Cette série offre une introduction complète à des sujets avancés en linguistique historique. Chaque volume explore des sous-domaines clés de la discipline, mettant en valeur sa riche base empirique et ses perspectives théoriques. Conçue pour expliquer comment les linguistes abordent le changement linguistique, elle est accessible aux étudiants de licence avancés comme aux étudiants de master débutants. La collection offre une perspective discursive, explicative et critique sur le domaine.
This textbook invites the student to explore early English syntax by looking at the linguistic characteristics of well- known texts throughout the early history of English. It shows how that piece of the language fits in to the broader picture of how English is developing and introduces the student to the real writing of the period.
Is it dived or dove? Dwarfs or dwarves? If the best students aced the test, did the prettygood students beece it? This book is designed to help readers make sense of morphological change and, more generally, of the concept of analogy and its role in language and in human cognition.