Periphrasis, replacement and renewal : studies in English historical linguistics / edited by Irén Hegedűs and Dóra Pődör.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hegedűs, Irén, editor.

Pődör, Dóra, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar, Historical--Congresses.

English language.

English language--History--Congresses.

English language--Variation--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Studies in English historical linguistics

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributions to this volume smoothly blend synchronic theory and diachronic investigations, and thus offer novel observations about the historical evolution of the English language from various theoretical angles (such as minimalist theory, formal semantics, recent theories on productivity, and various discourse models). By offering new vantage points and improved frameworks for the study of Present-Day English, the papers also provide solutions to problems that have been persistently pr...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION - PERIPHRASIS, REPLACEMENT AND RENEWAL; PART I - PATTERNS AND MODELS OF REPLACEMENT; WHAT ARE 'GRAMMATICAL PERIPHRASES'?; MORPHOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY AS A TRIGGER OF THE ÞURFAN / NEED REPLACEMENT; ASPECTUAL LOSS AND RENEWAL; LITERAL SUBSTITUTION SETS IN MSS OF THE MAN OF LAW'S TALE; PART II - SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC VARIATION AND CHANGE; SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC VARIATION; V-1 MAIN DECLARATIVE CLAUSES IN OLD ENGLISH AND OLD HIGH GERMAN BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS; THE GRAMMATICALIZATION OF OLD ENGLISH WHETHER IN THE LEFT PERIPHERY

THE LOSS OF LEXICAL CASE IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH MODAL ADJECTIVES IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH; PART III - ADVERBIALS AND PARTICLES; ADVERBIALS IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH; THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NO SOONER ... THAN AND ITS SEMANTIC CHANGES; A TURN OF THE SCREW IN THE SEMANTICS OF PHRASAL VERBS; PART IV - FUNCTIONAL AND REGIONAL VARIATION IN DISCOURSE AND VOCABULARY; DISCOURSE STRATEGIES IN MARGERY KEMPE'S DESCRIPTIONS OF HER PILGRIMAGES; DIVERGING REGISTERS OF THE DISCIPLINES MEDICINE AND SCIENCE; WHITE KENNETT'S ETYMOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PROVINCIAL EXPRESSIONS

CONTRIBUTORSINDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 18, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6650-4

OCLC:

890530461