Eaton Roger, Fischer Olga, Koopman Willem F., van der Leek Frederike (Eds.). Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10-13, 1985

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1985. — 360 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 41).These papers are a selection from papers presented at the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1985). Most studies deal with some aspect of an earlier stage of English, though present day varieties of English are also under investigation. Many of the papers show that there is a growing interest in the question why a certain change has taken place. Furthermore, the volume contains a considerable number of papers on historical syntax.‘I deny that I’m incapable of working all night’: Divergence of negative structures in British and Indian English - Jean Aitchison and Rama Kant Agnihotri
Relative Which in late 18th-century usage: the Clift family correspondence - Frances O. Austin
Lengthening of a in Tyneside English - Joan C. Beal
The origins of periphrastic Do: Ellegård and Visser reconsidered - David Denison
Synchronic variation and linguistic change: Evidence from british english dialects - Ossi Ihalainen
Old English infinitival complements and West-Germanic V-raising - Ans M.C. van Kemenade
The simplification of the Old English strong nominal paradigms - Samuel Jay Keyser and Wayne O'Neil
Verb and particle combinations in old and middle English - Willem F. Koopman
The impersonal verb in context: old English - Linnea M. Lagerquist
The south African Chain-shift: order out of chaos? - Roger Lass and Susan Wright
Of Rhyme and reason: some foot-governed quantity changes in English - Donka Minkova
Lexical variation of early modern English exclusive adverbs: Style switching or a change in progress? - Terttu Nevalainen
Some remarks on complementation in old English - Ruta Nagucka
The interpretation and development of form alternations conditioned across word boundaries: The case of Wife’s, Wives and Wives’ - Frans Plank
A note on the voicing of initial fricatives in middle English - Patricia Poussa
Expression of exclusiveness in old English and the development of the adverb only - Matti Rissanen
The great Scandinavian belt - M.L. Samuels
Discourse markers in early modern English - Dieter Stein
Assessment of alternative explanations of the middle English phenomenon of high vowel lowering when lengthened in the open syllable - Robert P. Stockwell
Preliminaries to the linguistic analysis of old Engllish glosses and glossaries - Thomas E. Toon
The role of INFL in word order change - Lisa DeMena Travis