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ICEHL 21 (ICEHL 2021)

Leiden, Netherlands, 7-11 June 2021

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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

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

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