Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics : Cambridge, 6-9 April 1987

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Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics : Cambridge, 6-9 April 1987

edited by Sylvia Adamson ... [et al.]

(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 65)

J. Benjamins, 1990

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Papers from the 5th ICEHL

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Half t.p. title: Papers from the 5th ICEHL

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Cambridge in 1987. It draws together important state-of-the-art' studies in the syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics of Old, Middle and Modern English by prominent figures in the field into a single volume. Core theoretical areas are well represented and there are also major papers in dialectology, stylistics, metrics, socio-historical linguistics and the history of English linguistics.The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor James P. Thorne, whose last conference paper is included in the collection.

目次

  • 1. In memoriam James Peter Thorne, 1933-1988 (by Lyons, John)
  • 2. Preface
  • 3. List of participants
  • 4. Restandardisation in middle Scots (by Agutter, Alex)
  • 5. British and American English: odi et amo (by Algeo, John)
  • 6. The stylistic function of ME gan reconsidered (by Brinton, Laurel J.)
  • 7. Historical linguistics - linguistic archaeology (by Clark, Cecily)
  • 8. The assessment of lexical mortality and replacement between old and modern English (by Coleman, Robert)
  • 9. Preposition stranding and relative complementiser deletion: implicational tendencies in English and the other Germanic languages (by Dekeyser, Xavier)
  • 10. The old English impersonals revived (by Denison, David)
  • 11. On the unity of the Mercian Second Fronting (by Dresher, B. Elan)
  • 12. Hugh Blair's theory of the origin and the basic functions of language (by Frank, Thomas)
  • 13. Methodological preliminaries to the study of linguistic change in dialectal English: evaluating the grammars of Barnes and Elworthy as sources of linguistic evidence (by Ihalainen, Ossi)
  • 14. The typological status of old English word-formation (by Kastovsky, Dieter)
  • 15. The double object construction in Old English (by Koopman, Willem F.)
  • 16. Where do Extraterritorial Englishes come from? Dialect input and recodification in transported Englishes (by Lass, Roger)
  • 17. Obsolescence and universal grammar (by Lightfoot, David W.)
  • 18. On the role of some adverbs in Old English verse grammar (by Lucas, Peter G.)
  • 19. Adjectival inflexion relics and speech rhythm in late middle English and early modern English (by Minkova, Donka)
  • 20. Modelling functional differentiation and function loss: the case of but (by Nevalainen, Terttu)
  • 21. Dating old English inscriptions: the limits of inference (by Page, Ray)
  • 22. Paradigm arrangement and inflectional homonymy: old English case (by Plank, Frans)
  • 23. A contact-universals origins for periphrastic do with special consideration of old English-Celtic contact (by Poussa, Patricia)
  • 24. A new kind metrical evidence in old English poetry (by Russom, Geoffrey)
  • 25. The development of ME from open syllable lenghtening in the west midlands (by Teclaw, Malgorzata)
  • 26. Some modern standard English filters (by Thorne, James P.)
  • 27. Exemplification in Eighteenth century grammars (by Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid)
  • 28. From less to more situated in language: the unidirectionality of semantic change (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs)
  • 29. The easy-to-please construction in Old and middle English (by Wurff, Wim van der)
  • 30. Reworking the history of English auxiliaries (by Warner, Anthony)
  • 31. On grounding in English narratives: a diachronic perspective (by Warvik, Brita)
  • 32. Author index

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