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1 online resource (xxxix, 942 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford handbooks in linguistics |
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Oxford handbooks in linguistics.
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| Contents |
Part 1: Rethinking evidence. Lead Chapter: Evidence for the history of English: Introduction / Susan Fitzmaurice and Jeremy Smith ; Evidence from sources prior to 1500 / Carole Hough ; Coins as evidence / Philip Shaw ; Editing early English texts / Simon Horobin ; Evidence from sources after 1500 / Joan C. Beal ; Examples of evidence from phonology ; Using dictionaries and thesauruses as evidence / Julie Coleman ; Evidence from surveys and atlases in the history of the English language / William A. Kretzschmar Jr. and Merja Stenroos ; Evidence from historical corpora up to the twentieth century / Merja Kytö and Päivi Pahta / Variability-based Neighbor Clustering: A bottom-up approach to periodization in historical linguistics / Stefan Th |
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Gries and Martin Hilpert ; Data retrieval in a diachronic context: The case of the historical English courtroom / Dawn Archer ; Lead Chapter: Some methodological issues related to corpus-based investigations of recent syntactic changes in English / Mark Davies ; "Small is beautiful." |
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On the value of standard reference corpora for observing recent grammatical change / Marianne Hundt and Geoffrey Leech ; Exploring variation and change in New Englishes: Looking into the International Corpus of English (ICE) and beyond / Joybrato Mukherjee and Marco Schilk ; Change in the English infinitival perfect construction / Jill Bowie and Bas Aarts ; Revisiting the reduplicative copula with corpus-based evidence / Anne Curzan ; Exploring aspects of the Great Complement Shift, with evidence from the TIME Corpus and COCA / Juhani Rudanko ; Diachronic collostructional analysis meets the noun phrase: Studying many a noun in COHA / Martin Hilpert ; From opportunistic to systematic use of the Web as corpus: do-support with got (to) in contemporary American English / Christian Mair |
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Part 2: issues in culture and society. Lead Chapter: Technologies of communication / Thomas Kohnen and Christian Mair ; Oral practices in the history of English / Ursula Schaefer ; Forms of early mass communication: The religious domain / Tanja Rütten ; From manuscript to printing: Transformations of genres in the history of English / Claudia Claridge ; The competing demands of popularization vs. economy: Written language in the age of mass literacy / Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray ; The impact of electronically-mediated communication on language standards and style / Naomi S |
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Baron ; Old news: Rethinking language change through Australian broadcast speech / Jenny Price ; The commodification of language: English as a global commodity / Deborah Cameron ; Lead Chapter: Socio-cultural processes and the history of English / Jonathan Culpeper and Minna Nevala ; Democratisation / Michael Farrelly and Elena Seoane ; Changing attitudes and political correctness / Geoffrey Hughes ; Social roles, identities, and networks / Minna Palander-Collin ; Changes in politeness cultures / Andreas H. Jucker ; The history of English seen as the history of ideas: Cultural change reflected in different translations of the New Testament / Anna Wierzbicka ; Attitudes, prescriptivism, and standardisation / Carol Percy ; Perceptions of dialects: Changing attitudes and ideologies / Chris Montgomery ; English in Ireland: A complex case study / Tony Crowley |
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Part 3: Approaches from contact and typology. Lead Chapter: Assessing the role of contact in the history of English / Raymond Hickey ; Early English and the Celtic hypothesis / Raymond Hickey ; Language contact in the Scandinavian period / Angelika Lutz ; Language contact and linguistic attitudes in the Later Middle Ages / Tim William Machan ; Code-switching in English of the Middle Ages / Päivi Pahta ; Ethnic dialects in North American English / Charles Boberg ; Contact in the African area |
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A Southern African perspective / Ana Deumert and Rajend Mesthrie ; Contact in the Asian arena / Lisa Lim and Umberto Ansaldo ; Contact-induced change in English world-wide / Edgar W. Schneider ; Second language varieties of English / Devyani Sharma ; Pidgins and creoles in the history of English / Donald Winford ; Lead Chapter: Typology and typological change in English historical linguistics / Bernd Kortmann ; The drift of English towards invariable word order from a typological and Germanic perspective /John A. Hawkins ; Typological hierarchies and frequency drifts in the history of English / Mikko Laitinen ; Lexical typology and typological changes in the English lexicon / Alexander Haselow ; Analyticity and syntheticity in the history of English / Benedikt Szmrecsanyi / Grammaticalization in non-standard varieties of English and English-based pidgins and creoles / Agnes Schneider ; Towards an automated classification of Englishes / Søren Wichmann and Matthias Urban |
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Part 4: Rethinking categories and modules. Lead Chapter: Cycles and continua: On unidirectionality and gradualness in language change / Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero and Graeme Trousdale ; Quantitative evidence for a feature-based account of grammaticalisation in English: Jespersen's Cycle / Phillip Wallage ; The syntax-lexicon continuum / Cristiano Broccias ; Toward a unified theory of chain shifting / Aaron J. Dinkin ; (Non)-rhoticity |
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Lessons from New Zealand English / Jennifer Hay and Alhana Clendon / Lenition in English / Patrick Honeybone ; Continua and clines in the development of New Englishes / Devyani Sharma and Caroline R |
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Wiltshire ; Lead Chapter: The interaction between syntax, information structure, and prosody in word order change / Roland Hinterhölzl and Ans van Kemenade ; Rethinking the loss of Verb Second / Ans van Kemenade ; Rethinking the OV/VO alternation in Old English: The effect of complexity, grammatical weight, and information status / Ann Taylor and Susan Pintzuk ; The impact of focusing and defocusing on word order in OE and OHG, and on changes at the right periphery in the middle periods / Svetlana Petrova ; The loss of local anchoring: From adverbial local anchors to permissive subjects / Bettelou Los and Gea Dreschler ; Stress clash and word order changes in the left periphery in Old English and Middle English / Augustin Speyer ; Clefts as resolution strategies after the loss of a multifunctional first position / Bettelou Los and Erwin Komen |
| Summary |
This ambitious Handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- History.
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English language
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Engels.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Handboeken (vorm)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Nevalainen, Terttu, editor.
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Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780199971237 |
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0199971234 |
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