English Linguistics
Laura Wright (Ed.)
Peter J. Grund, Megan E. Hartman (Eds.)
Robert Mailhammer
THE MULTILINGUAL ORIGINS OF STANDARD ENGLISH
STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE VIII
ENGLISH ON CROKER ISLAND
Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in the History of English
This book presents the first description of English spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia, in terms of its history, linguistic features and connections to local Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island shows significant variation and embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact situation, both of which challenge existing models of variation and language contact.
In Part One (the Orthodox Version) the contributors to this volume show how monolingual explanations of the origins of Standard English are incorrect. Part Two (the Revised Version) provides an alternative sociolinguistic, multilingual history, where it is argued that English came to take over the roles, registers and written conventions of Anglo-Norman French, and that standardisation was the result of fourteenth-century socioeconomic shift. Standardisation of English; Medieval Multilingualism; Historical Sociolinguistics
Laura Wright, University of Cambridge, UK. Collection, English, 3rd quarter 2020
Series Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 107 545 pp., 114 fig. HC RRP € 119.95 / *US$ 137.99 / *£ 109.00 ISBN 978-3-11-068751-4 eBook RRP € 119.95 / *US$ 137.99 / *£ 109.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-068754-5 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-068757-6
This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. Rather than taking one particular theoretical or methodological approach to boundaries, the authors explore how analyzing various types of boundaries – linguistic, conceptual, analytical, generic, physical – helps us study, illuminate, and account for historical use, variation, and change in English. History of the English Language; Corpus Linguistics; Boundaries; Empirical
Peter J. Grund, & Megan E. Hartman, University of Kansas, USA. Collection, English, 4th quarter 2020
The Synchronic and Diachronic Dynamics of Contact and Variation
Australian Aboriginal English; Language Contact; World Englishes; Australian Languages
Robert Mailhammer, Sydney, Australia. Monograph, English, 1st quarter 2021
Series Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 109 Approx. 300 pp., 10 fig., 103 Examples,
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HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00
Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 108
ISBN 978-3-11-070775-5
eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00
294 pp., 20 fig.
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-070785-4
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ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-070794-6
ISBN 978-3-11-062725-1 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-064328-2 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-063985-8
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