This series offers a comprehensive introduction to advanced topics in historical linguistics. Each volume delves into key subfields of the discipline, showcasing its rich empirical base and theoretical perspectives. Designed to explain how linguists approach language change, it is accessible to advanced undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike. The collection provides a discursive, explanatory, and critically engaged perspective on the field.
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.