Esta serie ofrece una introducción exhaustiva a temas avanzados de lingüística histórica. Cada volumen profundiza en subcampos clave de la disciplina, mostrando su rica base empírica y perspectivas teóricas. Diseñada para explicar cómo los lingüistas abordan el cambio lingüístico, es accesible tanto para estudiantes avanzados como para posgraduados principiantes. La colección ofrece una perspectiva discursiva, explicativa y críticamente comprometida sobre el campo.
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.