Rissanen Matti, Ihalainen Ossi, Nevalainen Terttu (eds.) History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics

Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. — 801 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics). — ISBN 3110132168, 9783110132168.This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The conference was held at the University of Helsinki in May 1990 as one of the events of the 350th jubilee year of the University. The topics of the papers accepted for inclusion clearly show the increasing interest in geographical and social variation and in the detailed study of texts in English historical linguistics. It is also interesting to note that the former distinct borderline between historical linguistics and philology is disappearing. Although the aims and methods of these two approaches should not be confused, they clearly support each other and scholars will benefit greatly from the mastery of the basic methodologies of both in their attempts to describe and explain the past stages and development of English.The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.Theory and methodology
Translation and the history of English
N. F. Blake
The evidence for analytic and synthetic developments in English
Andrei Danchev
Evidence for regular sound change in English dialect geography
William Labov
A social model for the interpretation of language change
James Milroy
How to study Old English syntax?
Bruce Mitchell
Phonology and orthography
Exceptionality and non-specification in the history of English phonology
John Anderson
The myth of "the Anglo-Norman scribe"
Cecily Clark
Old English ABCs
Anne King
What, if anything, was the Great Vowel Shift?
Roger Lass
Lexical and morphological consequences of phonotactic change in the history of English
Angelika Lutz
Lexical phonology and diachrony
April M. S. McMahon
Homorganic clusters as moric busters in the history of English: the case of -ld, -nd, -mb
Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell
Middle English vowel quantity reconsidered
Nikolaus Ritt
Morphology and syntax
On explaining the historical development of English genitives
Hans Ulrich Boas
A touch of (sub-)class? Old English "Preterite-Present" verbs
Fran Colman
The information present: present tense for communication in the past
David Denison
Structural factors in the history of English modals
Ans van Kemenade
Subordinating uses of and in the history of English
Juhani Klemola and Markku Filppula
The distribution of verb forms in Old English subordinate clauses
Willem F. Koopman
Relative constructions and functional amalgamation in Early Modern English
Lilo Moessner
The use of to and for in Old English
Ruta Nagucka
Man's son/son of man: translation, textual conditioning, and the history of the English genitive
Thomas E. Nunnally
Why is the element order to cwæð him 'said to him' impossible?
Michiko Ogura
On the development of the by-agent in English
Kirsti Peitsara
Pragmatics of this and that
Patricia Poussa
A valency description of Old English possessive verbs
Herbert Schendl
Who(m)? Constraints on the loss of case marking of wh-pronouns in the English of Shakespeare and other poets of the Early Modern English period
Edgar W. Schneider
"I not say": bridge phenomenon in syntactic change
Masatomo Ukaji
Lexis and semantics
The status of word formation in Middle English: approaching the question
Christiane Dalton-Puffer
Post-dating Romance loan-words in Middle English: Are the French words of the Katherine Group English?
Juliette Dor
Rich Lake: a case history
Veronika Kniezsa
Varieties and dialects
The evolution of a vernacular
Guy Bailey and Garry Ross
Relativization in the Dorset dialect
Nadine Van den Eynden
William Barnes and the south west dialect of English
Bernard Jones
A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: the value of texts surviving in more than one version
Margaret Laing
A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: tradition and typology
Jeremy J. Smith
A chapter in the worldwide spread of English: Malta
Gabriella Mazzon
"Du's no heard da last o'dis" — on the use of be as a perfective auxiliary in Shetland dialect
Gunnel Melchers
On the morphology of verbs in Middle Scots: present and present perfect indicative
Anneli Meurman-Solin
The pace of change in Appalachian English
Michael Montgomery and Curtis Chapman
Variability in Old English and the Continental Germanic languages
Hans F. Nielsen
Variability in Tok Pisin phonology: "Did you say 'pig' or 'fig'?"
Suzanne Romaine
Text types and individual texts
Chaucer's Boece: a syntactic and lexical analysis
Henk Aertsen
The linguistic evolution of five written and speech-based English genres from the 17th to the 20th centuries
Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan
The do variant field in questions and negatives: Jane Austen's Complete Letters and Mansfield Park
Mary Jane Curry
The repertoire of topic changers in personal, intimate letters: a diachronic study of Osborne and Woolf
Anne Finell
Text-types and language history: the cookery recipe
Manfred Görlach
Macaronic writing in a London archive, 1380—1480
Laura Wright
Abbreviations of titles of textual sources
Name index
Subject index