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Title:
Advances in English Historical Linguistics
Author:
Bergh, Gunnar, contributor.
ISBN:
9783110804072
Edition:
Reprint 2010
Physical Description:
1 online resource (489 p.)
Series:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 112
Contents:
I-X -- Double prepositions in English -- Motivations for producing and analyzing compounds in Wulfstan's sermons -- The degrammaticalization of addressee-satisfaction conditionals in Early Modern English -- From unasecendlic to unspeakable: The role of domain structure in morphological change -- Anthony Huish: A 17th-century English grammarian -- John Bullokar's "Termes of Art" -- The Dublin Vowel Shift and the historical perspective -- On the ideological boundaries of Old English dialects -- The spread of-ly to present participles -- Inversion after single and multiple topics in Old English -- Epenthesis and Mouillierung in the explanation of i-umlaut: The rise and fall of a theory -- On minor declarative complementizers in the history of English: The case of but -- Bare and to-infinitives in Old English: Callaway revisited -- The interplay of external and internal factors in morphological restructuring: The case of you -- The origins of long-short allomorphy in English -- Modals in past counterfactual conditional protases -- Downsizing the preterite-presents in Middle English -- Social mobility and the decline of multiple negation in Early Modern English -- The grammaticalization in Medieval English -- Evolution theory and lexical diffusion -- On nominative case assignment in Old English -- Social factors and pronominal change in the seventeenth century: The Civil-War effect? -- Towards an integrated view of the development of English: Notes on causal linking -- Problems of functional structure in some relative clauses -- Eighteenth-century linguistics and authorship: The cases of Dyche, Priestley, and Buchanan -- Adverbialization and subject-modification in Old English -- Standardization of English spelling: The eighteenth-century printers' contribution -- The functional relationship between rules (Old English voicing of fricatives and lengthening of vowels before homorganic clusters) -- Index of subjects -- 490
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