The handbook of the history of English / / edited by Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820242503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
• ISBN: 9786611320850; 9781281320858; 1281320854; 9781780342351; 1780342357; 9781405164153; 1405164158; 9780470757048; 0470757043; 9780470756805; 0470756802
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (674 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell handbooks in linguistics
• Altri autori (Persone): KemenadeAns van <1954->; LosBettelou
• Disciplina: 420.9
• Soggetti: English language - History
• 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: The Handbook of the History of English; Contents; Editors' Introduction; Notes on Contributors; Part I Approaches and Issues; 1 Change for the Better? Optimality Theory versus History; 2 Cuing a New Grammar; 3 Variation and the Interpretation of Change in Periphrastic Do; 4 Evolutionary Models and Functional-Typological Theories of Language Change; Part II Words: Derivation and Prosody; 5 Old and Middle English Prosody; 6 Prosodic Preferences: From Old English to Early Modern English; 7 Typological Changes in Derivational Morphology; 8 Competition in English Word Formation; Part III Inflectional Morphology and Syntax9 Case Syncretism and Word Order Change; 10 Discourse Adverbs and Clausal Syntax in Old and ; Middle English; 11 The Loss of OV Order in the History of English; 12 Category Change and Gradience in the Determiner System; Part IV Pragmatics; 13 Pathways in the Development of Pragmatic Markers in English; 14 The Semantic Development of Scalar Focus Modifiers; 15 Information Structure and Word Order Change: The Passive as an Information-rearranging Strategy in the History of English; Part V Pre- and Post-colonial Varieties; 16 Old English Dialectology; 17 Early Middle English Dialectology: Problems and Prospects18 How English Became African American English; 19 Historical Change in Synchronic Perspective: The Legacy of British Dialects; 20 The Making of Hiberno-English and Other ""Celtic Englishes""; Part VI Standardization and Globalization; 21 Eighteenth-century Prescriptivism and the Norm of Correctness; 22 Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change; 23 Global English: From Island Tongue to World Language; Appendix: Useful Corpora for Research in English Historical Linguistics; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology offers readers a comprehensive overvie