Why we should not believe in short diphthongs

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Section 1: Linguistics and philology
5. Introduction: Linguistics and philology 3
6. Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w] 7
7. An essay in historical sociolinguistics?: On Donka Minkova’s “Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w]” 47
8. A brief response 55
9. Why we should not believe in short diphthongs 57
10. Extended forms (Streckformen) in English 85
11. Linguistic change in words one owns: How trademarks become “generic” 111
12. Section 2: Corpus- and text-based studies
13. Introduction: Corpus- and text-based studies 127
14. The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network 131
15. Investigating the expressive progressive: On Susan M. Fitzmaurice’s “The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network” 175
16. A brief response 183
17. Modal use across registers and time 189
18. The need for good texts: The case of Henry Machyn’s Day Book, 1550-1563 217
19. The perils of firsts: Dating Rawlinson MS Poet. 108 and tracing the development of monolingual English lexicons 229
20. Section 3: Constraint-based studies
21. Introduction: Constraint-based studies 275
22. The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter 279
23. Old English poetry and the alliterative revival: On Geoffrey Russom’s “The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter” 305
24. A brief response 313
25. A central metrical prototype for English iambic tetrameter verse: Evidence from Chaucer’s octosyllabic lines 315
26. Early English clause structure change in a stochastic optimality theory setting 343
27. The role of perceptual contrast in Verner’s Law 371
28. Section 4: Dialectology
29. Introduction: Dialectology 411
30. Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English 415
31. Digging up the roots of Southern American English: On Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble’s “Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English” 435
32. A brief response 445
33. Vowel merger in west central Indiana: A naughty, knotty project 447
34. The spread of negative contraction in early English 459
35. Name index 483
36. Subject index 491