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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Cynthia,; Beal, Joan,; Bergen, Linda van,; Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo,; Black, Merja,; Culpeper, Jonathan,; Denison, David,; Filppula, Markku,; Fischer, Olga,; Gisborne, Nikolas,; Hogg, Richard M.,; Killie, Kristin,; Kytö, Merja,; Lorido, Rodrigo Pérez,; McCully, C. B.,; Meurman-Solin, Anneli,; Minkova, Donka,; Moessner, Lilo,; Nevalainen, Terttu,; Nurmi, Arja,; Paradis, Carita,; Posse, Elena Seoane,; Rosenbach, Anette,; Seppänen, Aimo,; Smitterberg, Erik,; Stein, Dieter,; Vezzosi, Letizia,; Wurff, Wim van der,
• HerausgeberIn: Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo,; Denison, David,; Hogg, Richard M.,; McCully, C. B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (559 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

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