This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed before, i.e., northern Early Middle English texts clearly show Scandinavian syntactic patterns like stylistic fronting that can only be found today in the Modern Scandinavian languages. Thus, it sheds new light on the force of language contact in that it shows that a language can be heavily influenced through contact with another language in such a way that it affects deeper levels of language. It further gives an introduction to working with the Penn-Helsinki-Parsed Corpus of Middle English II (PPCMEII). It discusses the texts included in the corpus, it describes the format of the texts, and it explains how to search the corpus with the tool called Corpus Search. The book targets researchers in diachronic syntax, comparative syntax and in general linguists working in the field of generative syntax. It can further be used as an introduction to working with the PPCMEII.
2023. From Original Sources to Linguistic Analysis: Tools and Datasets for the Investigation of Multilingualism in Medieval English. In Medieval English in a Multilingual Context [New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics, ], ► pp. 49 ff.
Walkden, George, Juhani Klemola & Thomas Rainsford
2023. An Overview of Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in Early English. In Medieval English in a Multilingual Context [New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics, ], ► pp. 239 ff.
2022. A quantitative model of verb–object order in Middle English with special reference to the prose–poetry distinction. English Language and Linguistics 26:3 ► pp. 603 ff.
Dance, Richard
2018. Words derived from Old Norse inSir Gawain and the Green Knight: An etymological survey. Transactions of the Philological Society 116:S2 ► pp. 1 ff.
Green, Clarence
2017. Historical Development According to Genre and Dialect. In Patterns and Development in the English Clause System, ► pp. 111 ff.
2009. Subject focus in West African languages. In Information Structure, ► pp. 234 ff.
Féry, Caroline & Shinichiro Ishihara
2009. How focus and givenness shape prosody. In Information Structure, ► pp. 36 ff.
Hinterhölzl, Roland
2009. Information structure and unmarked word order in (Older) Germanic. In Information Structure, ► pp. 282 ff.
Hróarsdóttir, þorbjörg
2009. Information structure and OV order. In Information Structure, ► pp. 258 ff.
Hyman, Larry M. & Maria Polinsky
2009. Focus in Aghem. In Information Structure, ► pp. 206 ff.
Hörnig, Robin & Thomas Weskott
2009. 15 Given and new information in spatial statements. In Information Structure, ► pp. 354 ff.
Kaiser, Elsi
2009. Investigating effects of structural and information‐structural factors on pronoun resolution. In Information Structure, ► pp. 332 ff.
Kiss, Katalin É.
2009. Structural focus and exhaustivity. In Information Structure, ► pp. 64 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2009. How new languages emerge. By David Lightfoot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 199. ISBN 0521676290. $29.99.. Language 85:1 ► pp. 175 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2010. Denaturalized Phonetic Processes. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 221 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2010. Building on the Tradition. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 64 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2010. Natural Processes. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 171 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2010. How Language Change is Investigated. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 12 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2010. Introduction. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 1 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2010. Analogy and Systematic Repair. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 97 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2010. Inverted Operations. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 205 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2010. Tempo and Mora in Phonological Change. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 238 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2010. Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I,
Miller, D. Gary
2010. Vowel Shifts and the Middle English Vowels. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 270 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2010. Reconstructing Language History. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 39 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2010. Motivations of Language Change. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 123 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2012. The French input. In External Influences on English, ► pp. 148 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2012. The Scandinavian heritage of English. In External Influences on English, ► pp. 91 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2012. External linguistic input to English. In External Influences on English, ► pp. 228 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2012. Early loanwords from Latin and Greek. In External Influences on English, ► pp. 53 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2012. Introduction. In External Influences on English, ► pp. 1 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2012. Special phonetic symbols. In External Influences on English, ► pp. 237 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2012. External Influences on English,
Miller, D. Gary
2012. Continuity and revival of classical learning. In External Influences on English, ► pp. 192 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2012. English: The early period. In External Influences on English, ► pp. 41 ff.
Miller, D. Gary
2012. Celtic, Roman, and Germanic background. In External Influences on English, ► pp. 15 ff.
Reese, Brian & Nicholas Asher
2009. Biased questions, intonation, and discourse. In Information Structure, ► pp. 139 ff.
Rooth, Mats
2009. Second occurrence focus andRelativized Stress F. In Information Structure, ► pp. 15 ff.
Skopeteas, Stavros & Gisbert Fanselow
2009. Effects of givenness and constraints on free word order. In Information Structure, ► pp. 307 ff.
Tomioka, Satoshi
2009. Contrastive topics operate on speech acts. In Information Structure, ► pp. 115 ff.
Malte Zimmermann & Caroline Féry
2009. Information Structure,
Malte Zimmermann & Caroline Féry
2009. Introduction. In Information Structure, ► pp. 1 ff.
Stein, Achim
2008. Syntactic Annotation of Old French Text Corpora. Corpus 7
van Gelderen, Elly
2008. Bas Aarts and April McMahon (eds.), The handbook of English linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 2006. xviii + 806 pp. £99.99; $177.95. ISBN: 978-140-511382-3. - Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los (eds.), The handbook of the history of English. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. xvi + 655 pp. £105; $165.95. ISBN: 978-063-123344-2.. English Language and Linguistics 12:1 ► pp. 193 ff.
Zeller, Jochen
2006. On the relation between noun prefixes and grammaticalisation in Nguni relative clauses*. Studia Linguistica 60:2 ► pp. 220 ff.
Fuss, Eric & Carola Trips
2001. Variation and change in Old and Middle English — on the validity of the Double Base Hypothesis. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 4:3 ► pp. 171 ff.
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2009. Abbreviations and symbols. In Information Structure, ► pp. xi ff.
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2009. Notes on contributors. In Information Structure, ► pp. vii ff.
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2009. Copyright Page. In Information Structure, ► pp. iv ff.
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2010. Special Phonetic Symbols. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 288 ff.
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2010. Copyright Page. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. iv ff.
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2010. Abbreviations. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. xvii ff.
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2010. Preface. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. xii ff.
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2010. Primary Sources: Texts and Editions. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 293 ff.
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2010. Bibliographical Abbreviations. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. xxix ff.
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2010. Dating and Other Conventions. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. xv ff.
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2012. Copyright Page. In External Influences on English, ► pp. iv ff.
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2012. Primary sources: Texts and editions. In External Influences on English, ► pp. 242 ff.
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2012. Dating and other conventions. In External Influences on English, ► pp. xiii ff.
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2012. Abbreviations. In External Influences on English, ► pp. xv ff.
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2012. Bibliographical abbreviations. In External Influences on English, ► pp. xxv ff.
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2012. Preface. In External Influences on English, ► pp. x ff.
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