The Oxford handbook of the history of English / edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nevalainen, Terttu.

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Oxford handbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--History.

English language.

History.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 942 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

A major reference work with 68 chapters from leading scholars in the field

The first work to address major shifts in research as the result of newly available corpora Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Rethinking Evidence

Guide to Part I

Evidence

1 Evidence for the history of English: Introduction / Susan Fitzmaurice Fitzmaurice, Susan, Jeremy Smith Smith, Jeremy 19

2 Evidence from sources prior to 1500 / Carole Hough Hough, Carole 37

3 Coins as evidence / Philip A. Shaw Shaw, Philip A. 50

4 Editing early English texts / Simon Horobin Horobin, Simon 53

5 Evidence from sources after 1500 / Joan C. Beal Beal, Joan C. 63

6 Examples of evidence from phonology 79

6.1 Middle English phonology in the digital age: What written corpora can tell us about sound change / Nikolaus Ritt Ritt, Nikolaus 81

6.2 Evidence for sound change from Scottish corpora / Wendy Anderson Anderson, Wendy 87

6.3 GOAT vowel variants in the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE) / Karen P. Corrigan Corrigan, Karen P. 90

6.4 Analyzing the ONZE data as evidence for sound change / Jennifer Hay Hay, Jennifer 94

7 Using dictionaries and thesauruses as evidence / Julie Coleman Coleman, Julie 98

8 Evidence from surveys and atlases in the history of the English language / William A. Kretzschmar Kretzschmar, William A., Merja Stenroos Stenroos, Merja 111

9 Evidence from historical corpora up to the twentieth century / Merja Kytö Kytö, Merja, Päivi Pahta Pahta, Päivi 123

10 Variability-based neighbor clustering: A bottom-up approach to periodization in historical linguistics / Stefan Th. Gries Gries, Stefan Th., Martin Hilpert Hilpert, Martin 134

11 Data retrieval in a diachronic context: The case of the historical English courtroom / Dawn Archer Archer, Dawn 145

Observing Recent Change Through Electronic Corpora

12 Some methodological issues related to corpus-based investigations of recent syntactic changes in English / Mark Davies Davies, Mark 157

13 "Small is beautiful": On the value of standard reference corpora for observing recent grammatical change / Marianne Hundt Hundt, Marianne, Geoffrey Leech Leech, Geoffrey 175

14 Exploring variation and change in New Englishes: Looking into the International Corpus of English (ICE) and beyond / Joybrato Mukherjee Mukherjee, Joybrato, Marco Schilk Schilk, Marco 189

15 Change in the English infinitival perfect construction / Jill Bowie Bowie, Jill, Bas Aarts Aarts, Bas 200

16 Revisiting the reduplicative copula with corpus-based evidence / Anne Curzan Curzan, Anne 211

17 Exploring aspects of the Great Complement Shift, with evidence from the TIME Corpus and COCA / Juhani Rudanko Rudanko, Juhani 222

18 Diachronic collostructional analysis meets the noun phrase: Studying many a noun in COHA / Martin Hilpert Hilpert, Martin 233

19 From opportunistic to systematic use of the Web as corpus: Do-support with got (to) in contemporary American English / Christian Mair Mair, Christian 245

Part II Issues in Culture and Society

Guide to Part II

Mass Communication and Technologies

20 Technologies of communication / Thomas Kohnen Kohnen, Thomas, Christian Mair Mair, Christian 261

21 Oral practices in the history of English / Ursula Schaefer Schaefer, Ursula 285

22 Forms of early mass communication: The religious domain / Tanja Rütten Rütten, Tanja 295

23 From manuscript to printing: Transformations of genres in the history of English / Claudia Claridge Claridge, Claudia 304

24 The competing demands of popularization vs. economy: Written language in the age of mass literacy / Douglas Biber Biber, Douglas, Bethany Gray Gray, Bethany 314

25 The impact of electronically-mediated communication on language standards and style / Naomi S. Baron Baron, Naomi S. 329

26 Old news: Rethinking language change through Australian broadcast speech / Jenny Price Price, Jenny 341

27 The commodification of language: English as a global commodity / Deborah Cameron Cameron, Deborah 352

Sociocultural Processes

28 Sociocultural processes and the history of English / Jonathan Culpeper Culpeper, Jonathan, Minna Nevala Nevala, Minna 365

29 Democratization / Michael Farrelly Farrelly, Michael, Elena Seoane Seoane, Elena 392

30 Changing attitudes and political correctness / Geoffrey Hughes Hughes, Geoffrey 402

31 Social roles, identities, and networks / Minna Palander-Collin Palander-Collin, Minna 412

32 Changes in politeness cultures / Andreas H. Jucker Jucker, Andreas H. 422

33 The history of English seen as the history of ideas: Cultural change reflected in different translations of the New Testament / Anna Wierzbicka Wierzbicka, Anna 434

