Studies in the History of the English Language
Subtitle: A Millennial Perspective (Topics in English Linguistics, 39)
Contributors: Donka Minkova (Editor); Robert P. Stockwell (Editor)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: August 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783110173680
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Grammar, Historical; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Language; General; Linguistics; English language; History
First sentence: One of the much-discussed themes of linguistic work in the last hundred years has been how to think about the relationships between synchrony and diachrony, between structure and use, between arbitrariness and motivatedness, between what Roberts has called "a random 'walk' through the space defined by the set of possible parameter values" (Roberts 1993: 252) and observed directionalities of change.