LINGUIST List 17.2374

Tue Aug 22 2006

TOC: English Language and Linguistics 10/1 (2006)

Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Joyce Reid, English Language and Linguistics Vol 10, No 1 (2006)

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Message 1: English Language and Linguistics Vol 10, No 1 (2006)
Date: 11-Aug-2006
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: English Language and Linguistics Vol 10, No 1 (2006)


Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org

Journal Title: English Language and Linguistics Volume Number: 10 Issue Number: 1 Issue Date: 2006


Main Text:

The social and linguistic conditioning of back vowel fronting across ethnicgroups in Memphis, TennesseeKathy Bartlett

The segmental phonology of nineteenth-century Tristan da Cunha English:convergence and local innovationPeter Trudgill, Daniel Schreier

The variability of compound stress in English: structural, semantic, andanalogical factorsIngo Plag

Linguistic change, sociohistorical context, and theory-building in variationistlinguistics: new-dialect formation in New ZealandMiriam Meyerhoff

Publications ReceivedMiriam Meyerhoff

Stour and Blyth as English river-namesRichard Coates

Watching English grammar change: a case study on complement selection in Britishand American EnglishJuhani Rudanko

The history of the genitive case from the Old English period onwardsTakeshi Koike

Descriptive genitives in English: a case study on constructional gradienceAnette Rosenbach

Reviews

Gabriella Mazzon, A history of English negation. London: Pearson Longman, 2004.Pp. xv + 176. ISBN 0 582 38185 1Gunnel Tottie

Elly van Gelderen, Grammaticalization as economy. Linguistik Aktuell/LinguisticsToday 71. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004. Pp. 320. ISBN 90 2722795 0 (Eur.), 1 58811 552 6 (US)Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Joan C. Beal, English in modern times: 1700–1945. London: Arnold, 2004. xvi +264 pp. ISBN 0 340 76117 2Erik Smitterberg

Gunnel Melchers and Philip Shaw, World Englishes. The English Language Series.London: Arnold, 2003. Pp. 229. ISBN 0 340 71887 0 (hb), 0 340 71888 0 (pb), 0340 71889 7 (CD)Gerald Nelson


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