Studies in the History of the English Language A Millennial Perspective

Name: Studies in the History of the English Language A Millennial Perspective
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ISBN: 9783110173680

ISBN-10: 3110173689

ISBN-13: 9783110173680

Edition: 2002

Authors: Donka Minkova, Robert P. Stockwell

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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 millennium 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.

Book details

List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Publication date: 7/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Foreword


Millennial perspectives


From etymology to historical pragmatics



Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguistics



Dialectology and the history of the English language



Origin unknown



Issues for a new history of English prosody



Chaucer: Folk poet or litterateur?



A rejoinder to Youmans and Li



Phonology and metrics


On the development of English r



Vowel variation in English rhyme



Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change



Dating criteria for Old English poems



How much shifting actually occurred in the historical English vowel shift?



Restoration of /a/ revisited



Morphosyntax/Semantics


Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English



Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English



Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbs



The "have" perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect?



Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions



The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics



Envoy


A thousand years of the history of English



Name index


Subject index