| Method and Data in English Historical Dialectology Contributor(s): Dossena, Marina (Editor), Lass, Roger (Editor), Gotti, Maurizio (Editor) |
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ISBN: 082047018X ISBN-13: 9780820470184 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $72.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Dewey: 427.007 |
| LCCN: 2005040804 |
| Series: Linguistic Insights, |
| Physical Information: 405 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the First International Conference on English Historical Dialectology (ICEHD), organized at the University of Bergamo in September 2003. It includes papers on fundamental aspects of English historical dialectology, from Old English to Late Modern English. The papers discuss points in two thematically distinct but related sections, 'Methods' and 'Data'. The volume also includes the transcript of a debate on methodological issues, in which the main themes are the principles of historical investigation of geographical varieties, the new approaches provided by corpus linguistics and computer technology, and the need for greater awareness of textual reliability. |