UID:
almahu_9949179446602882
Format:
1 online resource (396 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-31287-5
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9786613312877
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90-272-7673-0
Series Statement:
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, v. 113
Content:
This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia.The book opens with a general section, which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe theory, Roger Sell suggests a pragmatic analysis of historical data, and Norman Blake and Jacek Fisiak re-open the debate on periodization in the history of English. The rest of the papers is grouped in four sections: Phonology and Writing, Morphology and Syntax, Lexicology and Semantics, and Varieties
Note:
ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1992; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; FOREWORD; Table of contents; 1. GENERAL ISSUES; LINGUISTICS, PHILOLOGY, CHICKENS ANDEGGS; CAN CATASTROPHE THEORY PROVIDE ADEQUATE EXPLANATIONS FOR LINGUISTIC CHANGE? An application to syntactic change in English; POSTDISCIPLINARY PHILOLOGY: CULTURALLY RELATIVISTIC PRAGMATICS; PREMISSES AND PERIODS IN A HISTORY OFENGLISH; LINGUISTIC REALITY OF MIDDLE ENGLISH; 2. PHONOLOGY AND WRITING; OLD ENGLISH STRESS: AMORPHOUS?; THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT REVISITED
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TOWARDS A STANDARD WRITTEN ENGLISH?Continuity and change in the orthographic usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393-1464)ON THE WRITING OF THE HISTORY OF STANDARD ENGLISH; 3. MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX; GRAMMATICAL CHOICES IN OLD AND EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH: A choice between a simple verb, the prefix/particle-verbor verb-particle combination, and the ""auxiliary + infinitive"" construction in Old and early Middle English; SUBJECT EXTRACTION IN ENGLISH: THE USE OF THE THAT-COMPLEMENTIZER; THE MODALS AGAIN IN THE LIGHT OFHISTORICAL AND CROSS-LINGUISTICEVIDENCE
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OE AND ME MULTIPLE NEGATION: SOME SYNTACTIC AND STYLISTIC REMARKSØ-RELATIVESWITH ANTECEDENT pÆT AND FREE RELATIVES IN OE AND ME; BE vs. HAVE WITH INTRANSITIVES IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH; INFINITIVE MARKING IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH; 4. LEXICOLOGY AND SEMANTICS; DOG- MAN'S BEST FRIEND: A STUDY IN HISTORICAL LEXICOLOGY; EMOTIONS IN THE ENGLISH LEXICON: A HISTORICAL STUDY OF A LEXICAL FIELD; THE SCANDINAVIAN ELEMENTS IN THE VOCABULARY OF THE PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE; PRODUCTIVE OR NOT PRODUCTIVE? The Romance Element inMiddle English Derivation
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REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS""...ASE ROSER WHEN HIT REDES"": Semantic shifts and cultural overtones in the Middle English colour lexicon; 5. VARIETIES OF ENGLISH AND STUDIES ON INDIVIDUAL TEXTS; PROTOTYPE CATEGORIES AND VARIATION STUDIES; WHAT DOES THE JUNGLE OF MIDDLE ENGLISH MANUSCRIPTS TELL US? On ME Words for 'Every' and 'Each' with Special Reference to their Many Variants; LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The generalization of titles in Early Modern English; ON THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFICWRITINGS FROM 1375 TO 1675: Repertoire of emotive features
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MULTIPLE AUTHORSHIP OF THE OE OROSIUS""AFTER A COPYE UNTO ME DELYVERD"": Multiple negation in Malory's Morte Darthur; 6. INDEXES; INDEX NOMINUM; INDEX RERUM
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-3616-X
Language:
English
