Studies in the History of the English Language
A Millennial Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2002
Book
Mixed media product
VI, 496 pages
978-3-11-180938-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 millenium 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.
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Edition
Reprint 2011
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
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Includes a print version and an ebook
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-180938-0 (9783111809380)
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A Millennial Perspective
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A Millennial Perspective
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Persons
Donka Minkova is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA. Robert Stockwell is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA.
Content
I. MILLENNIAL PERSPECTIVES
From etymological to historical pragmaticsElizabeth Closs Traugott
Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguisticsHerbert Schendl
Dialectology and the history of the English languageWilliam Kretzchmar
Origin unknownAnatoly Liberman
Issues for a new history of English prosodyThomas Cable
Chaucer: Folk poet or littérateur?Gilbert Youmans / Xingzhong Li
A rejoinder to Youmans and LiThomas Cable
II. PHONOLOGY AND METRICS
On the development of English rBlaine Erickson
Vowel variation in English rhymeKristin Hanson
Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound changeBetty Phillips
Dating criteria for Old English poemsGeoffrey Russom
How much shifting actually occured in the historical English vowel shift?Robert Stockwell
Restoration of /a/ revisitedDavid White
III. MORPHOSYNTAX / SEMANTICS
Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern EnglishMaurizio Gotti
Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in EnglishEdward Keenan
Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbsAns van Kemenade
The "have" perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect?Jeong-Hoon Lee
Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositionsColette Moore
The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguisticsBenji Wald and Lawrence Besserman
IV. ENVOY
A thousand years of the history of EnglishRichard Bailey