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Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. I. Theory and methodology
5. Translation and the history of English 3
6. The evidence for analytic and synthetic developments in English 25
7. Evidence for regular sound change in English dialect geography 42
8. A social model for the interpretation of language change 72
9. How to study Old English syntax? 92
10. II. Phonology and orthography
11. Exceptionality and non-specification in the history of English phonology 103
12. The myth of "the Anglo-Norman scribe" 117
13. Old English ABCs 130
14. What, if anything, was the Great Vowel Shift? 144
15. Lexical and morphological consequences of phonotactic change in the history of English 156
16. Lexical phonology and diachrony 167
17. Homorganic clusters as moric busters in the history of English: the case of -ld, -nd, -mb 191
18. Middle English vowel quantity reconsidered 207
19. III. Morphology and syntax
20. On explaining the historical development of English genitives 225
21. A touch of (sub-)class? Old English "Preterite-Present" verbs 241
22. The information present: present tense for communication in the past 262
23. Structural factors in the history of English modals 287
24. Subordinating uses of and in the history of English 310
25. The distribution of verb forms in Old English subordinate clauses 319
26. Relative constructions and functional amalgamation in Early Modern English 336
27. The use of to and for in Old English 352
28. Man's son/son of man: translation, textual conditioning, and the history of the English genitive 359
29. Why is the element order to cwæð him 'said to him' impossible? 373
30. On the development of the by-agent in English 379
31. Pragmatics of this and that 401
32. A valency description of Old English possessive verbs 418
33. Who(m)? Constraints on the loss of case marking of wh-pronouns in the English of Shakespeare and other poets of the Early Modern English period 437
34. "I not say": bridge phenomenon in syntactic change 453
35. IV. Lexis and semantics
36. The status of word formation in Middle English: approaching the question 465
37. Post-dating Romance loan-words in Middle English: Are the French words of the Katherine Group English? 483
38. Rich Lake: a case history 506
39. V. Varieties and dialects
40. The evolution of a vernacular 519
41. Relativization in the Dorset dialect 532
42. William Barnes and the south west dialect of English 556
43. A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: the value of texts surviving in more than one version 566
44. A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: tradition and typology 582
45. A chapter in the worldwide spread of English: Malta 592
46. "Du's no heard da last o'dis" — on the use of be as a perfective auxiliary in Shetland dialect 602
47. On the morphology of verbs in Middle Scots: present and present perfect indicative 611
48. The pace of change in Appalachian English 624
49. Variability in Old English and the Continental Germanic languages 640
50. Variability in Tok Pisin phonology: "Did you say 'pig' or 'fig'?" 647
51. VI. Text types and individual texts
52. Chaucer's Boece: a syntactic and lexical analysis 671
53. The linguistic evolution of five written and speech-based English genres from the 17th to the 20th centuries 688
54. The do variant field in questions and negatives: Jane Austen's Complete Letters and Mansfield Park 705
55. The repertoire of topic changers in personal, intimate letters: a diachronic study of Osborne and Woolf 720
56. Text-types and language history: the cookery recipe 736
57. Macaronic writing in a London archive, 1380—1480 762
58. Abbreviations of titles of textual sources 771
59. Name index 781
60. Subject index 791
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