Bergs / Brinton English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2

An International Handbook. Volume 2
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-025160-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 2, 1164 Seiten

Reihe: English Historical Linguistics

The handbook English Historical Linguistics offers in more than 130 articles in two volumes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and theory neutral overview of all central aspects of the history of English.

The first volume contains detailed descriptions of the individual linguistic levels, from phonology to syntax, semantics and pragmatics, for each period of the language, from Old English to Late Modern English. Moreover, the volume offers chapters on particular topics pertaining to individual periods such as the ‘Great Vowel Shift’, standardization, and do-periphrasis.

The second volume takes on a broader perspective and addresses more theoretical concerns. It covers topics such as resources for studying and teaching the history of English, historiography, the history of the discipline itself, theoretical approaches to studying language variation and change, including recent research trends, and the history of Englishes in the twentieth century and around the world.

Zielgruppe

Libraries, Academic Institutes, for Scholars of Linguistics in General, Historical, and English Linguistics , as well as allied fields such as History, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture, but also reference work for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in Historical Linguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bergs, Alexander

Brinton, Laurel J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface to the Handbook of English Historical Linguistics;11
2;Acknowledgments;15
3;In memoriam;17
4;General abbreviations;19
5;IX. Resources;23
5.1;71. Early textual resources;23
5.2;72. Electronic/online resources;35
5.3;73. Lexicographic resources;53
5.4;74. Teaching perspectives;67
5.5;75. Textbooks;82
5.6;76. Online resources for teaching;94
6;X. Interdisciplinarity and Historiography;105
6.1;77. Literature;105
6.2;78. Music as a language – the history of an idea;118
6.3;79. Periodization in the history of the English language;137
6.4;80. Myths of the English language; or, alternative histories of “English”;160
6.5;81. Spoken and written English – orality and literacy;178
7;XI. History of English Historical Linguistics;193
7.1;82. Overview;193
7.2;83. The historiography of the English language;199
7.3;84. North America;217
7.4;85. Germany and the German-speaking countries;229
7.5;86. The Netherlands and Belgium;245
7.6;87. Northern Europe;258
7.7;88. East-Central and Eastern Europe;279
7.8;89. Southern Europe;301
7.9;90. Asia - Minoji Akimoto;318
8;XII. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods;325
8.1;91. Historical dialectology;325
8.2;92. Historical sociolinguistics;342
8.3;93. Historical pragmatics;361
8.4;94. Information structure and syntax in the history of English;379
8.5;95. The actuation problem revisited;394
8.6;96. Corpus linguistics;413
8.7;97. Frequency and language change;435
8.8;98. Lexical diffusion;450
8.9;99. Grammaticalization;462
8.10;100. Lexicalization;481
8.11;101. Diachronic change and language acquisition;503
8.12;102. Generative approaches to English historical linguistics;517
8.13;103. Construction Grammar;535
8.14;104. Lexical Functional Grammar;550
9;XIII. English in Contact;563
9.1;105. German and Dutch;563
9.2;106. French;575
9.3;107. Celtic and Celtic Englishes;591
9.4;108. Latin;607
9.5;109. Greek;623
9.6;110. Norse;628
9.7;111. English in contact with other European languages;642
9.8;112. Native American Languages;657
9.9;113. Pidgins and creoles;671
9.10;114. Middle English creolization;685
9.11;115. African American English (AAE) early evidence;697
10;XIV. Varieties of English;713
10.1;116. American English;713
10.2;117. Re-viewing the origins and history of African American Language;730
10.3;118. Regional varieties of American English;743
10.4;119. Canadian English in real-time perspective;762
10.5;120. Standard British English;783
10.6;121. Received Pronunciation;803
10.7;122. Estuary English;817
10.8;123. Regional varieties of British English Christian Langstrof;832
10.9;124. Scots;855
10.10;125. English in Ireland;865
10.11;126. English in Wales;881
10.12;127. Australian/New Zealand English;899
10.13;128. Cockney;917
10.14;129. Diffusion;935
10.15;130. Dialect contact;948
10.16;131. Supraregionalization;964
11;XV. Second-Language Varieties;981
11.1;132. English in India;981
11.2;133. English in Africa – a diachronic typology;996
11.3;134. Second-language varieties of English;1010
11.4;135. English-based Creoles;1024
11.5;136. Global English;1039
12;Index;1055

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Bergs, University of Osnabrück, Germany; Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.