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

Studies in the History of the English Language VIII : : Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in the History of English / / ed. by Peter Grund, Megan Hartman.

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 f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Michael,
Buschfeld, Sarah,
Chapman, Don,
Devitt, Amy J.,
Fulk, R. D.,
Grund, Peter J.,
Hartman, Megan E.,
Hoffman, Angela,
Kytö, Merja,
Liberman, Anatoly,
Minkova, Donka,
Schneider, Edgar W.,
Smitterberg, Erik,
Vea Escarza, Raquel,
HerausgeberIn:
Grund, Peter,
Hartman, Megan,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 108
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Contributor addresses
  • Introduction: Boundaries and boundarycrossings in the history of English
  • Section 1: Conceptual and methodological boundaries
  • 1. Scale and mode in histories of English
  • 2. The blurred boundaries of genres-in-use: Principles and implications from rhetorical genre studies for English historical linguistics
  • 3. Meanderings from early English to World Englishes: A Complex Systems perspective on morphosyntactic changes in wh-pronouns
  • Section 2: Linguistic boundaries
  • 4. First or best, last not least: Domain edges in the history of English
  • 5. Expanding boundaries of a function word: Uses of one in Early Modern and Modern English
  • 6. Non-correlative commas between subjects and verbs in Early and Late Modern English sermons and scientific texts
  • 7. Old English verbs of envy: Class membership and grammatical behaviour
  • Section 3: Language and language variety boundaries
  • 8. Germanic /r/ as an isogloss, rhotacism, and the West Germanic gemination
  • 9. Migration, localities, and discourse: Shifting linguistic boundaries in Swedish-American cookbooks
  • 10. Specimen texts and boundaries in the history of the English language
  • Coda: HEL-bound
  • Index

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