Subject: new book : language change / functional linguistics

raymond hickey and stanislaw puppel ( editors ) language history and linguistic modelling a festschrift for jacek fisiak on his 60th birthday 1997 . 23 x 15 , 5 cm . vol . 1 : xxxviii , 1137 pages . vol . 2 : xvi , 983 pages cloth 2 vols . dm 698 , - / approx . us \ $ 499 . 00 isbn 3-11 - 014504 - 9 trends in linguistics . studies and monographs 101 mouton de gruyter * berlin * new york this volume presents a collection of some 130 contributions covering a wide range of topics of interest to historical , theoretical and applied linguists alike . a major theme is the development of english which is examined on several levels in the light of recent linguistic theory in various papers . the geographical dimension is also treated extensively , with papers on controversial aspects of variety studies , as are topical linguistic matters from a more general perspective . organization of the two volumes * preface * curriculum vitae * list of publications * i . language history * the history of english * phonetics / phonology * morphology * syntax * lexis * varieties , past and present * general * historical linguistics * language groups and families * the history of linguistics * change * semantics * pragmatics * discourse analysis * ii . linguistic modelling * general * phonetics / phonology * morphology * syntax * text linguistics , translation and stylistics * varia _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mouton de gruyter walter de gruyter , inc . postfach 30 34 21 200 saw mill river road d-10728 berlin hawthorne , ny 10532 germany usa fax : + 49 ( 0 ) 30 26005-351 fax : + 1 914 747-1326 email : 100064 . 2307 @ compuserve . com publications by de gruyter can also be ordered via world wide web : http : / / www . degruyter . de
