Ebook: History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The conference was held at the University of Helsinki in May 1990 as one of the events of the 350th jubilee year of the University. The topics of the papers accepted for inclusion clearly show the increasing interest in geographical and social variation and in the detailed study of texts in English historical linguistics. It is also interesting to note that the former distinct borderline between historical linguistics and philology is disappearing. Although the aims and methods of these two approaches should not be confused, they clearly support each other and scholars will benefit greatly from the mastery of the basic methodologies of both in their attempts to describe and explain the past stages and development of English.