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Yes, you can access History of Englishes by Matti Rissanen,Ossi Ihalainen,Terttu Nevalainen,Irma Taavitsainen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Languages. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Languages & Linguistics

I. Theory and methodology
Translation and the history of English
The evidence for analytic and synthetic developments in English
Evidence for regular sound change in English dialect geography
A social model for the interpretation of language change
How to study Old English syntax?
II. Phonology and orthography
Exceptionality and non-specification in the history of English phonology
The myth of “the Anglo-Norman scribe”
Old English ABCs
What, if anything, was the Great Vowel Shift?
Lexical and morphological consequences of phonotactic change in the history of English
Lexical phonology and diachrony
Homorganic clusters as moric busters in the history of English: the case of -Id, -nd, -mb
Middle English vowel quantity reconsidered
III. Morphology and syntax
On explaining the historical development of English genitives
A touch of (sub-)class? Old English “preterite-present” verbs
The information present: present tense for communication in the past
Structural factors in the history of English modals
Subordinating uses of and in the history of English
The distribution of verb forms in Old English subordinate clauses
Relative constructions and functional amalgamation in Early Modern English
The use of to and for in Old English
Man’s son/son of man: translation, textual conditioning, and the history of the English genitive
Why is the element order to cwæð him ‘said to him’ impossible?
On the development of the by-agent in English
Pragmatics of this and that
A valency description of Old English possessive verbs
Who(m)? Constraints on the loss of case marking of wh-pronouns in the English of Shakespeare and other poets of the Early Modern English period
“I not say”: bridge phenomenon in syntactic change
IV. Lexis and semantics
The status of word formation in Middle English: approaching the question
Post-dating Romance loan-words in Middle English: are the French words of the Katherine Group English?
Rich Lake: a case history
V. Varieties and dialects
The evolution of a vernacular
Relativization in the Dorset dialect
William Barnes and the south west dialect of English
A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: the value of texts surviving in more than one version
A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: tradition and typology
A chapter in the worldwide spread of English: Malta
“Du’s no heard da last o’dis” – on the use of be as a perfective auxiliary in Shetland dialect
On the morphology of verbs in Middle Scots: present and present perfect indicative
The pace of change in Appalachian English
Variability in Old English and the continental Germanic languages
Variability in Tok Pisin phonology: “Did you say ‘pig’ or ‘fig’?”
VI. Text types and individual texts
Chaucer’s Boece: a syntactic and lexical analysis
The linguistic evolution of five written and speech-based English genres from the 17th to the 20th centuries
The do variant field in questions and negatives: Jane Austen’s Complete Letters and Mansfield Park
The repertoire of topic changers in personal, intimate letters: a diachronic study of Osborne and Woolf
Text-types and language history: the cookery recipe
Macaronic writing in a London archive, 1380–1480
Abbreviations of titles of textual sources
Name index
Subject index

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