Studies in the History of the English Language V : : Variation and Change in English Grammar and Lexicon: Contemporary Approaches /

Studies in the History of the English Language V : : Variation and Change in English Grammar and Lexicon: Contemporary Approaches / / ed. by William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, Robert A. Cloutier.

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This collection of essays focuses on current approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon. Of the twelve papers in the collection, half are based on grammar and syntax, half on lexical developments. The volume highlights the contributions that strong empirical researc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Branchaw, Sherrylyn,
Chapman, Don,
Filppula, Markku,
Hering, Jürgen,
Klemola, Juhani,
Kuzmack, Stefanie,
Liberman, Anatoly,
Nagano, Akiko,
Nykiel, Joanna,
Runde, Emily,
Svensson, Ann-Marie,
Tacho, Elizabeth,
Thomason, Olga,
Traugott, Elizabeth,
HerausgeberIn:
Cloutier, Robert A.,
Hamilton-Brehm, Anne Marie,
Kretzschmar, Jr., William A.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 68
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Physical Description:1 online resource (329 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • English Grammar
  • Dialogic Contexts as Motivations for Syntactic Change
  • Whatever Happened to English Sluicing
  • Notion of Direction and Old English Prepositional Phrases
  • Survival of the Strongest: Strong Verb Inflection from Old to Modern English
  • Subject Compounding and a Functional Change of the Derivational Suffix -ing in the History of English
  • Bad Ideas in the History of English Usage
  • English Lexicon
  • The State of English Etymology (A Few Personal Observations)
  • From Germanic ‘fence’ to ‘urban settlement’: On the Semantic Development of English town
  • Celtic Influence on English: A Re-Evaluation
  • When arīven Came to England: Tracing Lexical Re-Structuring by Borrowing in Middle and Early Modern English. A Case Study
  • Reexamining Orthographic Practice in the Auchinleck Manuscript Through Study of Complete Scribal Corpora
  • How Medium Shapes Language Development: The Emergence of Quotative Re Online
  • Backmatter

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