Language Form and Linguistic Variation
Papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1982
VIII, 496 pages
978-90-272-8649-9 (ISBN)
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The papers in this volume celebrate the work of Angus McIntosh, who specialized in dialects of Later Middle English, and wrote on other topics in English linguistics as well. Of the papers in this volume most deal with English and a few with other subjects in (historical) dialectology.
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- LANGUAGE FORM AND LINGUISTIC VARIATION Papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- DEDICATORY PREFACE
- Table of contents
- LEMMATIZATION - THE CASE OF "CATALPA
- NOTES
- MARKING AND FREQUENCY IN THE ENGLISH VERB
- EXAMPLES OF VERBAL CATEGORIES
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- COMPLEMENTS AND HUMOURS
- NOTES
- PROBLEMS IN DYIRBAL DIALECTOLOGY
- 1. Data on Dyirbal dialects
- 2. Data on surrounding languages,
- 3. Phonological variation within Dyirbal.
- 4. Grammatical variation within Dyirbal.
- 5. Lexical correspondences with surrounding languages.
- 6. Lexical variation within Dyirbal.
- 7. Semantic variation.
- REFERENCES
- THE PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE WELSH MUTATIONS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- HAS EVERY SENTENCE A THEME AND A RHEME?
- CONCLUSIONS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- ISOPHONES OR ISOGRAPHS? A PROBLEM IN HISTORICAL DIALECTOLOGY
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- THE DE-AUTOMATIZATION OF GRAMMAR: FROM PRIESTLEY'S "AN INSPECTOR CALLS
- REFERENCES
- THWAITE
- 1. On Norse-Cumbrian contacts: overlords or allies?
- 2. Germanic *pwaito
- NOTES
- RHYMES AND REASONS, THE PRACTICE OF TWO POETS
- NOTES
- TWO GEMINATE CONSONANTS IN OLD ENGLISH?
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- BORROW, CALQUE AND SWITCH: THE LAW OF THE ENGLISH FRONTIER
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- THE STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF POETIC TEXTS: OWEN'S Futility AND DAVIE'S The Garden Party
- I. FUTILITY
- II. THE GARDEN PARTY
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- OLD ENGLISH man 'ONE': TWO NOTES
- SUMMARY
- 1. PROBLEMS OF CLASSIFICATION
- 2. Man + AN ACTIVE VERB FORM AS A PERIPHRASIS FOR THE PASSIVE VOICE
- NOTES
- SIMPLIFYING THE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. CASE-REALIZATION
- 3. DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN DERIVATIONAL AND INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES
- 4. CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- VERBAL ASPECT: A SLAVONIC-ENGLISH COMPARISON
- REFERENCES
- COMMUNICATIVE NEEDS IN THE LEARNING AND USE OF ENGLISH
- Abstract
- Ambiguous roles for English in the third world
- Parallel cultural contrasts in the colonial ideology
- Socialistic aspects of interlanguage English
- Room for choice
- Communicative needs and language learning and using motivations
- Language learning and using motivations
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- GRAMMATICAL DATA BY ELICITATION
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- LATIN FOR OLD ENGLISH IN ANGLO-SAXON MANUSCRIPTS
- NOTES
- WH-AND YES/NO QUESTIONS! CHARLES BUTLER'S 'Grammar (1633) AND THE HISTORY OF A LINGUISTIC CONCEPT
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- SOME ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF THE BE+ING CONSTRUCTION
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II
- APPENDIX III
- APPENDIX IV
- Notes on the graph
- FOOTNOTES
- REFERENCES
- A NOTE ON THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- WRITTEN LANGUAGE AS A HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
