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oapen-20.500.12657-332302021-11-08T09:23:56Z From Clerks to Corpora: essays on the English language yesterday and today Sundkvist, Peter Shaw, Philip Erman, Britt Melchers, Gunnel corpus linguistics english diachronic linguistics J. R. R. Tolkien bic Book Industry Communication::C Language bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CB Language: reference & general::CBX Language: history & general works bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFH Phonetics, phonology bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies Why is the Isle of Dogs in the Thames called Isle of Dogs? Did King Canute’s men bring English usage back to Jutland? How can we find out where English speakers suck their breath in to give a short response? And what did the Brontës do about dialect and think about foreign languages? The answers are in this collection of empirical work on English past and present in honour of Nils-Lennart Johannesson, Professor of English Language at Stockholm University. The first five chapters report individual studies forming an overview of current issues in the study of Old and Middle English phonology, lexis and syntax. The next six look at Early Modern and Modern English from a historical point of view, using data from corpora, manuscript archives, and fiction. Two more look at the Old English scholar JRR Tolkien and his work. The remaining chapters discuss aspects of Modern English. Several use corpora to look at English usage in itself or in relation to Swedish, French, or Norwegian. The last three look at grammatical models, the pragmatics of second language use, and modern English semantics. 2015-03-23 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:37:02Z 2020-04-01T14:37:02Z 2015 book 530632 OCN: 945782899 2002-0163 9789176350058;9789176350065;9789176350072 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33230 eng Stockholm English Studies application/pdf n/a 530632.pdf https://doi.org/10.16993/sup.bab Stockholm University Press 10.16993/sup.bab 10.16993/sup.bab 8137467e-e537-45b2-b1c8-94fc2574b729 9789176350058;9789176350065;9789176350072 2 391 Stockholm open access
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Why is the Isle of Dogs in the Thames called Isle of Dogs? Did King Canute’s men bring English usage back to Jutland? How can we find out where English speakers suck their breath in to give a short response? And what did the Brontës do about dialect and think about foreign languages? The answers are in this collection of empirical work on English past and present in honour of Nils-Lennart Johannesson, Professor of English Language at Stockholm University. The first five chapters report individual studies forming an overview of current issues in the study of Old and Middle English phonology, lexis and syntax. The next six look at Early Modern and Modern English from a historical point of view, using data from corpora, manuscript archives, and fiction. Two more look at the Old English scholar JRR Tolkien and his work. The remaining chapters discuss aspects of Modern English. Several use corpora to look at English usage in itself or in relation to Swedish, French, or Norwegian. The last three look at grammatical models, the pragmatics of second language use, and modern English semantics.
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