LINGUIST List 14.1765

Mon Jun 23 2003

Books: Historical Ling, English: Minkova, Stockwell

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1. julia.ulrich, Studies in the History of the English Language

Title: Studies in the History of the English Language
Subtitle: A Millenial Perspective

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter 
 http://www.degruyter.com		 
			
Editor: Donka Minkova, UCLA 
Editor: Robert Stockwell, UCLA 

Paperback: ISBN: 3110175916, Pages: vi, 496, Price: EURO
	 36.95/approx. US$ 37.00
Comment: New in Paperback!
			
Abstract:

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 mixed language texts, phonology and metrics.

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 litt�rateur?
	Gilbert Youmans / Xingzhong Li
A rejoinder to Youmans and Li
Thomas Cable

II. PHONOLOGY AND METRICS

The history 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 / Lawrence Besserman

IV. ENVOY
A thousand years of the history of English
	Richard Bailey

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Lingfield(s): Historical Linguistics
			 
Subject Language(s): English (Language code: ENG)

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)


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