Studies in the History of the English Language

The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.

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Donka Minkova is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA. Robert Stockwell is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA.

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I. MILLENNIAL PERSPECTIVES From etymological to historical pragmaticsElizabeth Closs Traugott Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguisticsHerbert Schendl Dialectology and the history of the English languageWilliam Kretzchmar Origin unknownAnatoly Liberman Issues for a new history of English prosodyThomas Cable Chaucer: Folk poet or littérateur?Gilbert Youmans / Xingzhong Li A rejoinder to Youmans and LiThomas Cable II. PHONOLOGY AND METRICS On the development of English rBlaine Erickson Vowel variation in English rhymeKristin Hanson Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound changeBetty Phillips Dating criteria for Old English poemsGeoffrey Russom How much shifting actually occured in the historical English vowel shift?Robert Stockwell Restoration of /a/ revisitedDavid White III. MORPHOSYNTAX / SEMANTICS Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern EnglishMaurizio Gotti Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in EnglishEdward Keenan Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbsAns van Kemenade The "have" perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect?Jeong-Hoon Lee Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositionsColette Moore The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguisticsBenji Wald and Lawrence Besserman IV. ENVOY A thousand years of the history of EnglishRichard Bailey