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Studies in the history of the English language : a millennial perspective / edited by Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English linguistics ; 39.Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002Description: vi, 496 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 3110173689
  • 9783110173680
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420.9 21
LOC classification:
  • PE1075 .S88 2002
Contents:
From etymology to historical pragmatics / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguistics / Herbert Schendl -- Dialectology and the history of the English language / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. -- Origin unknown / Anatoly Liberman -- Issues for a new history of English prosody / Thomas Cable -- Chaucer: Folk poet or litterateur? / Gilbert Youmans and Xingzhong Li -- A rejoinder to Youmans and Li / Thomas Cable -- On the development of English r / Blaine Erickson -- Vowel variation in English rhyme / Kristin Hanson -- Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change / Betty S. Phillips -- Dating criteria for Old English poems / Geoffrey Russom -- How much shifting actually occurred in the historical English vowel shift? / Robert Stockwell -- Restoration of /a/ revisited / David White -- Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English / Maurizio Gotti -- Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English / Edward L. Keenan -- Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbs / Ans van Kemenade -- The "have" perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect? / Jeong-Hoon Lee -- Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions / Colette Moore -- The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics / Benji Wald and Lawrence Besserman -- A thousand years of the history of English / Richard W. Bailey.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

From etymology to historical pragmatics / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguistics / Herbert Schendl -- Dialectology and the history of the English language / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. -- Origin unknown / Anatoly Liberman -- Issues for a new history of English prosody / Thomas Cable -- Chaucer: Folk poet or litterateur? / Gilbert Youmans and Xingzhong Li -- A rejoinder to Youmans and Li / Thomas Cable -- On the development of English r / Blaine Erickson -- Vowel variation in English rhyme / Kristin Hanson -- Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change / Betty S. Phillips -- Dating criteria for Old English poems / Geoffrey Russom -- How much shifting actually occurred in the historical English vowel shift? / Robert Stockwell -- Restoration of /a/ revisited / David White -- Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English / Maurizio Gotti -- Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English / Edward L. Keenan -- Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbs / Ans van Kemenade -- The "have" perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect? / Jeong-Hoon Lee -- Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions / Colette Moore -- The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics / Benji Wald and Lawrence Besserman -- A thousand years of the history of English / Richard W. Bailey.

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