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A Historical Morphology of English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced)

Dieter Kastovsky

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Description:This introduction to English inflectional and derivational morphology shows how language change is more systematic if looked at from a long-range perspective than short-term changes might suggest. The author makes such long-range developments visible and shows how the interaction between phonology and morphology gradually leads to a typological restructuring of the morphological system.Since language is constantly changing, every synchronic stage will necessarily contain remnants of a previous stage. Existing historical descriptions tend to emphasise this retrospective aspect. Thus, there is a tendency to interpret Old English in terms of its Germanic or even Indo-European origin, and Middle English in terms of its Old English predecessor. This book focuses more strongly on ongoing morphological reanalyses and will therefore also look at what English will eventually become rather than simply where it came from. The first chapter will discuss the morphology of Modern English as the point of arrival of the historical development that will make up the rest of the book. This is followed by a chapter on the basic morphological properties of Indo-European as far as these are relevant for the understanding of the historical development as the point of departure, and subsequent chapters are arranged chronologically: Germanic, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Historical Morphology of English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced). To get started finding A Historical Morphology of English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 256

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Release: 2013

ISBN: 0748636862

Description: This introduction to English inflectional and derivational morphology shows how language change is more systematic if looked at from a long-range perspective than short-term changes might suggest. The author makes such long-range developments visible and shows how the interaction between phonology and morphology gradually leads to a typological restructuring of the morphological system.Since language is constantly changing, every synchronic stage will necessarily contain remnants of a previous stage. Existing historical descriptions tend to emphasise this retrospective aspect. Thus, there is a tendency to interpret Old English in terms of its Germanic or even Indo-European origin, and Middle English in terms of its Old English predecessor. This book focuses more strongly on ongoing morphological reanalyses and will therefore also look at what English will eventually become rather than simply where it came from. The first chapter will discuss the morphology of Modern English as the point of arrival of the historical development that will make up the rest of the book. This is followed by a chapter on the basic morphological properties of Indo-European as far as these are relevant for the understanding of the historical development as the point of departure, and subsequent chapters are arranged chronologically: Germanic, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Historical Morphology of English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced). To get started finding A Historical Morphology of English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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