Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective

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Donka Minkova, Robert P. Stockwell
Walter de Gruyter, 2002 - 496 páginas
The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics. Two sample articles can be downloaded for free from our website.
 

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From etymology to historical pragmatics
18
Mixedlanguage texts as data and evidence inEnglish historical linguistics
50
Dialectology and the history of the Englishlanguage
78
Origin unknown
109
Issues for a new history of English prosody
125
Folk poet or littérateur?
153
A rejoinder to Youmans and Li
176
On the development of English r
183
Restoration of a revisited
283
Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions inEarly Modern English
300
Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns inEnglish
324
The position of finite verb and adverbs
355
How close was it to the Modern English perfect?
372
Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slanderdepositions
399
The emergence of the verbverb compound intwentieth century English and twentieth centurylinguistics
416
A thousand years of the history of English
448

Vowel variation in English rhyme
207
Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of soundchange
231
Dating criteria for Old English poems
244
How much shifting actually occurred in thehistorical English vowel shift?
267
Name index
472
Subject index
483
Topics in English Linguistics
497
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