Studies in the History of the English Language

A Millennial Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-3-11-017591-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 743 g

Reihe: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Minkova, Donka

Stockwell, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. MILLENNIAL PERSPECTIVES From etymological 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 Kretzchmar Origin unknown
Anatoly Liberman Issues for a new history of English prosody
Thomas Cable Chaucer: Folk poet or littérateur?
Gilbert Youmans / Xingzhong Li A rejoinder to Youmans and Li
Thomas Cable II. PHONOLOGY AND METRICS On the development of English r
Blaine Erickson Vowel variation in English rhyme
Kristin Hanson Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change
Betty Phillips Dating criteria for Old English poems
Geoffrey Russom How much shifting actually occured in the historical English vowel shift?
Robert Stockwell Restoration of /a/ revisited
David White III. MORPHOSYNTAX / SEMANTICS Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English
Maurizio Gotti Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English
Edward 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 IV. ENVOY A thousand years of the history of English
Richard Bailey

Über Autor(innen)

Donka Minkova is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA. Robert Stockwell is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA.