Multilingualism, Social Network Theory, and Linguistic Change in the Transition from Old to Middle English

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[Topics in English Linguistics] Studies in the History of the English Language V Volume 68 (Variation and Change in English Grammar and Lexicon: Contemporary Approaches) || Survival of the Strongest: Strong Verb Inflection from Old to Modern English

✍ Cloutier, Robert A.; Hamilton-Brehm, Anne Marie; Kretzschmar, Jr., William A. 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 DE GRUYTER MOUTON 🌐 German ⚖ 133 KB

This collection of essays focuses on current approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon. Of the twelve papers in the collection, half are based on grammar and syntax, half on lexical developments. The volume highlights the contributions that strong empirical researc