The Internal History of English:Linguistic Changes

이필환 지음

한국문화사 2022년 08월 24일 출간 국내도서 : 2019년 08월 31일 출간

작품소개

책소개

이 책은 언어 변화를 중심으로 한 영어의 역사에 대해 이야기한다.

목차

Preface

CHAPTER 1. Language Change
1.1. Language-external Causes for Language Change
1.2. Language-internal Causes for Language Change

CHAPTER 2. Changes in Vocabulary: Lexical Change
2.1. Borrowing Words from Foreign Sources
2.2. Creating Words from Native Sources
2.3. Current Changes in English Vocabulary

CHAPTER 3. Changes in Spelling and Pronunciation:Orthographic and Phonetic Change
3.1. Spelling Change
3.2. Pronunciation Change
3.3. Remedies for Discrepancy: Efforts for Spelling Reforms

CHAPTER 4. Changes in Word Form: Morphological Change
4.1. Inflection: Declension and Conjugation
4.2. Pronouns
4.3. Articles and Demonstratives
4.4. Nouns
4.5. Adjectives and Adverbs
4.6. Verbs

CHAPTER 5. Changes in Grammar: Syntactic Change
5.1. Word Order
5.2. Internal Structure of the Noun Phrase
5.3. Internal Structure of the Verb Phrase
5.4. Grammatical Functions

CHAPTER 6. Changes in Meaning: Semantic Change
6.1. Aspects of Meaning
6.2. Metaphoric and Metonymic Transfer of Meaning
6.3. Synesthesia
6.4. Abstraction of Meaning
6.5. Objectivization and Subjectivization of Meaning
6.6. Broadening and Narrowing
6.7. Pejoration and Amelioration
6.8. Taboo and Euphemism
6.9. Semantic Bleaching
6.10. Why does Meaning Change?
6.11. Meaning Change and Dictionaries

Cited Bibliography
Index

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저자(글) 이필환

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PIL-HWAN LEE is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Keimyung University, where he has taught since 2000. Before that, he worked for Chonbuk Sanup University for more than six years (1994-2000). He has held visiting appointments at the University of Manchester (supported by the British Council Fellowship, 1998-1999) and the California State University (Fresno, 2005). He graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature at Seoul National University (1986), and did his PhD there, too (1993, A Diachronic Study on Word Order in English: The Minimalist Approach).
He is the author of English Diachronic Syntax (1999, Excellent Authorship by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) and Syntactic Changes in English (2007, Excellent Authorship by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism). He was the chief-editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics and was the president of the English Linguistics Society of Korea (2015-2017). His research efforts have focussed on English historical syntax and English grammar. He has written more than forty articles on these subjects.