Free Download Kristian A. Rusten, "’Ye whom the charms of grammar please’: Studies in English Language History in Honour of Leiv Egil Breivik "
English | ISBN: 3034317794 | 2014 | 411 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This collection of articles by colleagues and students of Leiv Egil Breivik presents studies within both core and peripheral areas of English historical linguistics. Core topics covered include the development of existential there and related phenomena, word order, the evolution of adverbials, null subjects from Old to Early Modern English, pragmatics and information structure and aspects of discourse. Contributors also address the emergence of new syntactic constructions in the past and present, language contact and aspects of style in Early Modern English letters and medical texts. The ideological discourses of children’s dictionaries and medieval letters of defence are also explored.
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