33.362, Books: Syntactic Change in Late Modern English: Smitterberg

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:14:29
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: Syntactic Change in Late Modern English: Smitterberg

 


Title: Syntactic Change in Late Modern English 
Subtitle: Studies on Colloquialization and Densification 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/syntactic-change-late-modern-english-studies-colloquialization-and-densification?format=HB 


Author: Erik Smitterberg

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108474221 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108474221 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108474221 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to
linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and
1900, the language appeared to be structurally stable during this period. This
book resolves this paradox by presenting a new, idiolect-centred perspective
on language change, and shows how this framework is applicable to change in
any language. It then demonstrates how an idiolect-centred framework can be
reconciled with corpus-linguistic methodology through four original case
studies. These concern colloquialization (the process by which oral features
spread to writing) and densification (the process by which meaning is
condensed into shorter linguistic units), two types of change that
characterize Modern English. The case studies also shed light on the role of
genre and gender in language change and contribute to the discussion of how to
operationalize frequency in corpus linguistics. This study will be essential
reading for researchers in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and
sociolinguistics.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Change in Late Modern
English; 3. Aspects of Language Change; 4. Methodological Framework; 5.
Colloquialization I: Not-Contraction; 6. Colloquialization II: Co-Ordination
by and; 7. Densification I: Nouns as Premodifiers in Noun Phrases; 8.
Densification II: Participle Clauses as Postmodifiers in Noun Phrases; 9.
Concluding Discussion; Appendix; References; Index.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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