Kay Christian, Horobin Simon, Smith Jeremy (Eds.). New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Volume I: Syntax and Morphology

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. — 275 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 251).Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002This is the first of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The second is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (2): Lexis and Transmission. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field. In this volume, the primary concern is with the historical grammar of English. Some papers take a broad overview of the subject, positioning it within current advances in linguistic theory, while others deal with specific points of syntax and morphology in a historical context. There is a recurrent emphasis on data collection and analysis, with a chronological range from Old to Present Day English, and a geographical spread from Scotland to Newfoundland. Contributions from scholars around the world remind us that not only English itself but the history of English is now an international possession.Verbal -s reconsidered: The Subject Type Constraint as a diagnostic of historical transatlantic relationship - Sandra Clarke
Do grammars change when they leak? - David Denison
Grammar change versus language change: Is there a difference? - Olga Fischer
Indefinite Pronominal Anaphora in English correspondence between 1500 and 1800 - Mikko Laitinen
From resultative predicate to event-modifier: The case of forth and on - Bettelou Los
Family values - April McMahon and Robert McMahon
From inventory to typology in English historical dialectology - Anneli Meurman-Solin
Consumers of correctness: Men, women, and language in eighteenth-century classified advertisements - Carol Percy
Accounting for vernacular features in a Scottish dialect: Relic, innovation, analogy and drift - Jennifer Smith
On MV/VM order in Beowulf - Hironori Suzuki
DARE and NEED in British and American present-day English: 1960s–1990s - Martine Taeymans
What drove do? - Anthony Warner
The HAVE -‘perfect’ in Old English - Ilse Wischer