Overview

Although focusing on different linguistic phenomena from different theoreatical perspectives, this volume centres on how linguistic analysis of an older language may depend crucially on variable properties of the textual data themselves.

Full Product Details

Author:   Susan C. Herring (University of Texas, Arlington) ,  Pieter van Reenen (Free University, Amsterdam) ,  Lene Schøsler (University of Copenhagen)
Publisher:   Benjamins (John) North America Inc.,US
Imprint:   Benjamins (John) North America Inc.,US
Volume:   195
Weight:   0.970kg
ISBN:  

9781556199738

ISBN 10:   1556199732
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   23 January 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

Table of Contents

1. THEORETICAL OVERVIEW; 2. On Textual Parameters and Older Languages (by Herring, Susan C.); 3. Methodologies and Ideologies in Historical Linguistics: On working with older languages (by Fleischman, Suzanne); 4. TEXT TYPE; 5. The Pragmatic Functions of the Old French Particles AINZ, APRES, DONC, LORS, OR, PUIS, and SI (by Reenen, Pieter van); 6. Discourse Organization and Anaphora in Latin (by Bolkestein, A. Machtelt); 7. The Importance of Discourse Types in Grammaticalization: The case of anon (by Brinton, Laurel J.); 8. POETICALITY; 9. Genre, Discourse, and Syntax in Early Indo-European, with Emphasis on Sanskrit (by Hock, Hans Henrich); 10. Poeticality and Word Order in Old Tamil (by Herring, Susan C.); 11. Suppressed Assertion and the Functions of the Final-Attributive in Prose and Poetry of Heian Japanese (by Iwasaki, Shoichi); 12. ORALITY; 13. Robert Keayne's Notebooks: A verbatim record of spoken English in early Boston? (by Kyto, Merja); 14. Textual Authenticity: Evidence from Medieval Greek (by Joseph, Brian D.); 15. Parameters Underlying Punctuation in Older Russian Texts (by Gvozdanovic, Jadranka); 16. DIALECT; 17. The Middle English Verb-Second Constraint: A case study in language contact and language change (by Kroch, Anthony S.); 18. A la Recherche du Word Order Not Quite Perdu (by Gregersen, Frans); 19. Index of Languages; 20. Index of Subjects

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions