History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1992

History of Englishes

New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics

Edited by: Matti Rissanen , Ossi Ihalainen , Terttu Nevalainen and Irma Taavitsainen

Volume 10 in the series Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110877007

Contents

I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
I. Theory and methodology
Translation and the history of English N. F. Blake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
The evidence for analytic and synthetic developments in English Andrei Danchev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Evidence for regular sound change in English dialect geography William Labov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
A social model for the interpretation of language change James Milroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
How to study Old English syntax? Bruce Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
II. Phonology and orthography
Exceptionality and non-specification in the history of English phonology John Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The myth of "the Anglo-Norman scribe" Cecily Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Old English ABCs Anne King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
What, if anything, was the Great Vowel Shift? Roger Lass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Lexical and morphological consequences of phonotactic change in the history of English Angelika Lutz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Lexical phonology and diachrony April M. S. McMahon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Homorganic clusters as moric busters in the history of English: the case of -ld, -nd, -mb Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Middle English vowel quantity reconsidered Nikolaus Ritt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
III. Morphology and syntax
On explaining the historical development of English genitives Hans Ulrich Boas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
A touch of (sub-)class? Old English "Preterite-Present" verbs Fran Colman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
The information present: present tense for communication in the past David Denison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Structural factors in the history of English modals Ans van Kemenade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Subordinating uses of and in the history of English Juhani Klemola and Markku Filppula Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
The distribution of verb forms in Old English subordinate clauses Willem F. Koopman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Relative constructions and functional amalgamation in Early Modern English Lilo Moessner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336
The use of to and for in Old English Ruta Nagucka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	352
Man's son/son of man: translation, textual conditioning, and the history of the English genitive Thomas E. Nunnally Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Why is the element order to cwæð him 'said to him' impossible? Michiko Ogura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
On the development of the by-agent in English Kirsti Peitsara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Pragmatics of this and that Patricia Poussa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
A valency description of Old English possessive verbs Herbert Schendl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	418
Who(m)? Constraints on the loss of case marking of wh-pronouns in the English of Shakespeare and other poets of the Early Modern English period Edgar W. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
"I not say": bridge phenomenon in syntactic change Masatomo Ukaji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453
IV. Lexis and semantics
The status of word formation in Middle English: approaching the question Christiane Dalton-Puffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
Post-dating Romance loan-words in Middle English: Are the French words of the Katherine Group English? Juliette Dor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
Rich Lake: a case history Veronika Kniezsa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	506
V. Varieties and dialects
The evolution of a vernacular Guy Bailey and Garry Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519
Relativization in the Dorset dialect Nadine Van den Eynden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	532
William Barnes and the south west dialect of English Bernard Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	556
A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: the value of texts surviving in more than one version Margaret Laing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	566
A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: tradition and typology Jeremy J. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	582
A chapter in the worldwide spread of English: Malta Gabriella Mazzon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	592
"Du's no heard da last o'dis" — on the use of be as a perfective auxiliary in Shetland dialect Gunnel Melchers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	602
On the morphology of verbs in Middle Scots: present and present perfect indicative Anneli Meurman-Solin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	611
The pace of change in Appalachian English Michael Montgomery and Curtis Chapman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	624
Variability in Old English and the Continental Germanic languages Hans F. Nielsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	640
Variability in Tok Pisin phonology: "Did you say 'pig' or 'fig'?" Suzanne Romaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	647
VI. Text types and individual texts
Chaucer's Boece: a syntactic and lexical analysis Henk Aertsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	671
The linguistic evolution of five written and speech-based English genres from the 17th to the 20th centuries Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	688
The do variant field in questions and negatives: Jane Austen's Complete Letters and Mansfield Park Mary Jane Curry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	705
The repertoire of topic changers in personal, intimate letters: a diachronic study of Osborne and Woolf Anne Finell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	720
Text-types and language history: the cookery recipe Manfred Görlach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	736
Macaronic writing in a London archive, 1380—1480 Laura Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	762
Abbreviations of titles of textual sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	771
Name index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	781
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	791
800 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	800

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2011
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 799
Illustrations
- Other: Num. figs.
Keywords: Englisch; Historische Sprachwissenschaft; Helsinki

eBook

Published: September 8, 2011
ISBN: 9783110877007

Hardcover

Published: October 1, 1992
ISBN: 9783110132168