Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English

Editors

Simone E. Pfenninger | University Zurich

Olga Timofeeva | University Zurich

Anne-Christine Gardner | University Zurich

Alpo Honkapohja | University Zurich

Marianne Hundt | University Zurich

Daniel Schreier | University Zurich

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The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such as methods for quantifying the linguistic variation (that is a prerequisite for language change) or new corpus-based methods for investigating text-type variation, the contributors are able to trace linguistic change in different periods and contact situations, demonstrate how variation occurs, and in how far language change results out of this variation. Thus, the chapters go beyond core issues of language variation and change, focusing on the boundary between word and grammar, discourse and ideology in the history of the English language.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 159] 2014. vi, 326 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 25 August 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.159

Table of Contents

Preface

At the crossroads of language change, variation, and contact

Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier | pp. 1–8

PART I: Language change

Knitting and splitting information: Medial placement of linking adverbials in the history of English

Ursula Lenker | pp. 11–38

The order of adverbials of time and place in Old English

Susanne Chrambach | pp. 39–60

The demise of a preterite-present verb: Why was unnan lost?

Anna Wojtyś | pp. 61–82

Gradience in an abrupt change: Stress shift in English disyllabic noun-verb pairs

Betty S. Phillips | pp. 83–94

Vowels before /r/ in the history of English

Raymond Hickey | pp. 95–110

PART II: Language variation

“Pained the eye and stunned the ear”: Language ideology and the progressive passive in the nineteenth century

Lieselotte Anderwald | pp. 113–136

Watching as-clauses in Late Modern English

Cristiano Broccias | pp. 137–162

Colloquialization and “decolloquialization”: Phrasal verbs in formal contexts, 1650–1990

Paula Rodríguez-Puente | pp. 163–186

Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor (England, c. 1750–1835): Approaching linguistic diversity in Late Modern English

Mikko Laitinen and Anita Auer | pp. 187–212

New-dialect formation in medieval Ireland: A corpus-based study of Irish English pre-modal verbs

Marije van Hattum | pp. 213–238

Tracing uses of will and would in Late Modern British and Irish English

Patricia Ronan | pp. 239–256

PART III: Variation and change in contact situations

The subjunctive mood in Philippine English: A diachronic analysis

Peter Collins, Ariane Macalinga Borlongan, Joo-Hyuk Lim and Xinyue Yao | pp. 259–280

Revisiting a millennium of migrations: Contextualizing Dutch/Low-German influence on English dialect lexis

Emil Chamson | pp. 281–304

<U> or <o>: A dilemma of the Middle English scribal practice

Jerzy Welna | pp. 305–324

Index | pp. 325–326

“This collection of papers from the 17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics demonstrates the multifarious nature of this discipline. Contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars present a wide range of studies cutting across the themes of language variation, contact and change over all periods from Old English to the very recent past and including world Englishes. This volume provides an exciting snapshot of a dynamic discipline and is essential reading for those wanting to know the state of the art in English (socio-)historical linguistics.”

Joan C. Beal, University of Sheffield

Erratum

Due to a mishap in production a non-final version of the article by Ursula Lenker was published in the print edition of the book. Please see the corrected, complimentary full text version.

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