TY - BOOK AU - Aertsen,Henk AU - Anderson,John AU - Bailey,Guy AU - Biber,Douglas AU - Blake,N.F. AU - Boas,Hans Ulrich AU - Chapman,Curtis AU - Clark,Cecily AU - Colman,Fran AU - Curry,Mary Jane AU - Dalton-Puffer,Christiane AU - Danchev,Andrei AU - Denison,David AU - Dor,Juliette AU - Filppula,Markku AU - Finegan,Edward AU - Finell,Anne AU - Görlach,Manfred AU - Ihalainen,Ossi AU - Jones,Bernard AU - Kemenade,Ans van AU - King,Anne AU - Klemola,Juhani AU - Kniezsa,Veronika AU - Koopman,Willem F. AU - Labov,William AU - Laing,Margaret AU - Lass,Roger AU - Lutz,Angelika AU - Mazzon,Gabriella AU - McMahon,April M.S. AU - Melchers,Gunnel AU - Meurman-Solin,Anneli AU - Milroy,James AU - Minkova,Donka AU - Mitchell,Bruce AU - Moessner,Lilo AU - Montgomery,Michael AU - Nagucka,Ruta AU - Nevalainen,Terttu AU - Nielsen,Hans F. AU - Nunnally,Thomas E. AU - Ogura,Michiko AU - Peitsara,Kirsti AU - Poussa,Patricia AU - Rissanen,Matti AU - Ritt,Nikolaus AU - Romaine,Suzanne AU - Ross,Garry AU - Schendl,Herbert AU - Schneider,Edgar W. AU - Smith,Jeremy J. AU - Stockwell,Robert AU - Taavitsainen,Irma AU - Ukaji,Masatomo AU - Van den Eynden,Nadine AU - Wright,Laura TI - History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics T2 - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , SN - 9783110132168 AV - PE1101 U1 - 425 20 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - English language KW - Grammar, Historical KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Englisch KW - Helsinki ‹1990› KW - Historische Sprachwissenschaft KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - I-IV --; Preface --; Contents --; I. Theory and methodology --; Translation and the history of English --; The evidence for analytic and synthetic developments in English --; Evidence for regular sound change in English dialect geography --; A social model for the interpretation of language change --; How to study Old English syntax? --; II. Phonology and orthography --; Exceptionality and non-specification in the history of English phonology --; The myth of "the Anglo-Norman scribe" --; Old English ABCs --; What, if anything, was the Great Vowel Shift? --; Lexical and morphological consequences of phonotactic change in the history of English --; Lexical phonology and diachrony --; Homorganic clusters as moric busters in the history of English: the case of -ld, -nd, -mb --; Middle English vowel quantity reconsidered --; III. Morphology and syntax --; On explaining the historical development of English genitives --; A touch of (sub-)class? Old English "Preterite-Present" verbs --; The information present: present tense for communication in the past --; Structural factors in the history of English modals --; Subordinating uses of and in the history of English --; The distribution of verb forms in Old English subordinate clauses --; Relative constructions and functional amalgamation in Early Modern English --; The use of to and for in Old English --; Man's son/son of man: translation, textual conditioning, and the history of the English genitive --; Why is the element order to cwæð him 'said to him' impossible? --; On the development of the by-agent in English --; Pragmatics of this and that --; A valency description of Old English possessive verbs --; Who(m)? Constraints on the loss of case marking of wh-pronouns in the English of Shakespeare and other poets of the Early Modern English period --; "I not say": bridge phenomenon in syntactic change --; IV. Lexis and semantics --; The status of word formation in Middle English: approaching the question --; Post-dating Romance loan-words in Middle English: Are the French words of the Katherine Group English? --; Rich Lake: a case history --; V. Varieties and dialects --; The evolution of a vernacular --; Relativization in the Dorset dialect --; William Barnes and the south west dialect of English --; A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: the value of texts surviving in more than one version --; A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: tradition and typology --; A chapter in the worldwide spread of English: Malta --; "Du's no heard da last o'dis" — on the use of be as a perfective auxiliary in Shetland dialect --; On the morphology of verbs in Middle Scots: present and present perfect indicative --; The pace of change in Appalachian English --; Variability in Old English and the Continental Germanic languages --; Variability in Tok Pisin phonology: "Did you say 'pig' or 'fig'?" --; VI. Text types and individual texts --; Chaucer's Boece: a syntactic and lexical analysis --; The linguistic evolution of five written and speech-based English genres from the 17th to the 20th centuries --; The do variant field in questions and negatives: Jane Austen's Complete Letters and Mansfield Park --; The repertoire of topic changers in personal, intimate letters: a diachronic study of Osborne and Woolf --; Text-types and language history: the cookery recipe --; Macaronic writing in a London archive, 1380—1480 --; Abbreviations of titles of textual sources --; Name index --; Subject index --; 800; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110877007 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110877007 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110877007/original ER -