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Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicographyEdited by Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 363] 2024
► pp. v–vi
Edited by Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 363] 2024
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
Part I.Syntax and word order
9 Parataxis and hypotaxis in the history of English 10 Two types of left-dislocation in Old English 34 Subject-verb agreement and the rise of do-support in the period of anglicisation of Scots 53Part II.Diachronic linguistic change
81 A modern light on diachronic processes affecting coda /l/ in English 82 Modality and the English subjunctive in noun clauses A diachronic study 103 Some philological implications of punctuation in editions of Middle English texts 120Part III.Lexicography and lexis
143 The unfinished double glosses in Durham Cathedral Library, MS A.iv.19 144 Early modern manuscripts containing Old English dictionaries in England and northern Germany From John Joscelyn to Dietrich von Stade 166 Loss of wiþer-words in English 191 Investigating the dynamics of the lexicon A socio-historical perspective of the borrowing of Yiddish words into English 213 Index 233
