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Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] : Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics : Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421-1503)

Paperback • 2011 • English

Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] : Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics : Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421-1503)

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 pronouns by borrowed pronouns, the introduction and spread of the relativizers, and the spread and routinization of light verb constructions (take, make, give...Show more

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ISBN

9783110183108

Publisher

Munchen, DEU : De Gruyter Mouton

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] : Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics : Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421-1503)

Format

Paperback

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