Studies in the History of the English Language
Subtitle: A Millennial Perspective
Contributors: Donka Minkova (Editor); Robert P. Stockwell (Editor)
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9783110175912
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Study & Teaching; Language Arts & Disciplines; English; Language
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.