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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Aertsen, Henk,; Anderson, John,; Bailey, Guy,; Biber, Douglas,; Blake, N. F.,; Boas, Hans Ulrich,; Chapman, Curtis,; Clark, Cecily,; Colman, Fran,; Curry, Mary Jane,; Dalton-Puffer, Christiane,; Danchev, Andrei,; Denison, David,; Dor, Juliette,; Filppula, Markku,; Finegan, Edward,; Finell, Anne,; Görlach, Manfred,; Jones, Bernard,; Kemenade, Ans van,; King, Anne,; Klemola, Juhani,; Kniezsa, Veronika,; Koopman, Willem F.,; Labov, William,; Laing, Margaret,; Lass, Roger,; Lutz, Angelika,; Mazzon, Gabriella,; McMahon, April M. S.,; Melchers, Gunnel,; Meurman-Solin, Anneli,; Milroy, James,; Minkova, Donka,; Mitchell, Bruce,; Moessner, Lilo,; Montgomery, Michael,; Nagucka, Ruta,; Nielsen, Hans F.,; Nunnally, Thomas E.,; Ogura, Michiko,; Peitsara, Kirsti,; Poussa, Patricia,; Ritt, Nikolaus,; Romaine, Suzanne,; Ross, Garry,; Schendl, Herbert,; Schneider, Edgar W.,; Smith, Jeremy J.,; Stockwell, Robert,; Ukaji, Masatomo,; Van den Eynden, Nadine,; Wright, Laura,
• HerausgeberIn: Ihalainen, Ossi,; Nevalainen, Terttu,; Rissanen, Matti,; Taavitsainen, Irma,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (799 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

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 -- 800