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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 millenium and to stimulate research in English historical linguistics. The authors are predominantly US scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of mixed language texts, phonology and metrics.

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Author:   Donka Minkova ,  Robert Stockwell
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Edition:   Reprint 2011
Volume:   39
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.854kg
ISBN:  

9783110173680

ISBN 10:   3110173689
Pages:   502
Publication Date:   30 July 2002
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"I. MILLENNIAL PERSPECTIVES From etymological to historical pragmatics Elizabeth Closs Traugott Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguistics Herbert Schendl Dialectology and the history of the English language William Kretzchmar Origin unknown Anatoly Liberman Issues for a new history of English prosody Thomas Cable Chaucer: Folk poet or littérateur? Gilbert Youmans / Xingzhong Li A rejoinder to Youmans and Li Thomas Cable II. PHONOLOGY AND METRICS On the development of English r Blaine Erickson Vowel variation in English rhyme Kristin Hanson Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change Betty Phillips Dating criteria for Old English poems Geoffrey Russom How much shifting actually occured in the historical English vowel shift? Robert Stockwell Restoration of /a/ revisited David White III. MORPHOSYNTAX / SEMANTICS Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English Maurizio Gotti Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English Edward Keenan Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbs Ans van Kemenade The ""have"" perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect? Jeong-Hoon Lee Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions Colette Moore The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics Benji Wald and Lawrence Besserman IV. ENVOY A thousand years of the history of English Richard Bailey"

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Donka Minkova is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA. Robert Stockwell is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA.

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