Studies in the History of the English Language

by Fuhrmann, Manfred P.

• ISBN13: 9783110173680
• ISBN10: 3110173689
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millennium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.

Table of Contents

Foreword	1	(18)
Millennial prespectives
From etymology to historical pragmatics	19	(32)
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical lingustics	51	(28)
Herbert Schendl
Dialectology and the history of the English language	79	(30)
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
Origin unknown	109	(16)
Anatoly Liberman
Issues for a new history of English prosody	125	(28)
Thomas Cable
Chaucer: Folk poet or litterateur?	153	(24)
Gilbert Youmans
Xingzhong Li
A rejoinder to Youmans and li	177	(6)
Thomas Cable
Phonology and metrics
On the development of English r	183	(24)
Blaine Erickson
Vowel variation In English rhyme	207	(24)
Kristin hanson
Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change	231	(14)
Betty s. phillips
Dating criteria for Old English poems	245	(22)
Geoffrey Russom
How much shifting actually occurred in the historical English vowel shift?	267	(16)
Robert Stockwell
Restoration of /a/ revisited	283	(18)
David White
Morphosyntax/Semantics
Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English	301	(24)
Maurizio Gotti
Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English	325	(30)
Edward L. Keenan
Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbs	355	(18)
Ans Van Kemenade
The ``have'' perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect?	373	(26)
Jeong-Hoon Lee
Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions	399	(18)
Colette Moore
The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics	417	(32)
Benji Wald
Lawrence besserman
Envoy
A thousand years of the history of English	449	(24)
Richard W. Bailey
Name index	473	(10)
Subject index	483