History of Englishes : : New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics / / ed. by Irma Taavitsainen, Matti Rissanen, Ossi Ihalainen, Terttu Nevalainen.

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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] , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (799 p.) :; Num. figs.
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Other title:I-IV --
Preface --
Contents --
I. Theory and methodology --
Translation and the history of English --
The evidence for analytic and synthetic developments in English --
Evidence for regular sound change in English dialect geography --
A social model for the interpretation of language change --
How to study Old English syntax? --
II. Phonology and orthography --
Exceptionality and non-specification in the history of English phonology --
The myth of "the Anglo-Norman scribe" --
Old English ABCs --
What, if anything, was the Great Vowel Shift? --
Lexical and morphological consequences of phonotactic change in the history of English --
Lexical phonology and diachrony --
Homorganic clusters as moric busters in the history of English: the case of -ld, -nd, -mb --
Middle English vowel quantity reconsidered --
III. Morphology and syntax --
On explaining the historical development of English genitives --
A touch of (sub-)class? Old English "Preterite-Present" verbs --
The information present: present tense for communication in the past --
Structural factors in the history of English modals --
Subordinating uses of and in the history of English --
The distribution of verb forms in Old English subordinate clauses --
Relative constructions and functional amalgamation in Early Modern English --
The use of to and for in Old English --
Man's son/son of man: translation, textual conditioning, and the history of the English genitive --
Why is the element order to cwæð him 'said to him' impossible? --
On the development of the by-agent in English --
Pragmatics of this and that --
A valency description of Old English possessive verbs --
Who(m)? Constraints on the loss of case marking of wh-pronouns in the English of Shakespeare and other poets of the Early Modern English period --
"I not say": bridge phenomenon in syntactic change --
IV. Lexis and semantics --
The status of word formation in Middle English: approaching the question --
Post-dating Romance loan-words in Middle English: Are the French words of the Katherine Group English? --
Rich Lake: a case history --
V. Varieties and dialects --
The evolution of a vernacular --
Relativization in the Dorset dialect --
William Barnes and the south west dialect of English --
A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: the value of texts surviving in more than one version --
A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: tradition and typology --
A chapter in the worldwide spread of English: Malta --
"Du's no heard da last o'dis" — on the use of be as a perfective auxiliary in Shetland dialect --
On the morphology of verbs in Middle Scots: present and present perfect indicative --
The pace of change in Appalachian English --
Variability in Old English and the Continental Germanic languages --
Variability in Tok Pisin phonology: "Did you say 'pig' or 'fig'?" --
VI. Text types and individual texts --
Chaucer's Boece: a syntactic and lexical analysis --
The linguistic evolution of five written and speech-based English genres from the 17th to the 20th centuries --
The do variant field in questions and negatives: Jane Austen's Complete Letters and Mansfield Park --
The repertoire of topic changers in personal, intimate letters: a diachronic study of Osborne and Woolf --
Text-types and language history: the cookery recipe --
Macaronic writing in a London archive, 1380—1480 --
Abbreviations of titles of textual sources --
Name index --
Subject index --
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Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110877007
9783110636895
ISSN:1434-3452 ;
DOI:10.1515/9783110877007
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
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