Studies in the History of the English Language V: Variation and Change in English Grammar and Lexicon: Contemporary Approaches

Studies in the History of the English Language V: Variation and Change in English Grammar and Lexicon: Contemporary Approaches
(Topics in English Linguistics 68)
by Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, Robert A. Cloutier
Hardcover: 320 pages
Published: Sep 2010
ISBN-10: 3110220326
ISBN-13: 978-3110220322

Twelve articles about contemporary approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon, with commentaries and responses by the authors, show the main issues and discussion in the field as traditional methods meet contemporary linguistics.

List of Articles

Introduction
Dialogic Contexts as Motivations for Syntactic Change
Whatever Happened to English Sluicing
Notion of Direction and Old English Prepositional Phrases
Survival of the Strongest: Strong Verb Inflection from Old to Modern English
Subject Compounding and a Functional Change of the Derivational Suffix -ing in the History of English
Bad Ideas in the History of English Usage
The State of English Etymology (A Few Personal Observations)
From Germanic ‘fence’ to ‘urban settlement’: On the Semantic Development of English town
Celtic Influence on English: A Re-Evaluation
When ariven Came to England: Tracing Lexical Re-Structuring by Borrowing in Middle and Early Modern English. A Case Study
Reexamining Orthographic Practice in the Auchinleck Manuscript Through Study of Complete Scribal Corpora
How Medium Shapes Language Development: The Emergence of Quotative Re Online
Author Index
Subject Index