English Historical Syntax and Morphology

Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000

Volume 1

Editors

Teresa Fanego

| University of Santiago de Compostela

Javier Pérez-Guerra

| University de Vigo

María José López-Couso

| University de Vigo

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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, Diks model of functional grammar, construction grammar and Government & Binding Theory.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223] 2002. ix, 297 pp.

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Table of Contents

Addresses	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction Teresa Fanego	1–7
Two types of passivization of ‘V+NP+P’ constructions in relation to idiomatization Minoji Akimoto	9–22
On the development of a friend of mine Cynthia L. Allen	23–41
Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb? Douglas Biber and Victoria Clark	43–66
Grammaticalization versus lexicalization reconsidered: On the late use of temporal adverbs Laurel J. Brinton	67–97
The derivation of ornative, locative, ablative, privative and reversative verbs in English: A historical sketch Dieter Kastovsky	99–109
From gold-gifa to chimney sweep?: Morphological (un)markedness of Modern English agent nouns in a diachronic perspective Lucia Kornexl	111–129
A path to volitional modality Manfred G. Krug	131–155
Is it, stylewise or otherwise, wise to use -wise?: Domain adverbials and the history of English -wise Ursula Lenker	157–180
The loss of the indefinite pronoun man: Syntactic change and information structure Bettelou Los	181–202
The progressive in Older Scots Anneli Meurman-Solin	203–229
Detransitivization in the history of English from a semantic perspective Ruth Möhlig and Monika E. Klages	231–254
Morphology recycled: The Principle of Rhythmic Alternation at work in Early and Late Modern English grammatical variation Julia Schlüter	255–281
Name index	283–288
Subject index	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)

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002025421