Studies in the History of the English Language VI By Michael Adams, Laurel J. Brinton, R.D. Fulk
2014 | 337 Pages | ISBN: 3110345919 | PDF | 6 MB
2014 | 337 Pages | ISBN: 3110345919 | PDF | 6 MB
The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume—which ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora—challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.