Donka Minkova

Robert Stockwell

The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.

A Millennial Perspective

Studies in the History of the English Language

A new edition of this textbook discusses the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages.

History and Structure

English Words

An introduction to some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis and a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment.

Robert Stockwell

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