Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2002

Studies in the History of the English Language

A Millennial Perspective

Edited by: Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell

Volume 39 in the series Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197143

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Donka Minkova is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA. Robert Stockwell is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Millennial perspectives
From etymology to historical pragmatics Elizabeth Closs Traugott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguistics Herbert Schendl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Dialectology and the history of the English language William A. Kretzschmar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Origin unknown Anatoly Liberman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Issues for a new history of English prosody Thomas Cable Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Chaucer: Folk poet or littérateur? Gilbert Youmans and Xingzhong Li Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
A rejoinder to Youmans and Li Thomas Cable Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Phonology and metrics
On the development of English r Blaine Erickson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Vowel variation in English rhyme Kristin Hanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change Betty S. Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Dating criteria for Old English poems Geoffrey Russom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
How much shifting actually occurred in the historical English vowel shift? Robert Stockwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Restoration of /a/ revisited David White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Morphosyntax/Semantics
Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English Maurizio Gotti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English Edward L. Keenan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbs Ans Kemenade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
The “have” perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect? Jeong-Hoon Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions Colette Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics Benji Wald and Lawrence Besserman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
Envoy
A thousand years of the history of English Richard W. Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	473

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2011
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 496
Illustrations
- Other: Num. figs.
Keywords: Sprachgeschichte; Englisch /Sprache

eBook

Published: August 22, 2008
ISBN: 9783110197143

Hardcover

Published: July 30, 2002
ISBN: 9783110173680