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English Lexicogenesis

D. Gary Miller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2014 - 335 pages
This volume investigates the processes by which novel words in English are coined, adopted, and adapted, such as affixation, compounding, and clipping. It looks at the ...
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Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change

D. Gary Miller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 492 pages
This book seeks to answer the questions: why do grammars change, and why is the rate of such change so variable? A principal focus is on changes in English between the Anglo ...
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Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge

D. Gary Miller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 156 pages
This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent ...
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Complex Verb Formation

D. Gary Miller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 381 pages
This investigation of complex verb formation seeks to identify and clarify the way(s) in which a base verb becomes 'complex'. The author carefully considers both the syntactic ...
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Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors: Introduction to the Dialect ...

D. Gary Miller - History - 2013 - 475 pages
Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core. The proper dialect for elegy was Ionic, even when composed by Tyrtaeus in Sparta or Theognis in Megara, both Doric areas ...
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