Temporal Adverbials in Old and Middle English
| Author | : Adam Pasicki |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : |
Temporal Adverbials In Old And Middle English
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Prepositions in Old and Middle English
| Author | : Tom Lundskær-Nielsen |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 1993-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 8774929224 |
The present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores changes in clausal word order. Furthermore, it provides a detailed semantic analysis of the three prepositions at, in and on in selected Old and Middle English texts, which shows to what extent the relative distribution of these prepositions changed during that period and how they gradually acquired new, extended senses.The front cover illustration renders the 895 entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Parker Ms., and has been reproduced with the permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
When-Clauses and Temporal Structure
| Author | : Renaat H. C. Declerck |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134732872 |
Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much attention in recent years. In this book, Declerck offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction when.
From OV to VO in Early Middle English
| Author | : Carola Trips |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2002-12-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027296278 |
This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed before, i.e., northern Early Middle English texts clearly show Scandinavian syntactic patterns like stylistic fronting that can only be found today in the Modern Scandinavian languages. Thus, it sheds new light on the force of language contact in that it shows that a language can be heavily influenced through contact with another language in such a way that it affects deeper levels of language. It further gives an introduction to working with the Penn-Helsinki-Parsed Corpus of Middle English II (PPCMEII). It discusses the texts included in the corpus, it describes the format of the texts, and it explains how to search the corpus with the tool called Corpus Search. The book targets researchers in diachronic syntax, comparative syntax and in general linguists working in the field of generative syntax. It can further be used as an introduction to working with the PPCMEII.
Historical English Syntax
| Author | : Dieter Kastovsky |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 521 |
| Release | : 2011-11-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110863316 |
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. For further publications in English linguistics see also our Dialects of English book series. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
| Author | : Joan L. Bybee |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 502 |
| Release | : 2001-10-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027298033 |
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used in discourse and second, the question of how frequency of use affects cognitive representations. Reporting on evidence from natural conversation, diachronic change, variability, child language acquisition and psycholinguistic experimentation the original articles in this book support two major principles. First, the content of people’s interactions consists of a preponderance of subjective, evaluative statements, dominated by the use of pronouns, copulas and intransitive clauses. Second, the frequency with which certain items and strings of items are used has a profound influence on the way language is broken up into chunks in memory storage, the way such chunks are related to other stored material and the ease with which they are accessed to produce new utterances.
Connectives in the History of English
| Author | : Ursula Lenker |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027247988 |
Clausal connection is one of the key building blocks of language and thus a field where a wide range of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and cognitive phenomena meet. The availability of large databases as well as considerable advances in corpus-linguistic methods have strengthened the interest in the history of features linking clauses or larger chunks of text. The papers in this volume combine a thorough corpus-based analysis of the history of individual connectives, their co-occurrence patterns, and patterns of variation and change from both intra- and inter-systemic perspectives with a variety of methodological tools, ranging from sophisticated methods of grammatical analysis to pragmatics, text linguistics and discourse analysis. Drawing on quantitatively and qualitatively improved data, the studies reconstruct the history of a wide range of connectives in English from various new theoretical perspectives.
The Handbook of the History of English
| Author | : Ans van Kemenade |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 678 |
| Release | : 2009-02-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1405187867 |
The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research
Quoting Speech in Early English
| Author | : Colette Moore |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2011-02-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0521199085 |
This study of speech representation in English texts from 1350-1600 examines the problems of interpreting discourse in these early works.
The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English
| Author | : Xinyue Yao |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2024-03-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027248605 |
This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English. Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’ context-independent meanings and context-dependent inferences. State-of-the-art corpus linguistic methods are used to track their functional changes over two and a half centuries. The book presents new evidence of grammatical change and offers a compelling, contact-based account of regional variation. It brings together the insights of various fields, including formal semantics, historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and variationist sociolinguistics.
