If one looks at English over the 1500 years of its attested development then certain changes are immediately obvious. From a point of view of typology there is something which obviously needs to be explained in the history of English, namely the rate at which the language has changed from a synthetic language with a complicated system of inflections in the nominal and verbal area to a
1noThis book is a systematic analysis of a series of changes in key distinct areas of nominal syntax...
The paper examines the issue of reasons and mechanism of diachronic changes in the English language....
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescr...
In the course of its history, English has undergone dramatic changes. Some of these changes can argu...
The present paper presents the state of the art of research related to hypothesized changes from abo...
In historical language scholarship, it has been usual to assume that The transmission of language fr...
Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historic...
This paper examines modifications in the phonotactic system of English, as attested in changes that ...
A language goes through greater and smaller modifications. The historical events play an important ...
In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offe...
In recent years, language contacts have been considered one of the main causes for language change (...
This paper examines modifications in the phonotactic system of English, as attested in changes that ...
The English language has a well-documented history which can be traced back over twelve hundred year...
A contemplation of the emergence of World Englishes is essentially a contemplation of the phenomenon...
Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who se...
1noThis book is a systematic analysis of a series of changes in key distinct areas of nominal syntax...
The paper examines the issue of reasons and mechanism of diachronic changes in the English language....
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescr...
In the course of its history, English has undergone dramatic changes. Some of these changes can argu...
The present paper presents the state of the art of research related to hypothesized changes from abo...
In historical language scholarship, it has been usual to assume that The transmission of language fr...
Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historic...
This paper examines modifications in the phonotactic system of English, as attested in changes that ...
A language goes through greater and smaller modifications. The historical events play an important ...
In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offe...
In recent years, language contacts have been considered one of the main causes for language change (...
This paper examines modifications in the phonotactic system of English, as attested in changes that ...
The English language has a well-documented history which can be traced back over twelve hundred year...
A contemplation of the emergence of World Englishes is essentially a contemplation of the phenomenon...
Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who se...
1noThis book is a systematic analysis of a series of changes in key distinct areas of nominal syntax...
The paper examines the issue of reasons and mechanism of diachronic changes in the English language....
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescr...