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Syntactic Change in Late Modern English: Studies on Colloquialization and Densification
By (author) Erik Smitterberg
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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.
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 8 Feb 2024
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 316
Dimensions | 228 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 480g
ISBN | 978-1-1084-6397-3
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BISAC | language arts & disciplines / linguistics
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