Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998
Descrizione fisica	ix, 489 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Disciplina	425
Altri autori (Persone)	Fisiak, Jacek Krygier, Marcin
Collana	Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 112
Soggetto topico	Lingua inglese - Grammatica storica English language - Grammar, Historical English language - History
ISBN	3110161516 (cloth : alk. paper)
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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.
Record Nr.	UNISALENTO-991001388079707536

Autore	Lenker Ursula
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (309 p.)
Disciplina	425/.76
Collana	Topics in English linguistics
Soggetto topico	English language - Adverbials English language - Connectives English language - History English language - Grammar, Historical English language - Grammar
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-71440-6 9786612714405 3-11-021606-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1. The framework -- 2. Clausal connection -- 3. The category "adverb" -- 4. Adverbs and conjunctions in earlier metalinguistic thought -- 5. Connectors in Old English -- 6. Adverbial connectors in the history of English -- 7. Adverbial connectors: morphology -- 8. Cognitive source domains -- 9. Shifting deictics in the history of English causal connection -- 10. contrast/concession -- 11. addition -- 12. transition -- 13. Perspicuity and the "New Rhetoric" -- 14. Conclusions -- Backmatter
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456305403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia [Pa.], : John Benjamins Pub., c2004
Descrizione fisica	viii, 268 p. : ill., maps
Disciplina	415
Altri autori (Persone)	KayChristian SmithJ. J (Jeremy J.)
Collana	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory
Soggetto topico	English language - Grammatical categories English language - Grammar, Historical
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	90-272-8540-3 9786613092465 1-283-09246-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457260303321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2004.
Descrizione fisica	viii, 268 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Disciplina	415
Altri autori (Persone)	Kay, Christian Smith, J. J. (Jeremy J.)
Altri autori (Convegni)	Symposium on Classification and Categorization (1999 : Institute for the Historical Study of Language)
Collana	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 261
Soggetto topico	English language - Grammatical categories Lingua inglese - Grammatica storica English language - Grammar, Historical
ISBN	1588116190 (alk. paper) 9027247757 (Eur.)
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISALENTO-991001098199707536

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (324 p.)
Disciplina	429/.56
Altri autori (Persone)	DiewaldGabriele Kahlas-TarkkaLeena WischerIlse <1959->
Collana	Studies in language companion series
Soggetto topico	English language - Grammar, Comparative English language - Grammar, Historical Germanic languages - Grammar, Comparative Germanic languages - Grammar, Historical Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammaticalization
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	90-272-7145-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Verbal categories and their diachronic development in Old English and Old High German; 2. Grammaticalisation, comparative diachronic linguistics and socio-cultural/philological aspects; 3. Historical comparative corpus studies; 4. The verbal categories studied in this volume; 5. Summary and outlook; References; *haitan in Gothic and Old English; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 2.1 Corpora and data collection; 3. Results 3.1 Functions of Gothic haitan and Old English hātan3.1.1 Gothic; 3.1.2 Early Old English; 3.1.3 Late Old English; 3.1.4 Comparison of Gothic and Early and Late Old English; 3.2 Competitors of haitan in Gothic; 4. Discussion and conclusion; Appendix; Early Old English Texts; Late Old English Texts; References; Incipient Grammaticalisation; 1. Introduction; 2. Problems with the traditional view of an Old High German and Old English passive; 2.1 Old High German; 2.2 Old English; 3. Theoretical considerations for the interpretation of constructions with the past participle in English and German 3.1 The copulas: OHG sīn/wesan and werdan, OE s-copula and weorðan3.2 Past participle; 3.3 Constructions with the past participle; 3.3.1 Constructions with stative copula: Sīn/wesan, s-copula plus past participle; 3.2.2 Constructions with inchoative copula: Werdan/weorðan plus past participle; 4. Considerations about different incipient stages of grammaticalisation of "passive" constructions in Late Old English and Old High German; 5. Conclusion and further research; References; Passive auxiliaries in English and German; 1. Introduction; 2. Previous studies; 2.1 Old English 2.2 Old High German3. A different approach: Constructional environments; 4. Bounded and unbounded language use; 4.1 Status in Present Day English and New High German; 4.2 The bounded system of Old English and its breakdown; 4.3 The bounded system of German and its grammaticalisation; 5. Convergence and divergence in the development of the English and German passive; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Corpora and data; 5.3 Clause type; 5.4 Time adverbs; 5.5 Word order; 6. Conclusion; References; Causative habban in Old English; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The structure of the paper; 1.2 The construction 1.3 The corpus studied 1.4 The causative habban instances; 1.5 Previous studies; 2. Discussion; 2.1 Diachronic and dialectal breakdown; 2.2 Syntactic properties of causative habban constructions; 2.3 Semantic properties of causative habban constructions; 2.4 An analysis of the OE instances listed as causative in Section 1.3; 2.5 A hypothesis concerning the rise of causative habban; 2.6 The triggering of the grammaticalisation process: the rise of causative habban in the light of Diewald's context-sensitive grammaticalisation scenario; 3. Final remarks; References; Remembering ( ge)munan 1. Introduction
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452408103321