In:English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning
Edited by Bettelou Los, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 358] 2022
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Published online: 2 February 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.358.toc
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Table of contents
AcknowledgementsVII
IntroductionEnglish Historical Linguistics at 20 ICEHLs1
Bettelou Los
Patrick Honeybone
Part I.Phonology and morphology
Chapter 1.Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law: Towards a unified phonetic account15
Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden
Chapter 2.The foot in the history of English: Challenges to metrical coherence41
B. Elan Dresher
Aditi Lahiri
Chapter 3.Ambiguity resolution and the evolution of homophones in English61
Mieko Ogura
William S-Y. Wang
Chapter 4.The threshold of productivity and the ‘irregularization’ of verbs in Early Modern English91
Don Ringe
Charles Yang
Part II.Syntax
Chapter 5.The reanalysis of VO in the history of English: Evidence for a language-internal account115
Chiara De Bastiani
Chapter 6.The role of (the avoidance of) centre embedding in the change from OV to VO in English137
Rodrigo Pérez Lorido
Chapter 7.Syntactic changes in verbal clauses and noun phrases from 1500 onwards163
Gerold Schneider
Chapter 8.Prepositions in Early Modern English argument structure and beyond201
Eva Zehentner
Marianne Hundt
Chapter 9.Should with non-past reference: A corpus-based diachronic study225
Lilo Moessner
Part III.Semantics and pragmatics
Chapter 10.Shifting responsibility in passing information: Stance-taking in Sir Thomas Bodley’s diplomatic correspondence245
Gabriella Mazzon
Chapter 11.Theatrical practices and grammatical standardization in eighteenth-century Britain: you was and you were263
James Hyett
Carol Percy
Chapter 12.Towards a companionate marriage in Late Modern England? Two critical episodes in Mary Hamilton’s courtship letters to John Dickenson287
Anne-Christine Gardner
Chapter 13.On the development of OE swā to ModE so and related changes in an atypical group of demonstratives309
Ekkehard König
Letizia Vezzosi
Index345
