Title Studies in the history of the English language IV : empirical and analytical advances in the study of English language change / edited by Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Donka Minkova

Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 433 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; 61 Topics in English linguistics ; 61. 1434-3452 Contents Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Tabula Laudatoria -- Introduction: Heuristics and evidence in studying -- the history of the English language -- Triggering events -- What's new in Old English? -- Coding the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of -- Old English Prose to investigate the syntaxpragmatics interface -- Anglian dialect features in Old English anonymous -- homiletic literature: A survey, with preliminary findings -- The elusive progress of prosodical study -- Fidelity in versification: Modern English -- translations of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Response to Tom Cable's comments -- Metrical evidence: Did Chaucer translate The -- Romaunt of the Rose? -- Trochees in an iambic meter: Assumptions or -- evidence? -- "Ubbe dubbede him to knith": The scansion of -- Havelok and ME -es, -ed, and -ede -- A response to Tom Cable -- Patterns and productivity -- Borrowed derivational morphology in Late Middle -- English: A study of the records of the London Grocers and -- Goldsmiths -- Fixer-uppers and passers-by: Nominalization of -- verb-particle constructions -- Words and constructions in grammaticalization: The -- end of the English impersonal construction -- Variation in Late Modern English: Making the best -- use of 'bad data' -- English/French bilingualism in nineteenth century -- Lousiana: A social network analysis -- Taking permissible shortcuts? Limited evidence, -- heuristic reasoning and the modal auxiliaries in early Canadian -- English -- 'What strikes the ear' Thomas Sheridan and regional -- pronunciation -- Backmatter Summary Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change continues the project of initiating and energizing the conversations among historians of the English language fostered by the series of conferences on studying the history of the English language (SHEL), begun in 2000 at UCLA. It follows in the footsteps of three high-profile SHEL-based collections of peer-reviewed research papers and point-counterpoint commentaries. In the current volume, the editors invited contributors to reflect upon their approaches and practices in undertaking historical studies, focusing particula Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject English language -- History. English language -- Grammar, Historical. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. English language English language -- Grammar, Historical Sprachwandel English language -- History. English language -- Grammar, Historical. Engelska språket -- historia. Engelska språket -- grammatik. Englisch. Genre/Form History Flagstaff (Ariz., 2005) Kongress. Form Electronic book Author Fitzmaurice, Susan M. Minkova, Donka, 1944- LC no. 2008040565 ISBN 9783110211801 3110211807 1283398265 9781283398268 9786613398260 6613398268

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