text_combined: new books historical linguistics new titles john benjamins publishing historical linguistics historical linguistics 1993 selected papers 11th international conference historical linguistics los angeles 1620 august 1993 henning andersen ed 1995 x 460 pp current issues linguistic theory 124 us canada cloth 1 55619 578 8 price us 110 00 rest world cloth 90 272 3627 5 price hfl 190 john benjamins publishing web site http www benjamins com information via email service benjamins com volume contains selection papers 11th international conference historical linguistics among presented workshop typology parameters organized conference 34 papers discuss variety topics reflecting latest developments research historical linguistics covering wide range languages contributions andrew allen gregory anderson julie auger laurel brinton dieter stein v edt bubenik kate burridge concepci f3n company c jac conradie thomas cravens luciano giannelli naomi cull andrei danchev bridget drinka 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morphology syntax relation basque languages also investigated couple chapters english historical linguistics 1994 papers 8th international conference english historical linguistics 8 icehl edinburgh 1923 september 1994 1996 viii 403 pp current issues linguistic theory 135 us canada cloth 1 55619 590 7 price us 84 00 rest world cloth 90 272 3639 9 price hfl 150 john benjamins publishing web site http www benjamins com information via email service benjamins com volume offers selection 19 papers read 8th international conference english historical linguistics topics discussed span whole history english common germanic period present century book also includes appropriate conference venue number papers aspects historical development scots scottish english historical pragmatics pragmatic developments history english andreas h jucker ed 1995 xvi 624 pp pragmatics beyond new series 35 us canada cloth 1 55619 328 9 price us 97 00 rest world cloth 90 272 5047 2 price hfl 170 john benjamins publishing web site http www benjamins com information via email service benjamins com recently pragmatics restricted analysis contemporary spoken language historical linguistics studied historical texts language change decontextualized way radically changed scholars around world trying build new theoretical framework integrates recent advances pragmatics historical linguistics volume contains 22 original titles starts introduction stateof theart account historical pragmatics programmatic statement future potential different subfields part contains seven pragmaphilological papers deal historical texts interpretations paying close attention communicative context texts second third parts comprise papers diachronic pragmatics ten papers part ii take linguistic form starting point e g particular lexical items syntactic constructions study pragmatic functions different times diachronic formto function mappings four papers part iii take particular pragmatic function starting point e g discourse strategies politeness study linguistic realisation different times diachronic functionto form mappings contributions c allen u bach h bergrer e bern e1rdez p tejada fludernik g fritz w h fcllen jacobs jucker r kopytko kryk kastovsky j lennard j de lima p navarro errasti nevalainen h raumolin brunberg n onodera g ronberg schwenter e traugott taavistainen virtanen k wales w e5rvik r watts semitic indoeuropean principal etymologies observations afroasiatic saul levin 1995 xxii 514 pp current issues linguistic theory 129 us canada cloth 1 55619 583 4 price us 97 00 rest world cloth 90 272 3632 1 price hfl 170 john benjamins publishing web site http www benjamins com information via email service benjamins com volume presents key examples morphological correspondences indo european semitic languages afforded nouns verbal roots pronouns prepositions numerals focus shared morphology embodied cognate vocabulary facts brought volume fit comfortably within either indo europeanists 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