Studies in the History of the English Language : : A Millennial Perspective / / ed. by Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bailey, Richard W.,; Besserman, Lawrence,; Cable, Thomas,; Closs Traugott, Elizabeth,; Erickson, Blaine,; Gotti, Maurizio,; Hanson, Kristin,; Keenan, Edward L.,; Kemenade, Ans,; Kretzschmar, William A.,; Lee, Jeong-Hoon,; Li, Xingzhong,; Liberman, Anatoly,; Moore, Colette,; Phillips, Betty S.,; Russom, Geoffrey,; Schendl, Herbert,; Stockwell, Robert,; Wald, Benji,; White, David,; Youmans, Gilbert,
• HerausgeberIn: Minkova, Donka,; Stockwell, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 39
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.) :; Num. figs.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Millennial perspectives -- 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 littérateur? -- A rejoinder to Youmans and Li -- Phonology and metrics -- 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 -- Morphosyntax/Semantics -- 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 -- Envoy -- A thousand years of the history of English -- Backmatter