Keys to the History of English Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL Edited by Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porck, Thijs, editor.

Gordon, Moragh S., editor.

Caon, Luisella, editor.

Series:

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 0304-0763 363

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English linguistics.

Germanic linguistics.

Historical linguistics.

Theoretical linguistics.

Local Subjects:

English linguistics.

Germanic linguistics.

Historical linguistics.

Theoretical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 235 pages )

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024

Summary:

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The contributions deal with various aspects of English language across time and geographical space, shedding light on both long-term developments and singular documents of particular linguistic interest. A wide range of methodologies are represented, including corpus linguistics, acoustic phonetics and philology. Chapters showcase work on syntax and word order (parataxis and hypotaxis from Old to Late Modern English; left-dislocation in Old English; do-support in Scots), diachronic linguistic change (phonological developments of lateral /l/ in English; modality in noun clauses from Old to Early Modern English; editorial practices of Middle English punctuation across time) and lexicography and lexis (Old English glosses of the Durham Ritual; Old English lexicographers from 17th-century Germany; lexical differences between Old and Middle English; Yiddish loanwords in English). This volume will be of interest to those working on morphology, syntax and lexicography of English, historical linguistics, language change, history of linguistics, computational historical linguistics and related sub-disciplines. Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon

Parataxis and hypotaxis in the history of English / George Walkden

Two types of left-dislocation in Old English / Artur Bartnik

Subject-verb agreement and the rise of do -support in the period of anglicisation of Scots / Lisa Gotthard

A modern light on diachronic processes affecting coda /l/ in English / Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden

Modality and the English subjunctive in noun clauses / Lilo Moessner

Some philological implications of punctuation in editions of Middle English texts / Sabina Nedelius

The unfinished double glosses in Durham Cathedral Library, MS A.iv.19 / Christopher Langmuir

Early modern manuscripts containing Old English dictionaries in England and northern Germany / Melanie Vollbrecht

Loss of wiþer -words in English / Marta Sylwanowicz and Anna Wojtyś

Investigating the dynamics of the lexicon / Julia Landmann

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Hardbound version:

ISBN:

9789027247001

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.