Studies in the History of the English Language II : : Unfolding Conversations / / ed. by Anne Curzan, Kimberly Emmons.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (500 p.) |
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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