Studies in the History of the English Language VIII: Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in the History of English

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2021

Studies in the History of the English Language VIII

Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in the History of English

Edited by: Peter J. Grund and Megan E. Hartman

Volume 108 in the series Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643282

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About this book

This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The concept of boundaries is variously defined within linguistics depending on the theoretical framework, from formal and theoretical perspectives to specific fields and more empirical, physical, and perceptual angles. The contributions to this volume do not take one particular theoretical or methodological approach but, instead, explore how examining various types of boundaries—linguistic, conceptual, analytical, generic, physical—helps us illuminate and account for historical use, variation, and change in English. In their exploration of various topics in the history of English, contributions ask a range of questions: what does it mean to set up boundaries between time periods? When do language varieties have distinct boundaries and when do they overlap? Where do language users draw up clausal, constructional, semantic, phonetic/phonological boundaries? Thus, the chapters explore not only how boundaries illustrate synchronic and diachronic features in the history of the English language but also what we can discover by questioning perceived or actual boundaries.

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Peter J. Grund, & Megan E. Hartman, University of Kansas, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contributor addresses Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction: Boundaries and boundarycrossings in the history of English Peter J. Grund and Megan E. Hartman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section 1: Conceptual and methodological boundaries
1. Scale and mode in histories of English Michael Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. The blurred boundaries of genres-in-use: Principles and implications from rhetorical genre studies for English historical linguistics Amy J. Devitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. Meanderings from early English to World Englishes: A Complex Systems perspective on morphosyntactic changes in wh-pronouns Edgar W. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Section 2: Linguistic boundaries
4. First or best, last not least: Domain edges in the history of English Donka Minkova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
5. Expanding boundaries of a function word: Uses of one in Early Modern and Modern English Edgar W. Schneider and Sarah Buschfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
6. Non-correlative commas between subjects and verbs in Early and Late Modern English sermons and scientific texts Erik Smitterberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
7. Old English verbs of envy: Class membership and grammatical behaviour Raquel Vea Escarza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Section 3: Language and language variety boundaries
8. Germanic /r/ as an isogloss, rhotacism, and the West Germanic gemination Anatoly Liberman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
9. Migration, localities, and discourse: Shifting linguistic boundaries in Swedish-American cookbooks Angela Hoffman and Merja Kytö Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
10. Specimen texts and boundaries in the history of the English language Don Chapman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Coda: HEL-bound R. D. Fulk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: History of the English Language; Historical Linguistics; English Linguistics
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 284
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 13
- Coloured Illustrations: 7
- Tables: 21
Keywords: History of the English Language; Corpus Linguistics; Boundaries; Empirical

eBook

Published: November 9, 2020
ISBN: 9783110643282

Hardcover

Published: November 9, 2020
ISBN: 9783110627251