The Handbook of the History of English

• Author(s): Ans van Kemenade, Bettelou Los,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 672
• ISBN_10: 0470756802
  ISBN_13: 9780470756805
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / General ,

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The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language.

• organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems
• surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology
• offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research