Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics: Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421-1503)

(Book #51 in the Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Series)

by Alexander Bergs

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The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view. In the three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English h-> pronouns by borrowed th-> pronouns, the introduction and spread of the wh-> relativizers, and the spread...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3110183102

ISBN13:9783110183108

Release Date:February 2005

Publisher:de Gruyter Mouton

Length:330 Pages

Weight:1.33 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Age Range:22 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary

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Foreign Language Foreign Language Learning Foreign Language Study Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages Language Arts

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Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics: Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421-1503)

(Book #51 in the Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Series)

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