Generative Theory and Corpus Studies : : A Dialogue from 10 ICEHL / / ed. by Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, David Denison, Richard M. Hogg, C. B. McCully.

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 31
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Physical Description:1 online resource (559 p.) :; Num. figs.
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Other title:I-IV --
Preface --
Contents --
1. Structure --
1.1. Continuity versus discontinuity --
Obsolescence and sudden death in syntax: The decline of verb-final order in early Middle English --
On the history of relative that --
The complementation of verbs of appearance by adverbs --
On the use of current intuition as a bias in historical linguistics: The case of the LOOK + -ly construction in English --
The indefinite pronoun man: “nominal“ or “pronominal”? --
1.2. Form and function --
Coordinate deletion, directionality and underlying structure in Old English --
The position of the adjective in Old English --
On the history of the s-genitive --
The passive as an object foregrounding device in early Modern English --
Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation --
2. Text types --
Variation and change: Text types and the modelling of syntactic change --
The progressive form and genre variation during the nineteenth century --
The conjunction and in early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts --
3. Sociolinguistics and dialectology --
Processes of supralocalisation and the rise of Standard English in the early Modern period --
The rise and fall of periphrastic DO in early Modern English, or “Howe the Scots will declare themselv ’s” --
Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century --
Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots --
Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English --
Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography --
4. Phonology --
HappY-tensing: A recent innovation? --
Syllable ONSET in the history of English --
Name index --
Subject index
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110814699
9783110238570
9783110238457
9783110636970
9783110742961
ISSN:1434-3452 ;
DOI:10.1515/9783110814699
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Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, David Denison, Richard M. Hogg, C. B. McCully.