Z 221
Late Modern English Medical Texts
Writing medicine in the eighteenth century
. Including the LMEMT Corpus
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen
December 2019. xix, 432 pp., incl. CD-RoM
The eighteenth century in medicine is a fallow period lying between the innovations of the Royal Society (1662–) with its new ways of doing science and the nineteenth-century achievements of clinical and laboratory... read more
SLCS 218
Lost in Change
Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions
Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban
June 2021. vi, 366 pp.
While research on language change has formulated robust empirical generalisations about processes and motivations underlying the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline and loss is less well understood. So far... read more
P&bns 312
Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English
Literary and linguistic approaches
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
August 2020. viii, 298 pp.
This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners... read more
CAL 27
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Elena Smirnova
May 2020. vi, 355 pp.
This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional... read more
CILT 347
Norms and Conventions in the History of English
Edited by Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge
May 2019. v, 215 pp.
This volume explores changing norms and conventions in the English language, as displayed in a broad range of historical data from more than five centuries. The contributions discuss the interplay of sociocultural conditions,... read more
AHS 8
Patterns of Change in 18th-century English
A sociolinguistic approach
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
September 2018. xi, 311 pp.
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The... read more
P&bns 299
Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Edited by Annick Paternoster and Susan Fitzmaurice
January 2019. vii, 288 pp.
This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of... read more
SILV 21
Processes of Change
Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English
Edited by Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers
August 2019. vii, 263 pp.
The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic... read more
AHS 11
Records of Real People
Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
December 2020. ix, 310 pp.
English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people... read more
NSS 31
Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic
Elżbieta Adamczyk
April 2018. xxvii, 572 pp.
The book is a comprehensive corpus study of analogical developments in the nominal morphology of four Northern West Germanic languages: Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon and Old Low Franconian. It examines the patterns of... read more
Z 228
Visual Linguistics with R
A practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics
Christoph Rühlemann
July 2020. ix, 258 pp.
This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization. Its primary aim is to introduce R as a research instrument in quantitative Interactional Linguistics. Focusing on... read more
SCL 97
Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts
In honor of Merja Kytö
Edited by Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson
October 2020. xiii, 348 pp.
This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While previous works on the topic have focused on more limited time periods,... read more
Z 225
Writing History in Late Modern English
Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
October 2019. vii, 278 pp.
This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing in late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of... read more
Z 237
“All families and genera”
Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
September 2021. xv, 310 pp.
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late Modern English. This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of the... read more