The Oxford Handbook of the History of English

Herausgeber: Nevalainen, Terttu; Traugott, Elizabeth Closs

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Produktbeschreibung

This ambitious Handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 984
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 171mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1634g
• ISBN-13: 9780190627881
• ISBN-10: 0190627883
• Artikelnr.: 47866289

Autorenporträt

Terttu Nevalainen is Professor of English, University of Helsinki. Elizabeth Closs Traugott is Professor Emerita of Linguistics, Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Contents
* Contributors
* Abbreviations
* Introduction: Rethinking and extending approaches to the history of
the English language. (Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs
Traugott)
* --PART I. RETHINKING EVIDENCE
* --Guide to Part I.
* --Evidence
* 1. Lead Chapter: Evidence for the history of English: Introduction.
(Susan Fitzmaurice and Jeremy Smith)
* 2. Evidence from sources prior to 1500. (Carole Hough)
* 3. Coins as evidence. (Philip Shaw)
* 4. Editing early English texts. (Simon Horobin)
* 5. Evidence from sources after 1500. (Joan C. Beal)
* 6. Examples of evidence from phonology
* 6.1 Middle English phonology in the digital age: What written corpora
can tell us about sound change. (Nikolaus Ritt)
* 6.2 Evidence for sound-change from Scottish corpora. (Wendy Anderson)
* 6.3 GOAT vowel variants in the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of
Tyneside English (DECTE). (Karen P. Corrigan)
* 6.4 Analyzing the ONZE data as evidence for sound change. (Jennifer
Hay)
* 7. Using dictionaries and thesauruses as evidence. (Julie Coleman)
* 8. Evidence from surveys and atlases in the history of the English
language. (William A. Kretzschmar Jr. and Merja Stenroos)
* 9. Evidence from historical corpora up to the twentieth century.
(Merja Kytö and Päivi Pahta)
* 10. Variability-based Neighbor Clustering: A bottom-up approach to
periodization in historical linguistics. (Stefan Th. Gries and Martin
Hilpert)
* 11. Data retrieval in a diachronic context: The case of the
historical English courtroom (Dawn Archer)
* --Observing recent change through electronic corpora
* 12. Lead Chapter: Some methodological issues related to corpus-based
investigations of recent syntactic changes in English. (Mark Davies)
* 13. "Small is beautiful " - On the value of standard reference
corpora for observing recent grammatical change. (Marianne Hundt and
Geoffrey Leech)
* 14. Exploring variation and change in New Englishes: Looking into the
International Corpus of English (ICE) and beyond. (Joybrato Mukherjee
and Marco Schilk)
* 15. Change in the English infinitival perfect construction. (Jill
Bowie and Bas Aarts)
* 16. Revisiting the reduplicative copula with corpus-based evidence.
(Anne Curzan)
* 17. Exploring aspects of the Great Complement Shift, with evidence
from the TIME Corpus and COCA. (Juhani Rudanko)
* 18. Diachronic collostructional analysis meets the noun phrase:
Studying many a noun in COHA. (Martin Hilpert)
* 19. From opportunistic to systematic use of the Web as corpus:
do-support with got (to) in contemporary American English. (Christian
Mair)
* --PART II. ISSUES IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
* --Guide to Part II.
* --Mass communication and technologies
* 20. Lead Chapter: Technologies of communication. (Thomas Kohnen and
Christian Mair)
* 21. Oral practices in the history of English. (Ursula Schaefer)
* 22. Forms of early mass communication: The religious domain. (Tanja
Rütten)
* 23. From manuscript to printing: Transformations of genres in the
history of English. (Claudia Claridge)
* 24. The competing demands of popularization vs. economy: Written
language in the age of mass literacy. (Douglas Biber and Bethany
Gray)
* 25. The impact of electronically-mediated communication on language
standards and style. (Naomi S. Baron)
* 26. Old news: Rethinking language change through Australian broadcast
speech. (Jenny Price)
* 27. The commodification of language: English as a global commodity.
(Deborah Cameron)
* --Socio-cultural processes
