English Historical Linguistics 1994

Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8 ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19–23 September 1994)

Editor

Derek Britton

| University of Edinburgh

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This volume offers a selection of 19 papers from those read at the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics in Edinburgh. Many of the writers are established authorities in the field, but there are also significant contributions from a younger generation of scholars. The topics discussed span the whole history of English from the Common Germanic period to the present century and the book also includes, as appropriate to the Conference venue, a number of papers on aspects of the historical development of Scots and Scottish English.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 135] 1996. viii, 403 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.135

Table of Contents

Editor’s foreword	v
1. Phonology
Tertiary stress in Old English: Some Reflections on explanatory inadequacy Richard M. Hogg	3
Verse structure as evidence for prosodic reconstructions in Old English Donka Minkova	13
On the syllable weight -VC# in Old English: A metrical perspective Seiichi Suzuki	39
Old English short diphthongs and the theory of Glide emergence Robert P. Stockwell	57
On the use of the past to explain the present April McMahon	73
2. Morphology
Verbal derivation in English: A historical survey or much ado about nothing Dieter Kastovsky	93
Snowball effect in lexical diffusion: The development of -s in the third person singular present indicative in English Mieko Ogura and William S-Y. Wang	119
The 3rd plural present indicative in early modern English: Variation and linguistic contact Herbert Schendl	143
Morphological standardization: The strong verbs in Scots Manfred Görlach	161
3. Lexis
Scandinavian loans and processes of word-formation in ME: Some preliminary considerations Isabel Moskowich and Elena Seoane	185
Towards syntactic isomorphism and semantic dissimilation: The semantics and syntax of prospective verbs in early modern English Edgar W. Schneider	199
4. Syntax
Evidence for clitic adverbs in old English: An evaluation Willem F. Koopman	223
Verbal complementation in early ME: How do the infinitives fit in? Olga Fischer	247
A look at the That/Zero variation in Restoration English María José López-Couso	271
The case of the unmarked pronoun David Denison	287
5. Sociohistorical linguistics
Social stratification in Tudor English? Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg	303
Social network theory and Eighteenth-century English: The case of boswell Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade	327
Eighteenth-century normative grammar in practice: The case of Captain Cook Carol Percy	339
The Jocks and the Geordies: Modified standards in Eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries Joan C. Beal	363
6. Indexes
Index of persons	385
Index of concepts and terms	391

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Germanic linguistics

English linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 96000667