Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics

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Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics is written by Sylvia M. Adamson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027286000 (ISBN 10) and 9789027286000 (ISBN 13).

This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Cambridge in 1987. It draws together important state-of-the-art' studies in the syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics of Old, Middle and Modern English by prominent figures in the field into a single volume. Core theoretical areas are well represented and there are also major papers in dialectology, stylistics, metrics, socio-historical linguistics and the history of English linguistics.The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor James P. Thorne, whose last conference paper is included in the collection.