* 28. Lead Chapter: Socio-cultural processes and the history of
English. (Jonathan Culpeper and Minna Nevala)
* 29. Democratisation. (Michael Farrelly and Elena Seoane)
* 30. Changing attitudes and political correctness. (Geoffrey Hughes)
* 31. Social roles, identities, and networks. (Minna Palander-Collin)
* 32. Changes in politeness cultures. (Andreas H. Jucker)
* 33. The history of English seen as the history of ideas: Cultural
change reflected in different translations of the New Testament.
(Anna Wierzbicka)
* 34. Attitudes, prescriptivism, and standardisation. (Carol Percy)
* 35. Perceptions of dialects: Changing attitudes and ideologies.
(Chris Montgomery)
* 36. English in Ireland: A complex case study. (Tony Crowley)
* --PART III. APPROACHES FROM CONTACT AND TYPOLOGY
* --Guide to Part III.
* --Language contact
* 37. Lead Chapter: Assessing the role of contact in the history of
English. (Raymond Hickey)
* 38. Early English and the Celtic hypothesis. (Raymond Hickey)
* 39. Language contact in the Scandinavian period. (Angelika Lutz)
* 40. Language contact and linguistic attitudes in the Later Middle
Ages. (Tim William Machan)
* 41. Code-switching in English of the Middle Ages. (Päivi Pahta)
* 42. Ethnic dialects in North American English. (Charles Boberg)
* 43. Contact in the African area - A Southern African perspective.
(Ana Deumert and Rajend Mesthrie)
* 44. Contact in the Asian arena. (Lisa Lim and Umberto Ansaldo)
* 45. Contact-induced change in English world-wide. (Edgar W.
Schneider)
* 46. Second language varieties of English. (Devyani Sharma)
* 47. Pidgins and creoles in the history of English. (Donald Winford)
* --Typology and typological change
* 48. Lead Chapter: Typology and typological change in English
historical linguistics. (Bernd Kortmann)
* 49. The drift of English towards invariable word order from a
typological and Germanic perspective. (John A. Hawkins)
* 50. Typological hierarchies and frequency drifts in the history of
English. (Mikko Laitinen)
* 51. Lexical typology and typological changes in the English lexicon.
(Alexander Haselow)
* 52. Analyticity and syntheticity in the history of English. (Benedikt
Szmrecsanyi)
* 53. Grammaticalization in non-standard varieties of English and
English-based pidgins and creoles. (Agnes Schneider)
* 54. Towards an automated classification of Englishes. (Søren Wichmann
and Matthias Urban)
* --PART IV. RETHINKING CATEGORIES AND MODULES
* --Guide to Part IV.
* --Cycles and continua
* 55. Lead Chapter: Cycles and continua: On unidirectionality and
gradualness in language change. (Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero and Graeme
Trousdale)
* 56. Quantitative evidence for a feature-based account of
grammaticalisation in English: Jespersen's Cycle. (Phillip Wallage)
* 57. The syntax-lexicon continuum. (Cristiano Broccias)
* 58. Toward a unified theory of chain shifting. (Aaron J. Dinkin)
* 59. (Non)-rhoticity - Lessons from New Zealand English. (Jennifer Hay
and Alhana Clendon)
* 60. Lenition in English. (Patrick Honeybone)
* 61. Continua and clines in the development of New Englishes. (Devyani
Sharma and Caroline R. Wiltshire)
* --Interfaces with information structure
* 62. Lead Chapter: The interaction between syntax, information
structure, and prosody in word order change. (Roland Hinterhölzl and
Ans van Kemenade)
* 63. Rethinking the loss of Verb Second. (Ans van Kemenade)
* 64. Rethinking the OV/VO alternation in Old English: The effect of
complexity, grammatical weight, and information status. (Ann Taylor
and Susan Pintzuk)
* 65. The impact of focusing and defocusing on word order in OE and
OHG, and on changes at the right periphery in the middle periods.
(Svetlana Petrova)
* 66. The loss of local anchoring: From adverbial local anchors to
permissive subjects. (Bettelou Los and Gea Dreschler)
* 67. Stress clash and word order changes in the left periphery in Old
English and Middle English. (Augustin Speyer)
* 68. Clefts as resolution strategies after the loss of a
multifunctional first position. (Bettelou Los and Erwin Komen)
* Glossary
* List of corpora and databases
* Index of languages and language varieties
* Name index
* Subject index