Rethinking Middle English

Rethinking Middle English
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Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105114885002
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Book Synopsis Rethinking Middle English by : Nikolaus Ritt

Download or read book Rethinking Middle English written by Nikolaus Ritt and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents Middle English studies as a modern discipline which unites linguistics, literature, philology, the history of ideas, textual studies including recent developments in the study of text types and genres, as well as the sociohistorical perspective. This large variety of both traditional and new approaches is mirrored in the four main parts of the book, starting with texts and text types, and moving on to vocabulary, syntax and morphology, and finally phonology and orthography. Aspects of language contact as well as corpus linguistic studies are also addressed in a number of contributions. Author are leading experts in their fields, and come from the United States, South Africa, and all parts of Europe.


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