Studies in the history of the English language :  a millennial perspective / 
edited by Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell. 
 - vi, 496 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Topics in English linguistics ;  39 .
 - Topics in English linguistics ;  39. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> From etymology to historical pragmatics /  Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguistics /  Dialectology and the history of the English language /  Origin unknown /  Issues for a new history of English prosody /  Chaucer: Folk poet or litterateur? /  A rejoinder to Youmans and Li /  On the development of English r /  Vowel variation in English rhyme /  Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change /  Dating criteria for Old English poems /  How much shifting actually occurred in the historical English vowel shift? /  Restoration of /a/ revisited /  Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English /  Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English /  Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbs /  The "have" perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect? /  Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions /  The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics /  A thousand years of the history of English /  Elizabeth Closs Traugott --  Herbert Schendl --  William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. --  Anatoly Liberman --  Thomas Cable --  Gilbert Youmans and Xingzhong Li --  Thomas Cable --  Blaine Erickson --  Kristin Hanson --  Betty S. Phillips --  Geoffrey Russom --  Robert Stockwell --  David White --  Maurizio Gotti --  Edward L. Keenan --  Ans van Kemenade --  Jeong-Hoon Lee --  Colette Moore --  Benji Wald and Lawrence Besserman --  Richard W. Bailey. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>3110173689 9783110173680 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002067795 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--History<br/>English language--Grammar, Historical
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1075  / .S88 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>420.9