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A historical morphology of English / Don Ringe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ringe, Don, Jr., 1954- author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced
- Edinburgh textbooks on the English language - advanced
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Morphology.
- English language.
- English language--Grammar--History.
- English language--Grammar.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Your user-friendly study and revision guide to Scots criminal law, written specially for students by a law lecturer with over 20 years of teaching experience.
- "Charting the major developments in the morphology of English, this book introduces students to English inflectional and derivational morphology, presenting them with a long-range perspective of language change. It is built around the chronological periods crucial for each type of important large-scale change in the morphology of English, moving from Old, Middle and Early Modern English, to Modern English. The book also explores four sources of linguistic innovation - learner errors in categorical inflectional systems, lexical analogy, productivity in derivational systems and language and dialect contact - illustrating the extent to which the history of English Morphology offers significant information about morphological change in general"-- De Gruyter Brill.
- Contents:
- Morphology
- Linguistic change and the evidence of the past
- Old English inflectional morphology
- Inflectional change in late Old English
- Casemarking in Middle English
- Contact with Norse and French
- Middle English verb inflection
- Toward Modern English
- Inherited derivational patterns
- French derivational patterns in English
- Latinate derivational patterns in English
- Some aspects of modern English derivational morphology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed November 24, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ringe, Don, Jr., 1954- Historical morphology of English
- ISBN:
- 9781474459785
- 1474459781
- 9781474459792
- 147445979X
- OCLC:
- 1289815220
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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