Robert Keayne’s Notebooks: A verbatim record of spoken English in early Boston?

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. THEORETICAL OVERVIEW
5. On Textual Parameters and Older Languages 1
6. Methodologies and Ideologies in Historical Linguistics: On working with older languages 33
7. TEXT TYPE
8. The Pragmatic Functions of the Old French Particles AINZ, APRES, DONC, LORS, OR, PUIS, and SI 59
9. Discourse Organization and Anaphora in Latin 107
10. The Importance of Discourse Types in Grammaticalization: The case of anon 139
11. POETICALITY
12. Genre, Discourse, and Syntax in Early Indo-European, with Emphasis on Sanskrit 163
13. Poeticality and Word Order in Old Tamil 197
14. Suppressed Assertion and the Functions of the Final-Attributive in Prose and Poetry of Heian Japanese 237
15. ORALITY
16. Robert Keayne’s Notebooks: A verbatim record of spoken English in early Boston? 273
17. Textual Authenticity: Evidence from Medieval Greek 309
18. Parameters Underlying Punctuation in Older Russian Texts 331
19. DIALECT
20. The Middle English Verb-Second Constraint: A case study in language contact and language change 353
21. A la Recherche du Word Order Not Quite Perdu 393
22. Index of Languages 433
23. Index of Subjects 437