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Studies in the history of the English language : a millennial perspective / edited by Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Topics in English linguistics ; 39.
- Topics in English linguistics ; 39
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--History.
- English language.
- English language--Grammar, Historical.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (504 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2011
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millennium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Millennial perspectives
- From etymology to historical pragmatics
- Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguistics
- Dialectology and the history of the English language
- Origin unknown
- Issues for a new history of English prosody
- Chaucer: Folk poet or littérateur?
- A rejoinder to Youmans and Li
- Phonology and metrics
- On the development of English r
- Vowel variation in English rhyme
- Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change
- Dating criteria for Old English poems
- How much shifting actually occurred in the historical English vowel shift?
- Restoration of /a/ revisited
- Morphosyntax/Semantics
- Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English
- Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English
- Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbs
- The "have" perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect?
- Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions
- The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics
- Envoy
- A thousand years of the history of English
- Back matter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612193729
- 9781282193727
- 1282193724
- 9783111809380
- 3111809382
- 9783110197143
- 3110197146
- OCLC:
- 191935959
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