van Kemenade / Los The Handbook of the History of English

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75680-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 672 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection ofarticles written by leading specialists in the field that focus onthe theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing Englishlanguage.
* * organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of thechanging English language innovatively and applies recent insightsto old problems
* surveys the history of English from the perspective ofstructural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody,morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, anddialectology
* offers readers a comprehensive overview of the varioustheoretical perspectives available to the study of the history ofEnglish and sets new objectives for further research

Autoren/Hrsg.

van Kemenade, Ans

Los, Bettelou

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' Introduction.
Notes on Contributors.
Part I: Approaches and issues.
1. Change for the Better? Optimality Theory versus History:April McMahon (University of Sheffield).
2. Cueing a New Grammar: David Lightfoot (GeorgetownUniversity).
3. Variation and the Interpretation of Change in periphrasticDO: Anthony Warner (University of York).
4. Evolutionary Models and Functional-Typological Theories ofLanguage Change: William Croft (University of New Mexico).
Part II: Words: derivation and prosody.
5. Old and Middle English Prosody: Donka Minkova (UCLA).
6. Prosodic Preferences: From Old English to Early ModernEnglish: Paula Fikkert (Radboud University Nijmegen, TheNetherlands), Elan Dresher (University of Toronto, Canada) andAditi Lahiri (University of Konstanz, Germany).
7. Typological Changes in Derivational Morphology: DieterKastovsky (University of Vienna).
8. Competition in English Word Formation: Laurie Bauer (VictoriaUniversity of Wellington).
Part III: Inflectional morphology and syntax.
9. Case Syncretism and Word Order Change: Cynthia Allen(Australian National University).
10. Discourse Adverbs and Clausal Syntax in Old and MiddleEnglish: Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen) andBettelou Los (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
11. The loss of OV Order in the History of English: SusanPintzuk and Ann Taylor (both University of York).
12. Category Change and Gradience in the Determiner System:David Denison (University of Manchester).
Part IV: Pragmatics.
13. Pathways in the development of pragmatic markers in English:Laurel Brinton (University of British Columbia).
14. The Semantic Development of Scalar Focus Modifiers:Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University).
15. Information Structure and Word Order Change: The Passive asan Information Rearranging Strategy in the History of English:Elena Seoane (University of Santiago de Compostela).
Part V: Pre- and postcolonial varieties.
16. Old English Dialectology: Richard Hogg (University ofManchester).
17. Early Middle English Dialectology: Problems and Prospects:Margaret Laing (University of Edinburgh) and Roger Lass (Universityof Cape Town).
18. How English became African American English: Shana Poplack(University of Ottawa).
19. Historical Change in Synchronic Perspective: The Legacy ofBritish Dialects: Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto).
20. The making of Hiberno-English and other 'Celtic Englishes':Markku Filppula (University of Joensuu).
Part VI: Standardisation and globalization.
21. Eighteenth-century Prescriptivism and the Norm ofCorrectness: Ingrid Tieken - Boon van Ostade (University ofLeiden).
22. Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change: TerttuNevalainen (University of Helsinki).
23. Global English: From Island Tongue to World Language:Suzanne Romaine (University of Oxford).
Appendix: Useful Corpora for Research in English HistoricalLinguistics.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ans van Kemenade is Professor in the Department of Englishat the Radboud University Nijmegen, and is author of SyntacticCase and Morphological Case in the History of English (1987),and The Syntax of Early English (2000; with O. Fischer, W.Koopman, and W. van der Wurff).
Bettelou Los is a lecturer in the Department of Englishat the Radboud University Nijmegen. She is author of InfinitivalComplementation in Old and Middle English (1999) and TheRise of the to-infinitive (2005).