34 Attitudes, prescriptivism, and standardization / Carol Percy Percy, Carol 446

35 Perceptions of dialects: Changing attitudes and ideologies / Chris Montgomery Montgomery, Chris 457

36 English in Ireland: A complex case study / Tony Crowley Crowley, Tony 470

Part III Approaches from Contact and Typology

Guide to Part III

Language Contact

37 Assessing the role of contact in the history of English / Raymond Hickey Hickey, Raymond 485

38 Early English and the Celtic hypothesis / Raymond Hickey Hickey, Raymond 497

39 Language contact in the Scandinavian period / Angelika Lutz Lutz, Angelika 508

40 Language contact and linguistic attitudes in the Later Middle Ages / Tim William Machan Machan, Tim William 518

41 Code-switching in English of the Middle Ages / Päivi Pahta Pahta, Päivi 528

42 Ethnic dialects in North American English / Charles Boberg Boberg, Charles 538

43 Contact in the African area: A Southern African perspective / Ana Deumert Deumert, Ana, Rajend Mesthrie Mesthrie, Rajend 549

44 Contact in the Asian arena / Lisa Lim Lim, Lisa, Umberto Ansaldo Ansaldo, Umberto 560

45 Contact-induced change in English worldwide / Edgar W. Schneider Schneider, Edgar W. 572

46 Second language varieties of English / Devyani Sharma Sharma, Devyani 582

47 Pidgins and creoles in the history of English / Donald Winford Winford, Donald 592

Typology and Typological Change

48 Typology and typological change in English historical linguistics / Bernd Kortmann Kortmann, Bernd 605

49 The drift of English toward invariable word order from a typological and Germanic perspective / John A. Hawkins Hawkins, John A. 622

50 Typological hierarchies and frequency drifts in the history of English / Mikko Laitinen Laitinen, Mikko 633

51 Lexical typology and typological changes in the English lexicon / Alexander Haselow Haselow, Alexander 643

52 Analyticity and syntheticity in the history of English / Benedikt Szmrecsanyi Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt 654

53 Grammaticalization in nonstandard varieties of English and English-based pidgins and creoles / Agnes Schneider Schneider, Agnes 666

54 Toward an automated classification of Englishes / Søren Wichmann Wichmann, Søren, Matthias Urban Urban, Matthias 676

Part IV Rethinking Categories and Modules

Guide to Part IV

Cycles and Continua

55 Cycles and continua: On unidirectionality and gradualness in language change / Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo, Graeme Trousdale Trousdale, Graeme 691

56 Quantitative evidence for a feature-based account of grammaticalization in English: Jespersen's Cycle / Phillip Wallage Wallage, Phillip 721

57 The syntax-lexicon continuum / Cristiano Broccias Broccias, Cristiano 735

58 Toward a unified theory of chain shifting / Aaron J. Dinkin Dinkin, Aaron J. 748

59 (Non)-rhoticity: Lessons from New Zealand English / Jennifer Hay Hay, Jennifer, Alhana Clendon Clendon, Alhana 761

60 Lenition in English / Patrick Honeybone Honeybone, Patrick 773

61 Continua and clines in the development of New Englishes / Devyani Sharma Sharma, Devyani, Caroline R.

Wiltshire Wiltshire, Caroline R. 788

Interfaces with Information Structure

62 The interaction between syntax, information structure, and prosody in word order change / Roland Hinterhölzl Hinterhölzl, Roland, Ans van Kemenade Kemenade, Ans van 803

63 Rethinking the loss of verb second / Ans van Kemenade Kemenade, Ans van 822

64 Rethinking the OV/VO alternation in Old English: The effect of complexity, grammatical weight, and information status / Ann Taylor Taylor, Ann, Susan Pintzuk Pintzuk, Susan 835

65 The impact of focusing and defocusing on word order: Changes at the periphery in Old English and Old High German / Svetlana Petrova Petrova, Svetlana 846

66 The loss of local anchoring: From adverbial local anchors to permissive subjects / Bettelou Los Los, Bettelou, Gea Dreschler Dreschler, Gea 859

67 Stress clash and word order changes in the left periphery in Old English and Middle English / Augustin Speyer Speyer, Augustin 873

68 Clefts as resolution strategies after the loss of a multifunctional first position / Bettelou Los Los, Bettelou, Erwin Komen Komen, Erwin 884.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0199922764

9780199922765

OCLC:

769010953

Publisher Number:

99951949761