Studies in the History of the English Language IV : : Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change /

Studies in the History of the English Language IV : : Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change / / ed. by Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Donka Minkova.

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Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change continues the project of initiating and energizing the conversations among historians of the English language fostered by the series of conferences on studying the history of the English language (SHEL), begun in 2000 at UCLA....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Beal, Joan C.,
Cable, Thomas,
Chapman, Don,
Closs Traugott, Elizabeth,
Denison, David,
Dollinger, Stefan,
Eble, Connie,
Fitzgerald, Christina M.,
Fitzmaurice, Susan,
Fulk, R.D.,
Hickey, Raymond,
Hogg, Richard M.,
Labov, William,
Li, Xingzhong,
Minkova, Donka,
Palmer, Chris C.,
Pintzuk, Susan,
Tran Smith, Jennifer Anh-Thu,
Trousdale, Graeme,
HerausgeberIn:
Fitzmaurice, Susan M.,
Minkova, Donka,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 61
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Physical Description:1 online resource (433 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Tabula Laudatoria
  • Introduction: Heuristics and evidence in studying
  • the history of the English language
  • Triggering events
  • What’s new in Old English?
  • Coding the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of
  • Old English Prose to investigate the syntaxpragmatics interface
  • Anglian dialect features in Old English anonymous
  • homiletic literature: A survey, with preliminary findings
  • The elusive progress of prosodical study
  • Fidelity in versification: Modern English
  • translations of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Response to Tom Cable’s comments
  • Metrical evidence: Did Chaucer translate The
  • Romaunt of the Rose?
  • Trochees in an iambic meter: Assumptions or
  • evidence?
  • “Ubbe dubbede him to knith”: The scansion of
  • Havelok and ME -es, -ed, and -ede
  • A response to Tom Cable
  • Patterns and productivity
  • Borrowed derivational morphology in Late Middle
  • English: A study of the records of the London Grocers and
  • Goldsmiths
  • Fixer-uppers and passers-by: Nominalization of
  • verb-particle constructions
  • Words and constructions in grammaticalization: The
  • end of the English impersonal construction
  • Variation in Late Modern English: Making the best
  • use of ‘bad data’
  • English/French bilingualism in nineteenth century
  • Lousiana: A social network analysis
  • Taking permissible shortcuts? Limited evidence,
  • heuristic reasoning and the modal auxiliaries in early Canadian
  • English
  • ‘What strikes the ear’ Thomas Sheridan and regional
  • pronunciation
  • Backmatter

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