English Past and Presents. Papers read at the First National Conference of History of English (april 1988)

ISBN:                       88-7514-384-6

The contributions are divided into six sections: 1. Change in general; 2. Changing attitudes to language; 3. Syntactic change; 4. The lexicon; 5. Varieties of English; 6. Discourse analysis. Both anglicists in the strict sense of the term and linguists will find something of interest in these pages.