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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808879203321

Titolo

Studies in the history of the English language VI : evidence and method in histories of English / / edited by Michael Adams, Laurel J. Brinton, R.D. Fulk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-11-039502-9

3-11-034595-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Topics in english linguistics, , 1434-3452 ; ; volume 85

Classificazione

HE 130

Disciplina

420.9

Soggetti

English language - History

English language - Grammar, Historical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Evidence and method in the historical study of English -- The development of free adjuncts in English and Dutch -- Semantic dependencies and the history of ellipsis alternation -- The phrasal verb in American English: Using corpora to track down historical trends in particle distribution, register variation, and noun collocations -- On the grammaticalization of the thing is and related issues in the history of American English -- Alfredian īo ~ ēo, reluctant function words, and Schriftbilder -- Metrical resolution, spelling, and the reconstruction of Old English syllabification -- The shortest history of vowel lengthening in English -- Vowel system restructuring in the West Midlands of England -- Style and politics in The Battle of Brunanburh and The Battle of Maldon -- Trinitarian terminology in Old English liturgical creeds -- Ælc þara þe þas min word gehierþ and þa wyrcþ ... : Psycholinguistic perspectives on early Englishes -- Complex systems and the history of the English language -- An ideological history of the English term onomatopoeia -- Name index -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume – which ranges



chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora – challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.