Studies in the History of the English Language II : : Unfolding Conversations / / ed. by Anne Curzan, Kimberly Emmons.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bailey, Guy,; Bailey, Richard W.,; Biber, Douglas,; Butters, Ronald R.,; Clark, Brady Z.,; Curzan, Anne,; Eble, Connie,; Emmons, Kimberly,; Fitzmaurice, Susan M.,; Fulk, Robert D.,; Hogg, Richard M.,; Lancashire, Ian,; Li, Xingzhong,; Liberman, Anatoly,; Milroy, Lesley,; Minkova, Donka,; Montgomery, Michael,; Petrova, Olga,; Phillips, Betty S.,; Russom, Geoffrey,; Smitterberg, Erik,; Westerhaus, Jennifer,; White, David L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Curzan, Anne,; Emmons, Kimberly,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 45
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (500 p.)

Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. In the volume, scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical English...

Table of Contents

• i-iv
• Table of contents
• Foreword
• Section 1: Linguistics and philology
• Introduction: Linguistics and philology
• Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w]
• An essay in historical sociolinguistics?: On Donka Minkova’s “Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w]”
• A brief response
• Why we should not believe in short diphthongs
• Extended forms (Streckformen) in English
• Linguistic change in words one owns: How trademarks become “generic”
• Section 2: Corpus- and text-based studies
• Introduction: Corpus- and text-based studies
• The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network
• Investigating the expressive progressive: On Susan M. Fitzmaurice’s “The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network”
• A brief response
• Modal use across registers and time
• The need for good texts: The case of Henry Machyn’s Day Book, 1550-1563
• The perils of firsts: Dating Rawlinson MS Poet. 108 and tracing the development of monolingual English lexicons
• Section 3: Constraint-based studies
• Introduction: Constraint-based studies
• The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter
• Old English poetry and the alliterative revival: On Geoffrey Russom’s “The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter”
• A brief response
• A central metrical prototype for English iambic tetrameter verse: Evidence from Chaucer’s octosyllabic lines
• Early English clause structure change in a stochastic optimality theory setting
• The role of perceptual contrast in Verner’s Law
• Section 4: Dialectology
• Introduction: Dialectology
• Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English
• Digging up the roots of Southern American English: On Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble’s “Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English”
• A brief response
• Vowel merger in west central Indiana: A naughty, knotty project
• The spread of negative contraction in early English
• Name index
• Subject index