History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics

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History of Englishes

New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1992

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Preface
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Contents
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I. Theory and methodology
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Translation and the history of English
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N. F. Blake

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The evidence for analytic and synthetic developments in English
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Andrei Danchev

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Evidence for regular sound change in English dialect geography
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William Labov

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A social model for the interpretation of language change
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James Milroy

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How to study Old English syntax?
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Bruce Mitchell

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II. Phonology and orthography
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Exceptionality and non-specification in the history of English phonology
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John Anderson

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The myth of "the Anglo-Norman scribe"
117
Cecily Clark

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Old English ABCs
130
Anne King

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What, if anything, was the Great Vowel Shift?
144
Roger Lass

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Lexical and morphological consequences of phonotactic change in the history of English
156
Angelika Lutz

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Lexical phonology and diachrony
167
April M. S. McMahon

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Homorganic clusters as moric busters in the history of English: the case of -ld, -nd, -mb
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Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell

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Middle English vowel quantity reconsidered
207
Nikolaus Ritt

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III. Morphology and syntax
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On explaining the historical development of English genitives
225
Hans Ulrich Boas

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A touch of (sub-)class? Old English "Preterite-Present" verbs
241
Fran Colman

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The information present: present tense for communication in the past
262
David Denison

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Structural factors in the history of English modals
287
Ans van Kemenade

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Subordinating uses of and in the history of English
310
Juhani Klemola and Markku Filppula

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The distribution of verb forms in Old English subordinate clauses
319
Willem F. Koopman

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Relative constructions and functional amalgamation in Early Modern English
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Lilo Moessner

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The use of to and for in Old English
352
Ruta Nagucka

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Man's son/son of man: translation, textual conditioning, and the history of the English genitive
359
Thomas E. Nunnally

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Why is the element order to cwæð him 'said to him' impossible?
373
Michiko Ogura

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On the development of the by-agent in English
379
Kirsti Peitsara

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Pragmatics of this and that
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Patricia Poussa

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A valency description of Old English possessive verbs
418
Herbert Schendl

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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
Edgar W. Schneider

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"I not say": bridge phenomenon in syntactic change
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Masatomo Ukaji

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IV. Lexis and semantics
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The status of word formation in Middle English: approaching the question
465
Christiane Dalton-Puffer

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Post-dating Romance loan-words in Middle English: Are the French words of the Katherine Group English?
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Juliette Dor

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Rich Lake: a case history
506
Veronika Kniezsa

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V. Varieties and dialects
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The evolution of a vernacular
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Guy Bailey and Garry Ross

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Relativization in the Dorset dialect
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Nadine Van den Eynden

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William Barnes and the south west dialect of English
556
Bernard Jones

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A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: the value of texts surviving in more than one version
566
Margaret Laing

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A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: tradition and typology
582
Jeremy J. Smith

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A chapter in the worldwide spread of English: Malta
592
Gabriella Mazzon

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"Du's no heard da last o'dis" — on the use of be as a perfective auxiliary in Shetland dialect
602
Gunnel Melchers

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On the morphology of verbs in Middle Scots: present and present perfect indicative
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Anneli Meurman-Solin

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The pace of change in Appalachian English
624
Michael Montgomery and Curtis Chapman

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Variability in Old English and the Continental Germanic languages
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Hans F. Nielsen

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Variability in Tok Pisin phonology: "Did you say 'pig' or 'fig'?"
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Suzanne Romaine

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VI. Text types and individual texts
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Chaucer's Boece: a syntactic and lexical analysis
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Henk Aertsen

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The linguistic evolution of five written and speech-based English genres from the 17th to the 20th centuries
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Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan

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The do variant field in questions and negatives: Jane Austen's Complete Letters and Mansfield Park
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Mary Jane Curry

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The repertoire of topic changers in personal, intimate letters: a diachronic study of Osborne and Woolf
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Anne Finell

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Text-types and language history: the cookery recipe
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Manfred Görlach

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Macaronic writing in a London archive, 1380—1480
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Laura Wright

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Abbreviations of titles of textual sources
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Name index
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Subject index
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History of Englishes

Overview

Topics

Table of contents

I-IV

Preface

Contents

Translation and the history of English

The evidence for analytic and synthetic developments in English

Evidence for regular sound change in English dialect geography

A social model for the interpretation of language change

How to study Old English syntax?

Exceptionality and non-specification in the history of English phonology

The myth of "the Anglo-Norman scribe"

Old English ABCs

What, if anything, was the Great Vowel Shift?

Lexical and morphological consequences of phonotactic change in the history of English

Lexical phonology and diachrony

Homorganic clusters as moric busters in the history of English: the case of -ld, -nd, -mb

Middle English vowel quantity reconsidered

On explaining the historical development of English genitives

A touch of (sub-)class? Old English "Preterite-Present" verbs

The information present: present tense for communication in the past

Structural factors in the history of English modals

Subordinating uses of and in the history of English

The distribution of verb forms in Old English subordinate clauses

Relative constructions and functional amalgamation in Early Modern English

The use of to and for in Old English

Man's son/son of man: translation, textual conditioning, and the history of the English genitive

Why is the element order to cwæð him 'said to him' impossible?

On the development of the by-agent in English

Pragmatics of this and that

A valency description of Old English possessive verbs

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

"I not say": bridge phenomenon in syntactic change

The status of word formation in Middle English: approaching the question

Post-dating Romance loan-words in Middle English: Are the French words of the Katherine Group English?

Rich Lake: a case history

The evolution of a vernacular

Relativization in the Dorset dialect

William Barnes and the south west dialect of English

A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: the value of texts surviving in more than one version

A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: tradition and typology

A chapter in the worldwide spread of English: Malta

"Du's no heard da last o'dis" — on the use of be as a perfective auxiliary in Shetland dialect

On the morphology of verbs in Middle Scots: present and present perfect indicative

The pace of change in Appalachian English

Variability in Old English and the Continental Germanic languages

Variability in Tok Pisin phonology: "Did you say 'pig' or 'fig'?"

Chaucer's Boece: a syntactic and lexical analysis

The linguistic evolution of five written and speech-based English genres from the 17th to the 20th centuries

The do variant field in questions and negatives: Jane Austen's Complete Letters and Mansfield Park

The repertoire of topic changers in personal, intimate letters: a diachronic study of Osborne and Woolf

Text-types and language history: the cookery recipe

Macaronic writing in a London archive, 1380—1480

Abbreviations of titles of textual sources

Name index

Subject index

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