William A Kretzschmar Jr

The Emergence and Development of English

An Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents a beginner's introduction to the history of the English language, incorporating complex systems, the scientific model behind human speech.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 191mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781108469982
• ISBN-10: 1108469981
• Artikelnr.: 52962228

Autorenporträt

William A. Kretzschmar, Jr is the Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities at the University of Georgia, and also has an appointment at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is Editor of the American Linguistic Atlas Project, the oldest and largest national research project surveying how people speak differently across the country, and has provided American pronunciations for the online Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries in the Oxford US Dictionaries program. In 2014 he held an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Innovation fellowship, during which he developed a computer simulation to model language change. Recent works include The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (2017) with Clive Upton, and Exploring Linguistic Science: Language Use, Complexity, and Interaction (Cambridge, 2018) with Allison Burkette.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Popular English: what we think we know
2. Emergence
3. Indo-European
4. Origins of English
5. Old English
6. Early Middle English
7. Late Middle English
8. Early Modern English
9. Modern English
10. Contemporary English
11. Standard English
12. The future of English
Appendix 1. Terms and concepts for studying the English language: expression of words with sounds
Appendix 2. Terms and concepts for studying the English language: beyond expression to content
Appendix 3. Words in use: meaning and corpora.