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Publication details [#30475]

Winters, Margaret E. 2002. On choosing a theory: a diachronic case study. Language & Communication 22 (2) : 113–129.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | form | function | linguistics

Language as a subject

English, Old

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper explores the history of a later Old English construction by comparing a functional and a formal approach to its analysis. A proposal is put forward on the way in which practicing linguists make a choice between competing theoretical stances.