Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics

Name: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics | A multi-dimensional approach
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A multi-dimensional approach

Manfred Markus Yoko Iyeiri Reinhard Heuberger Emil Chamson(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 11. April 2012

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Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Aim of the present volume
2. Overview of the present volume
2.1 Corpus linguistics today and tomorrow
2.2 Aspects of language change
2.3 Middle and Modern English case studies
2.4 Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter
References
Part I. Corpus linguistics today and tomorrow
Can't see the wood for the trees?
1. Introduction
2. Corpora of Late Modern English
3. The progressive
4. "Prescriptive" grammars
5. Late Modern English phonology: The Cinderella of Cinderellas?
6. Conclusion
References
Spelling variation in Middle English manuscripts
1. The problem of spelling research in Middle English and the Wycliffe Corpus
1.1 Spelling in Middle English
1.2 The Wycliffe Corpus
2. Spelling variation in manuscripts
2.1 Integration of manuscripts: Issues
2.2 General variables in manuscripts
2.3 More specific spelling variation in manuscripts
3. Spelling variation and lexical research
4. Conclusion: An integrated Middle English spelling research corpus
List of manuscripts used in illustrations
References
Part II. Aspects of language change
The development of compound numerals in English Biblical translations
1. Introduction
2. Corpora investigated
3. Translation methods of compound numerals
3.1 Compound numerals in the Hebrew Old Testament and the Four Greek Gospels
3.2 Middle and modern types in English Bibles
4. Conclusion
Corpora investigated
References
The complements of causative make in Late Middle English
1. Introduction
2. Three different forms of complements
3. Linguistic conditions related to the choice of complement forms
3.1 Previous studies
3.2 Elements between the matrix verb and the complement
3.3 The make believe type
3.4 Coordination of complements
3.5 Infinitives of different verbs
4. Conclusions
References
The pragmaticalization and intensification of verily, truly and really
1. Introduction and aims
2. Corpus analysis and theoretical framework
3. Present-day meanings: Adverbial classification
4. Semantic-pragmatic developments of verily, truly and really
4.1 Verily, verily, I say unto thee
4.2 I tell you truly...
4.3 The late development of really
5. Conclusions and theoretical implications
Online resources and dictionaries
References
Concept-driven semasiology and onomasiology of CLERGY
1. Introduction
2. Description of the lexical material
3. Corpus description and search procedure
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions
Corpus
Dictionaries
References
ANGER and TENE in Middle English
1. Introduction
2. The evidence of the Middle English Dictionary lemmas
3. The evidence of the Innsbruck Prose Corpus and the MiddleEnglish Dictionary quotations: Macro-contexts
4. Micro-contexts
4.1 Parts of speech and word formation
4.2 Syntactic contexts
5. Conclusion and interpretation
References
Appendix
Part III. Middle and Modern English case studies
The subjunctive vs. modal auxiliaries
1. Introduction
2. Data and method
2.1 Distinctive subjunctives and modal auxiliaries in Late Middle English
2.2 Method
2.3 Materials
3. Previous studies
4. Analysis of data
4.1 Occurrence and frequency
4.2 Varieties of verbs
4.3 Varieties of modals
4.4 Verbs, nouns and adjectives introducing lest-clauses
5. Text categories
5.1 Overview
5.2 Type 1
5.3 Type 2
5.4 Type 3
5.5 Differences between written and spoken texts
6. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Some notes on the distribution of the quantifier all in Middle English
1. Introduction
2. Syntactic positions of the Middle English quantifier all
2.1 All with a noun phrase
2.2 All with pronoun
2.3 Floating quantifier
3. Word order of all and subject pronoun
3.1 Dialect and date
3.2 Grammatical person
3.3 Clause type
4. Syntactic position of all
5. Conclusion
References
Interjections in Middle English
1. What are interjections?
2. Research on interjections in Middle English
3. Chaucer's "The Reeve's Tale"
4. Inventory of interjections in "The Reeve's Tale"
5. Characterization of figures
6. Phonologic and morphologic aspects
7. Position within the sentence
8. Semantic and pragmatic aspects
9. Etymology
10. Chaucer's interjections in "The Reeve's Tale" and their frequency in Middle English
11. Chaucerian and Middle English interjections not attested in "The Reeve's Tale"
Primary sources
Dictionaries, concordances, etc.
References
Why and what in Early Modern English drama
1. Introduction
2. Data and methodology
3. Why and what
4. Empirical analysis
5. Conclusion
References
Colloquialization and not-contraction in nineteenth-century English
1. Introduction
1.1 Aim and scope
1.2 Not-contraction and colloquialization in Late Modern and Present-day English
2. Material and data
2.1 Material
2.2 Data
3. Results
4. Discussion
References
Part IV. Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter
The complexity and diversity of the words in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary
1. Introduction
2. The complexity of (historical) dialect as represented by EDD Online
3. Structural complexity of EDD entries
4. Conclusion and outlook
References
Etymology in the English Dialect Dictionary
1. Introduction
2. Study sample
3. Status of etymology in the EDD
4. Presentation and types of information
5. Comparison with other sources
6. Conclusion
References
Towards an understanding of Joseph Wright's sources
1. Introduction
2. EDD sources: A general overview
3. Bishop White Kennett and his glossary to Parochial Antiquities (1695)
4. Kennett's glossary and the EDD
5. Concluding remarks
References
The importance of being Janus
1. Introduction
2. North vs. South as dialects
3. Isoglosses and their limits
4. Dialect connections
5. Conclusion
References
... ging uns der ganze alte Dialektbegriff in eine Illusion auf
1. Prologue: Alois Brandl's disappointment
2. The diffusion of pidgins and creoles: A case of globalization of vernacular features
3. World Non-Standard English (WNSE)
References
Index

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