The handbook of the history of English / edited by Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kemenade, Ans van, 1954-

Los, Bettelou.

Series:

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--History.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (674 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology offers readers a comprehensive overvie

Contents:

The Handbook of the History of English; Contents; Editors' Introduction; Notes on Contributors; Part I Approaches and Issues; 1 Change for the Better? Optimality Theory versus History; 2 Cuing a New Grammar; 3 Variation and the Interpretation of Change in Periphrastic Do; 4 Evolutionary Models and Functional-Typological Theories of Language Change; Part II Words: Derivation and Prosody; 5 Old and Middle English Prosody; 6 Prosodic Preferences: From Old English to Early Modern English; 7 Typological Changes in Derivational Morphology; 8 Competition in English Word Formation

Part III Inflectional Morphology and Syntax9 Case Syncretism and Word Order Change; 10 Discourse Adverbs and Clausal Syntax in Old and Middle English; 11 The Loss of OV Order in the History of English; 12 Category Change and Gradience in the Determiner System; Part IV Pragmatics; 13 Pathways in the Development of Pragmatic Markers in English; 14 The Semantic Development of Scalar Focus Modifiers; 15 Information Structure and Word Order Change: The Passive as an Information-rearranging Strategy in the History of English; Part V Pre- and Post-colonial Varieties; 16 Old English Dialectology

17 Early Middle English Dialectology: Problems and Prospects18 How English Became African American English; 19 Historical Change in Synchronic Perspective: The Legacy of British Dialects; 20 The Making of Hiberno-English and Other ""Celtic Englishes""; Part VI Standardization and Globalization; 21 Eighteenth-century Prescriptivism and the Norm of Correctness; 22 Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change; 23 Global English: From Island Tongue to World Language; Appendix: Useful Corpora for Research in English Historical Linguistics; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786611320850

9781281320858

1281320854

9781780342351

1780342357

9781405164153

1405164158

9780470757048

0470757043

9780470756805

0470756802

OCLC:

437218789