In:Late Modern English: Novel encounters
Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
[Studies in Language Companion Series 214] 2020
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
PrefaceVII
Introduction: Late Modern English studies into the twenty-first century1
Merja Kytö
Erik Smitterberg
Part I.Phonology
“A received pronunciation”: Eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries and the precursors of
RP21
Joan Beal
The interplay of internal and external factors in varieties of
English43
Raymond Hickey
Part II.Morphosyntax
The myth of American English gotten as a historical
retention67
Lieselotte Anderwald
Changes affecting relative clauses in Late Modern English91
Julia Bacskai-Atkari
Diffusion of do: The acquisition of do negation by have
(to)117
Tomoharu Hirota
A diachronic constructional analysis of locative alternation in English,
with special reference to load and
spray143
Yasuaki Ishizaki
Part III.Orthography, vocabulary and semantics
In search of “the lexicographic stamp”: George Augustus Sala, slang and Late Modern English
dictionaries167
Rita Queiroz de Barros
“Divided by a common language”? The treatment of Americanism(s) in Late-Modern
English dictionaries and usage guides on both sides of the
Atlantic185
Ulrich Busse
Women writers in the 18th century: The semantics of motion in their choice of perfect
auxiliaries203
Nuria Calvo Cortés
Eighteenth-century French cuisine terms and their semantic integration in
English219
Julia Landmann
Spelling normalisation of Late Modern English: A comparison of VARD and character-based statistical machine
translation243
Gerold Schneider
Part IV.Pragmatics and discourse
A far from simple matter revisited: The ongoing grammaticalization of far from271
Laurel J. Brinton
Tohru Inoue
What it means to describe speech: Pragmatic variation and change in speech descriptors in Late Modern
English295
Peter J. Grund
Being Wilde: Social representation of the public image of Oscar Wilde315
Minna Nevala
Arja Nurmi
“I am desired (…) to desire”: Routines of power in the British Colonial Office correspondence on the
Cape Colony (1827–1830)333
Matylda Włodarczyk
