English Historical Syntax and Morphology
Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000
Volume 1
Editors
This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the fields of English historical syntax and morphology. Some of the issues discussed are the emergence of viewpoint adverbials in English and German, changes in noun phrase structure from 1650 to the present, the development of the progressive in Scots, the passivization of composite predicates, the loss of V2 and its effects on the information structure of English, the acquisition of modal syntax and semantics by the English verb WANT, or the use of temporal adverbs as attributive adjectives in the Early Modern period. Many of the articles tackle questions of change through the use of methodological tools like computerized corpora. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, grammaticalization theory, Dik’s model of functional grammar, construction grammar and Government & Binding Theory.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223] 2002. ix, 297 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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Addresses | p. vii
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Acknowledgements | p. ix
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IntroductionTeresa Fanego | pp. 1–7
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Two types of passivization of ‘V+NP+P’ constructions in relation to idiomatizationMinoji Akimoto | pp. 9–22
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On the development of a friend of mineCynthia L. Allen | pp. 23–41
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Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb?Douglas Biber and Victoria Clark | pp. 43–66
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Grammaticalization versus lexicalization reconsidered: On the late use of temporal adverbsLaurel J. Brinton | pp. 67–97
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The derivation of ornative, locative, ablative, privative and reversative verbs in English: A historical sketchDieter Kastovsky | pp. 99–109
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From gold-gifa to chimney sweep? Morphological (un)markedness of Modern English agent nouns in a diachronic perspectiveLucia Kornexl | pp. 111–129
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A path to volitional modalityManfred G. Krug | pp. 131–155
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Is it, stylewise or otherwise, wise to use -wise? Domain adverbials and the history of English -wiseUrsula Lenker | pp. 157–180
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The loss of the indefinite pronoun man: Syntactic change and information structureBettelou Los | pp. 181–202
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The progressive in Older ScotsAnneli Meurman-Solin | pp. 203–229
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Detransitivization in the history of English from a semantic perspectiveRuth Möhlig and Monika E. Klages | pp. 231–254
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Morphology recycled: The Principle of Rhythmic Alternation at work in Early and Late Modern English grammatical variationJulia Schlüter | pp. 255–281
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Name index | pp. 283–288
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Subject index | pp. 289–297
“Like its companion volume, this book is scrupulously compiled and edited; it belongs on the shelf of every scholar of English historical linguistics right next to its sister volume.”
Alexander Bergs, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, in Language, Vol. 80:1 (2004)
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002025421