Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics : : Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421-1503) / / Alexander Bergs.

The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view. In the three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2005
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 51
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Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Proem
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Table of contents
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Historical sociolinguistics
  • Chapter 3 Social network analysis – present and past
  • Chapter 4 Personal pronouns
  • Chapter 5 Relative clauses
  • Chapter 6 The light verb construction
  • Chapter 7 Conclusion: a network perspective
  • Notes
  • References
  • Author index
  • Subject index
  • 319-320