A millennial perspective
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A millennial perspective
(Topics in English linguistics / editor, Herman Wekker, 39 . Studies in the history of the English language)
Mouton de Gruyter, 2002
Available at 46 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Papers selected from those presented at a conference at UCLA in the spring of the year 2000
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 millenium 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
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 litterateur?
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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