Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics

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Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics

Edited by: Sylvia M. Adamson , Vivien A. Law , Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1990

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Volume 65 | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Cambridge in 1987. It draws together important state-of-the-art' studies in the syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics of Old, Middle and Modern English by prominent figures in the field into a single volume. Core theoretical areas are well represented and there are also major papers in dialectology, stylistics, metrics, socio-historical linguistics and the history of English linguistics.The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor James P. Thorne, whose last conference paper is included in the collection.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
In memoriam James Peter Thorne, 1933–1988 John Lyons Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
List of participants Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
Restandardisation in middle Scots Alex Agutter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
British and American English John Algeo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
The stylistic function of ME gan reconsidered Laurel J. Brinton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
Historical linguistics — linguistic archaeology Cecily Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
The assessment of lexical mortality and replacement between old and modern English Robert Coleman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	69
Preposition stranding and relative complementiser deletion implicational tendencies in English and the other Germanic languages Xavier Dekeyser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
The old English impersonals revived David Denison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
On the unity of the Mercian Second Fronting B. Elan Dresher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
Hugh Blair’s theory of the origin and the basic functions of language Thomas Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
Methodological preliminaries to the study of linguistic change in dialectal English evaluating the grammars of Barnes and Elworthy as sources of linguistic evidence Ossi Ihalainen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
The typological status of old English word-formation Dieter Kastovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
The double object construction in Old English Willem F. Koopman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	225
Where do Extraterritorial Englishes come from? Dialect input and recodification in transported Englishes Roger Lass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
Obsolescence and universal grammar David W. Lightfoot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
On the role of some adverbs in Old English verse grammar Peter G. Lucas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
Adjectival inflexion relics and speech rhythm in late middle English and early modern English Donka Minkova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Modelling functional differentiation and function loss the case of but Terttu Nevalainen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	337
Dating old English inscriptions the limits of inference Ray Page Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
Paradigm arrangement and inflectional homonymy old English case Frans Plank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	379
A contact-universals origins for periphrastic do with special consideration of old English-Celtic contact Patricia Poussa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	407
A new kind metrical evidence in old English poetry Geoffrey Russom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	435
The development of ME from open syllable lenghtening in the west midlands Małgorzata Tecław Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	459
Some modern standard English filters James P. Thorne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	471
Exemplification in Eighteenth century grammars Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	481
From less to more situated in language the unidirectionality of semantic change Elizabeth Closs Traugott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	497
The easy-to-please construction in Old and middle English Wim van der Wurff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	519
Reworking the history of English auxiliaries Anthony Warner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	537
On grounding in English narratives a diachronic perspective Brita Wårvik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	559
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	577

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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.65

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Germanic linguistics; Historical linguistics; English linguistics

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Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics

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