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Studies in the History of the English Language VI : Evidence and Method in Histories of English / ed. by Michael Adams, Laurel J. Brinton, R.D. Fulk.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 85Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (337 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110345919
  • 9783110395020
  • 9783110345957
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420.9 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1075 .S885 2015
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Evidence and method in the historical study of English -- Part I. Corpora, Evidence, Method -- The development of free adjuncts in English and Dutch -- Semantic dependencies and the history of ellipsis alternation -- The phrasal verb in American English: Using corpora to track down historical trends in particle distribution, register variation, and noun collocations -- On the grammaticalization of the thing is and related issues in the history of American English -- Alfredian īo ~ ēo, reluctant function words, and Schriftbilder -- Part II. Reconfiguring History: Overlooked Evidence of English -- Metrical resolution, spelling, and the reconstruction of Old English syllabification -- The shortest history of vowel lengthening in English -- Vowel system restructuring in the West Midlands of England -- Style and politics in The Battle of Brunanburh and The Battle of Maldon -- Trinitarian terminology in Old English liturgical creeds -- Part III. Emerging Paradigms: New Methods, New Evidence -- Ælc þara þe þas min word gehierþ and þa wyrcþ ... : Psycholinguistic perspectives on early Englishes -- Complex systems and the history of the English language -- An ideological history of the English term onomatopoeia -- Name index -- Subject index
Summary: The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume – which ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora – challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Evidence and method in the historical study of English -- Part I. Corpora, Evidence, Method -- The development of free adjuncts in English and Dutch -- Semantic dependencies and the history of ellipsis alternation -- The phrasal verb in American English: Using corpora to track down historical trends in particle distribution, register variation, and noun collocations -- On the grammaticalization of the thing is and related issues in the history of American English -- Alfredian īo ~ ēo, reluctant function words, and Schriftbilder -- Part II. Reconfiguring History: Overlooked Evidence of English -- Metrical resolution, spelling, and the reconstruction of Old English syllabification -- The shortest history of vowel lengthening in English -- Vowel system restructuring in the West Midlands of England -- Style and politics in The Battle of Brunanburh and The Battle of Maldon -- Trinitarian terminology in Old English liturgical creeds -- Part III. Emerging Paradigms: New Methods, New Evidence -- Ælc þara þe þas min word gehierþ and þa wyrcþ ... : Psycholinguistic perspectives on early Englishes -- Complex systems and the history of the English language -- An ideological history of the English term onomatopoeia -- Name index -- Subject index

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The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume – which ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora – challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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