: Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell
: Studies in the History of the English Language A Millennial Perspective
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110197143
: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]ISSN
: 1
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
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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.

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Donka Minkova is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA.Robert Stockwell is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA.
Frontmatter1
Table of Contents5
Foreword7
From etymology to historical pragmatics25
Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguistics57
Dialectology and the history of the English language85
Origin unknown115
Issues for a new history of English prosody131
Chaucer: Folk poet or littérateur?159
A rejoinder to Youmans and Li183
On the development of English r189
Vowel variation in English rhyme213
Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change237
Dating criteria for Old English poems251
How much shifting actually occurred in the historical English vowel shift?273
Restoration of /a/ revisited289
Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English307
Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English331
Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbs361
The “have” perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect?379
Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions405
The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics423
A thousand years of the history of English455
Backmatter479