Late Modern English has traditionally been considered a period of linguistic stability in terms of language standardization. However, a careful examination of crucial aspects of its internal and external history reveals that this period still deserves scholarly attention. This book aims to offer valuable tools for the study of Late Modern English, along with a selection of studies that approach linguistic variation from various perspectives. In the first part, the book provides an account of some available corpora for the study of Late Modern English, representing different text types such as medical English or private correspondence, among others. Additionally, these corpora cover various dialects and early new varieties of English. In the second part, several corpus-based studies assess Late Modern English at different levels shedding light on the language of the period.
Edited by:
Javier Calle-Martín,
Jesús Romero-Barranco
Series edited by:
Maurizio Gotti
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Volume: 308
Dimensions:
Height: 225mm,
Width: 150mm,
Weight: 593g
ISBN: 9783034346429
ISBN 10: 3034346425
Series: Linguistic Insights
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 29 April 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Javier Calle- Martín: From Corpora to Data: Sources for the Study of Late Modern English – Carolina P. Amador- Moreno: Language Change in Ireland: Compiling and Using a Diachronic Corpus to Study the Evolution of an Early New English – Begoña Crespo and Isabel Moskowich:The Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing: The Gift that Keeps on Giving – Javier Calle- Martín: Medical English Writing in the Period 1700– 1900: The Málaga Corpus of Late Modern English Scientific Prose – Carla Suhr, Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen: The Corpus of Late Modern English Medical Writing: Scientific and Social Change in the Eighteenth Century – María F. García- Bermejo Giner and Javier Ruano- García: Investigating Variation and Change in Late Modern English Dialects: The Salamanca Corpus – David Denison, Nuria Yáñez- Bouza and Tino Oudesluijs: Editing The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740– c.1850) – Zeltia Blanco- Suárez: Ridiculously Well or Madly Ambitious: Some Diachronic Notes on the Intensifying Adverbs Ridiculously and Madly – Cristina Blanco- García: Ephemeral Causal Adverbial Subordinators: Their Emergence and Decline in Modern English – Miriam Criado- Peña: Demonstrative them in American English over Two Centuries (1820– 2020) – Jesús Fernández- Domínguez: Tracking Down Marginal Productivity: The Suffix - ment between 1820 and 2019 – Juan Lorente- Sánchez: Past Participle Forms in Competition: - ed vs - (e)n in Historical British and American English – Marta Pacheco- Franco: Webster’s Spelling Reform: From - our to - or in Colour- Type Words – Marta Pacheco- Franco and Javier Calle- Martín: Verbal Contractions in Late Modern English – Alicia Rodríguez- Álvarez and Sara von der Fecht- Fernández: Amerindian Loanwords in Richard Hakluyt’s The Principall Navigations (1589) and Their Inclusion in Early and Late Modern English Dictionaries: Applications and Limitations of Digital Corpora, Databases and Tools in Lexicographical Research – Nuria Yáñez- Bouza and Tino Oudesluijs: “My dearest friend … Ever Yours, Mary Hamilton”: Exploring Forms of Address in the Late Georgian Period
Javier Calle-Martín is a Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Málaga (Spain), where he teaches History of English and Quantitative Linguistics. His research interests include the History of the English Language and Manuscript Studies, with a focus on Late Middle English and Early Modern English scientific manuscripts. In recent years, he has also developed an interest in the standardization of English and the relationship between usage and prescription in Late Modern English. Jesús Romero-Barranco is a member of the Department of English at the University of Málaga (Spain), where he is in charge of different subjects within English Linguistics. Among his research interests are English Historical Linguistics (early English scientific writing and early English correspondence), Ecdotics and morphosyntactic variation.
