LEADER 04494nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910820242503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611320850 010 $a9781281320858 010 $a1281320854 010 $a9781780342351 010 $a1780342357 010 $a9781405164153 010 $a1405164158 010 $a9780470757048 010 $a0470757043 010 $a9780470756805 010 $a0470756802 035 $a(CKB)1000000000404900 035 $a(EBL)351558 035 $a(OCoLC)437218789 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000168452 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153837 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000168452 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10179287 035 $a(PQKB)10044914 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC351558 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL351558 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10232893 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL132085 035 $a(PPN)226791351 035 $a(OCoLC)62324949 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB179470 035 $a(Perlego)2784272 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000404900 100 $a20051116d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe handbook of the history of English /$fedited by Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMalden, MA ;$aOxford $cBlackwell Pub.$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (674 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell handbooks in linguistics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781405187862 311 08$a1405187867 311 08$a9780631233442 311 08$a063123344X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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 327 $aPart 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 327 $a17 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 330 $aThe Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology offers readers a comprehensive overvie 410 0$aBlackwell handbooks in linguistics. 606 $aEnglish language$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish language$xHistory. 676 $a420.9 701 $aKemenade$b Ans van$f1954-$0164615 701 $aLos$b Bettelou$0772298 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820242503321 996 $aThe handbook of the history of English$92023621 997 $aUNINA