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The Handbook of the History of English

Ans van Kemenade (Editor), Bettelou Los (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8786-2
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672 pages
February 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems
  • surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology
  • offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research

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