English Historical Linguistics 2006

Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006

Volume I: Syntax and Morphology

Editors

Maurizio Gotti

| University of Bergamo

Marina Dossena

| University of Bergamo

Richard Dury

| University of Bergamo

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The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many innovative contributions focused on syntax and morphology. A carefully peer-reviewed selection, including one of the plenary lectures, appears here in print for the first time, bearing witness to the quality of the scholarly interest in this field of research. In all the contributions, well-established methods combine with new theoretical approaches in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. State-of-the-art tools, such as electronic corpora and concordancing software, are employed consistently, ensuring a methodological homogeneity of the contributions.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295] 2008. xiv, 259 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.295

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii–viii
Introduction Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury	ix–xiv
Part I. Old and Middle English	1
The balance between syntax and discourse in Old English Ans M.C. van Kemenade, Tanja Milicev and Harald Baayen	3–21
The Old English copula weorðan and its replacement in Middle English Peter Petré and Hubert Cuyckens	23–48
Verb types and word order in Old and Middle English non-coordinate and coordinate clauses Kristin Bech	49–67
From locative to durative to focalized? The English progressive and 'PROG imperfective drift' Kristin Killie	69–88
Gender assignment in Old English Letizia Vezzosi	89–108
On the position of the OE quantifier eall and PDE all Tomohiro Yanagi	109–124
On the Post-Finite Misagreement phenomenon in Late Middle English Richard P. Ingham and Kleanthes K. Grohmann	125–140
Syntactic dialectal variation in Middle English Cristina Suárez-Gómez	141–156
Particles as grammaticalized complex predicates Bettelou Los	157–179
Part II. Early and Late Modern English	181
Adverb-marking patterns in Earlier Modern English coordinate constructions Amanda V. Pounder	183–201
'Tis he, 'tis she, 'tis me, 'tis – I don't know who … cleft and identificational constructions in 16th to 18th century English plays Claudia Lange and Ursula Schaefer	203–221
Emotion verbs with to-infinitive complements: From specific to general predication Thomas Egan	223–240
Subjective progressives in seventeenth and eighteenth century English Svenja Kranich	241–256
Index of subjects & terms	257–259

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PETRÉ, PETER

2010. The functions of weorðan and its loss in the past tense in Old and Middle English. English Language and Linguistics 14:3 ► pp. 457 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Germanic linguistics

English linguistics

BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2008002770 | Marc record