Toto vydanie predstavuje komplexný úvod do pokročilých tém historickej lingvistiky. Každý zväzok sa zameriava na kľúčové podoblasti odboru a demonštruje jeho bohatú empirickú bázu a teoretické perspektívy. Séria je navrhnutá tak, aby vysvetlila, ako lingvisti skúmajú jazykové zmeny, a je prístupná pre pokročilých študentov aj začínajúcich postgraduálnych študentov. Ponúka diskurzívny a kriticky angažovaný pohľad na odbor.
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.