Gotti Maurizio, Dossena Marina, Dury Richard (Eds.). English Historical Linguistics 2006: Volume I: Syntax and Morphology

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — 285 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 295).Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006The 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.Old and Middle English
The balance between syntax and discourse in Old English - Ans M.C. van Kemenade, Tanja Milicev and Harald Baayen
The Old English copula weorðan and its replacement in Middle English - Peter Petré and Hubert Cuyckens
Verb types and word order in Old and Middle English non-coordinate and coordinate clauses - Kristin Bech
From locative to durative to focalized? The English progressive and 'PROG imperfective drift' - Kristin Killie
Gender assignment in Old English - Letizia Vezzosi
On the position of the OE quantifier eall and PDE all - Tomohiro Yanagi
On the Post-Finite Misagreement phenomenon in Late Middle English - Richard P. Ingham and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Syntactic dialectal variation in Middle English - Cristina Suárez-Gómez
Particles as grammaticalized complex predicates - Bettelou LosEarly and Late Modern English
Adverb-marking patterns in Earlier Modern English coordinate constructions - Amanda V. Pounder
'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
Emotion verbs with to-infinitive complements: From specific to general predication - Thomas Egan
Subjective progressives in seventeenth and eighteenth century English - Svenja Kranich