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Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Edited by Sylvia M. Adamson, Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 65] 1990
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Table of contents

In memoriam James Peter Thorne, 1933–1988xi
Prefacexxi
List of participantsxxv
Restandardisation in middle Scots1
British and American English: odi et amo13
The stylistic function of ME gan reconsidered31
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Historical linguistics — linguistic archaeology55
The assessment of lexical mortality and replacement between old and modern English69
Preposition stranding and relative complementiser deletion: implicational tendencies in English and the other Germanic languages87
The old English impersonals revived111
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On the unity of the Mercian Second Fronting141
Hugh Blair’s theory of the origin and the basic functions of language165
Methodological preliminaries to the study of linguistic change in dialectal English: evaluating the grammars of Barnes and Elworthy as sources of linguistic evidence189
The typological status of old English word-formation205
The double object construction in Old English225
Where do Extraterritorial Englishes come from? Dialect input and recodification in transported Englishes245
Obsolescence and universal grammar281
On the role of some adverbs in Old English verse grammar293
Adjectival inflexion relics and speech rhythm in late middle English and early modern English313
Modelling functional differentiation and function loss: the case of but337
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Dating old English inscriptions: the limits of inference357
Paradigm arrangement and inflectional homonymy: old English case379
A contact-universals origins for periphrastic do with special consideration of old English-Celtic contact407
A new kind metrical evidence in old English poetry435
The development of ME from open syllable lenghtening in the west midlands485
Some modern standard English filters471
Exemplification in Eighteenth century grammars481
From less to more situated in language: the unidirectionality of semantic change497
The easy-to-please construction in Old and middle English519
Reworking the history of English auxiliaries537
On grounding in English narratives: a diachronic perspective559
Author index577


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