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Medieval English and Its Heritage: Structure, Meaning and Mechanisms of Change

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Medieval English and its Heritage: Structure, Meaning and Mechanisms of Change - Fisiak, Jacek, and Ritt, Nikolaus (Editor), and Schendl, Herbert (Editor)
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The volume features new work in English historical linguistics. It focuses on Medieval Englishes, but also discusses how processes originating there continued to unfold in later stages of linguistic evolution. In language internal terms, it deals with phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic constituents. At the same time, cognitive, pragmatic and social factors are taken into account. All contributions go back to papers delivered at the 13th International Conference of English Historical Linguistics, held at ...

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Medieval English and its Heritage: Structure, Meaning and Mechanisms of Change 2006, Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt a.M.

ISBN-13: 9783631550069

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