Advances in English historical linguistics (1996) / edited by Jacek Fisiak, Marcin Krygier

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991001388079707536
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998
• ISBN: 3110161516 (cloth : alk. paper)
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 489 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Collana: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 112
• Altri autori (Persone): Fisiak, Jacek; Krygier, Marcin
• Disciplina: 425
• Soggetti: Lingua inglese - Grammatica storica; English language - Grammar, Historical; English language - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Double prepositions in English / Gunnar Bergh -- Motivations for producing and analyzing compounds in Wulfstan's sermons / Don Chapman -- The degrammaticalization of addressee-satisfaction conditionals in Early Modern English / Guohua Chen -- From unasecendlic to unspeakable: The role of domain structure in morphological change / Christiane Dalton-Puffer -- Anthony Huish: A 17th-century English grammarian / Roberta Facchinetti -- John Bullokar's "Termes of Art" / Maurizio Gotti -- The Dublin Vowel Shift and the historical perspective / Raymond Hickey -- On the ideological boundaries of Old English dialects / Richard M. Hogg -- The spread of-ly to present participles / Kristin Killie -- Inversion after single and multiple topics in Old English / Willem F. Koopman -- Epenthesis and Mouillierung in the explanation of i-umlaut: The rise and fall of a theory / Marcin Krygier -- On minor declarative complementizers in the history of English: The case of but / Maria Jose Lopez-Couso and Belen Mendez-Naya.; Bare and to-infinitives in Old English: Callaway revisited / Bettelou Los -- The interplay of external and internal factors in morphological restructuring: The case of you / Angelika Lutz -- The origins of long-short allomorphy in English / Donka Minkova and Robert P. Stockwell -- Modals in past counterfactual conditional protases / Rafal Molencki ; -- Downsizing the preterite-presents in Middle English / Stephen J. Nagle and Sara L. Sanders -- Social mobility and the decline of multiple negation in Early Modern English / Terttu Nevalainen -- The grammaticalization in Medieval English / Michiko Ogura -- Evolution theory and lexical diffusion / Mieko Ogura and William S.-Y. Wang -- On nominative case assignment in Old English / Masayuki Ohkado -- Social factors and pronominal change in the seventeenth century: The Civil-War effect? / Helena Raumolin-Brunberg -- Towards an integrated view of the development of English: Notes on causal linking / Matti Rissanen.; Problems of functional structure in some relative clauses / Aimo Seppanen -- Eighteenth-century linguistics and authorship: The cases of Dyche, Priestley, and Buchanan / Robin D. Smith -- Adverbialization and subject-modification in Old English / Toril Swan -- Standardization of English spelling: The eighteenth-century printers' contribution / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- The functional relationship between rules (Old English voicing of fricatives and lengthening of vowels before homorganic clusters) / Jerzy Welna.