Studies in the Evolution of the English Language

The present volume is a monographic study devoted to selected aspects of English historical phonology, orthography, syntax, morphology and semantics. It is the result of international cooperation of scholars affiliated with various academic institutions in the world.

Autorentext

Robert Kieltyka is Professor at the University of Rzeszów, Poland, and head of the Department of Historical and Contemporary English and Contrastive Linguistics. His main areas of research includes historical linguistics (diachronic semantics), cognitive linguistics (especially metaphor-metonymy interface) and word-formation.

Inhalt

spelling variation writing system element theory lenition headedness reconstruction vocalization lateral diphthongization consonant-vowel interactions quantitative analysis k-means clustering corpus historical linguistics multiple negation grammaticalization scrambling syntactic structure deviations information structure ambiguities constructionalization semantic change analogy partitive genitive analogical targeting obsolescence non-morphemic change reinterpretation libfixing clipping blending polysemy borrowing French loanwords word-formation neoclassical combining forms