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New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics
Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002
Volume I: Syntax and Morphology
This is the first of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The second is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (2): Lexis and Transmission. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field. In this volume, the primary concern is with the historical grammar of English. Some papers take a broad overview of the subject, positioning it within current advances in linguistic theory, while others deal with specific points of syntax and morphology in a historical context. There is a recurrent emphasis on data collection and analysis, with a chronological range from Old to Present Day English, and a geographical spread from Scotland to Newfoundland. Contributions from scholars around the world remind us that not only English itself but the history of English is now an international possession.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251] 2004. x, 262 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. vii–7
- Introduction | pp. ix–x
- Verbal -s reconsidered: The Subject Type Constraint as a diagnostic of historical transatlantic relationshipSandra Clarke | pp. 1–13
- Do grammars change when they leak?David Denison | pp. 15–29
- Grammar change versus language change: Is there a difference?Olga Fischer | pp. 31–63
- Indefinite Pronominal Anaphora in English correspondence between 1500 and 1800Mikko Laitinen | pp. 65–81
- From resultative predicate to event-modifier: The case of forth and onBettelou Los | pp. 83–102
- Family valuesApril McMahon and Robert McMahon | pp. 103–123
- From inventory to typology in English historical dialectologyAnneli Meurman-Solin | pp. 125–151
- Consumers of correctness: Men, women, and language in eighteenth-century classified advertisementsCarol Percy | pp. 153–176
- Accounting for vernacular features in a Scottish dialect: Relic, innovation, analogy and driftJennifer Smith | pp. 177–193
- On MV/VM order in BeowulfHironori Suzuki | pp. 195–213
- DARE and NEED in British and American present-day English: 1960s–1990sMartine Taeymans | pp. 215–227
- What drove do?Anthony Warner | pp. 229–242
- The HAVE -‘perfect’ in Old EnglishIlse Wischer | pp. 243–255
- Name index
- Subject index | pp. 257–262
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