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  • Don Chapman
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Studies in the History of the English Language V
This chapter is in the book Studies in the History of the English Language V

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of Contents V
  3. Introduction 1
  4. English Grammar
  5. Dialogic Contexts as Motivations for Syntactic Change 11
  6. Whatever Happened to English Sluicing 37
  7. Notion of Direction and Old English Prepositional Phrases 67
  8. Survival of the Strongest: Strong Verb Inflection from Old to Modern English 87
  9. Subject Compounding and a Functional Change of the Derivational Suffix -ing in the History of English 111
  10. Bad Ideas in the History of English Usage 141
  11. English Lexicon
  12. The State of English Etymology (A Few Personal Observations) 161
  13. From Germanic ‘fence’ to ‘urban settlement’: On the Semantic Development of English town 187
  14. Celtic Influence on English: A Re-Evaluation 207
  15. When arīven Came to England: Tracing Lexical Re-Structuring by Borrowing in Middle and Early Modern English. A Case Study 231
  16. Reexamining Orthographic Practice in the Auchinleck Manuscript Through Study of Complete Scribal Corpora 265
  17. How Medium Shapes Language Development: The Emergence of Quotative Re Online 293
  18. Backmatter 317
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220339.1.141

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of Contents V
  3. Introduction 1
  4. English Grammar
  5. Dialogic Contexts as Motivations for Syntactic Change 11
  6. Whatever Happened to English Sluicing 37
  7. Notion of Direction and Old English Prepositional Phrases 67
  8. Survival of the Strongest: Strong Verb Inflection from Old to Modern English 87
  9. Subject Compounding and a Functional Change of the Derivational Suffix -ing in the History of English 111
  10. Bad Ideas in the History of English Usage 141
  11. English Lexicon
  12. The State of English Etymology (A Few Personal Observations) 161
  13. From Germanic ‘fence’ to ‘urban settlement’: On the Semantic Development of English town 187
  14. Celtic Influence on English: A Re-Evaluation 207
  15. When arīven Came to England: Tracing Lexical Re-Structuring by Borrowing in Middle and Early Modern English. A Case Study 231
  16. Reexamining Orthographic Practice in the Auchinleck Manuscript Through Study of Complete Scribal Corpora 265
  17. How Medium Shapes Language Development: The Emergence of Quotative Re Online 293
  18. Backmatter 317
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