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Contact, variation, and change in the history of English / Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt, Daniel Schreier, University Zurich.
Van Pelt Library PE1074.7 .C56 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in language companion series ; v. 159.
- Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 159
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Variation--History.
- English language.
- Languages in contact--History.
- Languages in contact.
- Linguistic change--History.
- Linguistic change.
- English language--Variation.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 326 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1 Preface
- 2 At the crossroads of language change, variation, and contact p. 1 / Simone E. Pfenninger; Olga Timofeeva; Anne-Christine Gardner; Alpo Honkapohja; Marianne Hundt; Daniel Schreier
- 3 PART I: Language change
- 4 Knitting and splitting information p. 11 / Ursula Lenker
- 5 The order of adverbials of time and place in Old English p. 39 / Susanne Chrambach
- 6 The demise of a preterite-present verb p. 61 / Anna Wojty#347;
- 7 Gradience in an abrupt change p. 83 / Betty S. Phillips
- 8 Vowels before /r/ in the history of English p. 95 / Raymond Hickey
- 9 PART II: Language variation
- 10 "Pained the eye and stunned the ear" p. 113 / Lieselotte Anderwald
- 11 Watching as -clauses in Late Modern English p. 137 / Cristiano Broccias
- 12 Colloquialization and "decolloquialization" p. 163 / Paula Rodríguez-Puente
- 13 Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor (England, c . 1750-1835) p. 187 / Mikko Laitinen; Anita Auer
- 14 New-dialect formation in medieval Ireland p. 213 / Marije van Hattum
- 15 Tracing uses of will and would in Late Modern British and Irish English p. 239 / Patricia Ronan
- 16 PART III: Variation and change in contact situations
- 17 The subjunctive mood in Philippine English p. 259 / Peter Collins; Ariane Macalinga Borlongan; Joo-Hyuk Lim; Xinyue Yao
- 18 Revisiting a millennium of migrations p. 281 / Emil Chamson
- 19 or : A dilemma of the Middle English scribal practice p. 305 / Jerzy Welna
- 20 Index p. 325.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789027259240
- 9027259240
- OCLC:
- 879033946
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