Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Cambridge in 1987. It draws together important state-of-the-art' studies in the syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics of Old, Middle and Modern English by prominent figures in the field into a single volume. Core theoretical areas are well represented and there are also major papers in dialectology, stylistics, metrics, socio-historical linguistics and the history of English linguistics.The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor James P. Thorne, whose last conference paper is included in the collection.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 65] 1990. xxviii, 583 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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In memoriam James Peter Thorne, 1933–1988John Lyons | p. xi
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Preface | p. xxi
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List of participants | p. xxv
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Restandardisation in middle ScotsAlex Agutter | p. 1
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British and American English: odi et amoJohn Algeo | p. 13
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The stylistic function of ME gan reconsideredLaurel J. Brinton | p. 31
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Historical linguistics — linguistic archaeologyCecily Clark | p. 55
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The assessment of lexical mortality and replacement between old and modern EnglishRobert Coleman | p. 69
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Preposition stranding and relative complementiser deletion: implicational tendencies in English and the other Germanic languagesXavier Dekeyser | p. 87
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The old English impersonals revivedDavid Denison | p. 111
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On the unity of the Mercian Second FrontingB. Elan Dresher | p. 141
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Hugh Blair’s theory of the origin and the basic functions of languageThomas Frank | p. 165
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Methodological preliminaries to the study of linguistic change in dialectal English: evaluating the grammars of Barnes and Elworthy as sources of linguistic evidenceOssi Ihalainen | p. 189
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The typological status of old English word-formationDieter Kastovsky | p. 205
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The double object construction in Old EnglishWillem F. Koopman | p. 225
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Where do Extraterritorial Englishes come from? Dialect input and recodification in transported EnglishesRoger Lass | p. 245
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Obsolescence and universal grammarDavid W. Lightfoot | p. 281
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On the role of some adverbs in Old English verse grammarPeter G. Lucas | p. 293
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Adjectival inflexion relics and speech rhythm in late middle English and early modern EnglishDonka Minkova | p. 313
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Modelling functional differentiation and function loss: the case of butTerttu Nevalainen | p. 337
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Dating old English inscriptions: the limits of inferenceRay Page | p. 357
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Paradigm arrangement and inflectional homonymy: old English caseFrans Plank | p. 379
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A contact-universals origins for periphrastic do with special consideration of old English-Celtic contactPatricia Poussa | p. 407
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A new kind metrical evidence in old English poetryGeoffrey Russom | p. 435
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The development of ME from open syllable lenghtening in the west midlandsMałgorzata Tecław | p. 485
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Some modern standard English filtersJames P. Thorne | p. 471
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Exemplification in Eighteenth century grammarsIngrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade | p. 481
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From less to more situated in language: the unidirectionality of semantic changeElizabeth Closs Traugott | p. 497
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The easy-to-please construction in Old and middle EnglishWim van der Wurff | p. 519
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Reworking the history of English auxiliariesAnthony Warner | p. 537
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On grounding in English narratives: a diachronic perspectiveBrita Wårvik | p. 559
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Author index | p. 577
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Cited by nine other publications
Los, Bettelou & Patrick Honeybone
2022. Introduction. In English Historical Linguistics [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358], ► pp. 2 ff. 
Fanego, Teresa
2020. Review of Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Emma Moore, Linda Van Bergen and Willem B. Hollmann eds. 2019. Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-108-41956-7. htps:// doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576. Research in Corpus Linguistics 8:2 ► pp. 159 ff.
Hickey, Raymond
2003. How do dialects get the features they have? On the process of new dialect formation. In Motives for Language Change, ► pp. 213 ff.
Adamson, Sylvia
2000. LITERARY LANGUAGE. In The Cambridge History of the English Language, ► pp. 539 ff.
Roger Lass
2000. The Cambridge History of the English Language,
Lass, Roger
2000. Phonology and Morphology. In The Cambridge History of the English Language, ► pp. 56 ff.
Rissanen, Matti
2000. SYNTAX. In The Cambridge History of the English Language, ► pp. 187 ff.
Denison, David
1999. SYNTAX. In The Cambridge History of the English Language, ► pp. 92 ff.
Koerner, Konrad
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General