TY - BOOK AU - Minkova,Donka AU - Stockwell,Robert P. TI - Studies in the history of the English language: a millennial perspective T2 - Topics in English linguistics SN - 3110173689 AV - PE1075 .S88 2002 U1 - 420.9 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Berlin, New York PB - Mouton de Gruyter KW - English language KW - History KW - Grammar, Historical N1 - 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 ER -