Date: 29-Jun-2006 From: Matt Glidden <blackwellnewsbos.blackwellpublishing.net> Subject: The Handbook of the History of English: van Kemenade, Los (Eds)
Title: The Handbook of the History of English
Series Title: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Published: 2006
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com
Editor: Ans van Kemenade
Editor: Bettelou Los
Hardback: ISBN: 063123344X Pages: 800 Price: U.K. £ 99.99
Hardback: ISBN: 063123344X Pages: 800 Price: U.S. $ 149.95
Abstract:
The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. The book organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems; surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology; offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research.