The Old English Case System
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| Author | : Kirsten Middeke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Construction grammar |
| ISBN | : 9789004435278 |
The Old English Case System. Case and Argument Structure Constructions by Kirsten Middeke is a Construction Grammar account of Old English argument structure that integrates modern cognitive corpus linguistics and traditional philological work. This is the first major study on Old English morphosyntax from a constructional perspective, based on findings from various strands of theoretical linguistics, including generative approaches, constructionist accounts, quantitative linguistics, and many more. It argues for a new take on historical comparative syntax, a field which has been dormant for quite a while but might see a new boost through the ideas presented here.
| Author | : Merja Kytö |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1092 |
| Release | : 2016-05-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1316472914 |
English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English language. This Handbook provides an account of state-of-the-art research on this history. It offers an in-depth survey of materials, methods, and language-theoretical models used to study the long diachrony of English. The frameworks covered include corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics and manuscript studies, among others. The chapters, by leading experts, examine the interplay of language theory and empirical data throughout, critically assessing the work in the field. Of particular importance are the diverse data sources which have become increasingly available in electronic form, allowing the discipline to develop in new directions. The Handbook offers access to the rich and many-faceted spectrum of work in English historical linguistics, past and present, and will be useful for researchers and students interested in hands-on research on the history of English.
| Author | : Heidi Quinn |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027228062 |
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional differences between strong 1sg and non-1sg case forms and reveal systematic case variation within the speech of individuals as well as across speakers. The empirical findings suggest that morphological case is best treated as a PF phenomenon conditioned by semantic, syntactic, and phonological factors. In order to capture the way in which these linguistic factors interact to produce the pronoun case patterns exhibited by individual speakers, the author introduces a novel constraint-based approach to morphological case. Current case trends are also considered in a wider historical context and are related to a change in the licensing of structural arguments.
| Author | : Bruce Mitchell |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 2010 |
| Release | : 1985-02-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780195204704 |
| Author | : Orrin W. Robinson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134848994 |
This accessible introductory reference source surveys the linguistic and cultural background of the earliest known Germanic languages and examines their similarities and differences. The Languages covered include:Gothic Old Norse Old SaxonOld English Old Low Franconian Old High German Written in a lively style, each chapter opens with a brief cultural history of the people who used the language, followed by selected authentic and translated texts and an examination of particular areas including grammar, pronunciation, lexis, dialect variation and borrowing, textual transmission, analogy and drift.
| Author | : Goold Brown |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1124 |
| Release | : 1851 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Cynthia L. Allen |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 534 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780198238676 |
English underwent sweeping changes to its inflectional system in the Middle English period and it is widely assumed that the loss of case-marking distinctions had profound consequences for the syntax of the language. Allen here makes a detailed study of these changes, questioning the results of previous analyses which, she argues, posit too direct a link between the morphological and syntactic changes.
| Author | : Laurel Brinton |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2017-09-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110525305 |
The volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters investigate the state-of-the art in the linguistics of Old English and explore key areas of debate such as dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English and ends with a chapter discussing textual resources available for the study of earlier English.
| Author | : Anne Curzan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2003-04-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139436686 |
How and why did grammatical gender, found in Old English and in other Germanic languages, gradually disappear from English and get replaced by a system where the gender of nouns and the use of personal pronouns depend on the natural gender of the referent? How is this shift related to 'irregular agreement' (such as she for ships) and 'sexist' language use (such as generic he) in Modern English, and how is the language continuing to evolve in these respects? Anne Curzan's accessibly written and carefully researched study is based on extensive corpus data, and will make a major contribution by providing a historical perspective on these often controversial questions. It will be of interest to researchers and students in history of English, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, language and gender, and medieval studies.
| Author | : Elly van Gelderen |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2000-10-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902729917X |
This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and Middle English texts showing a person split between first, second, and third person pronouns. Extending an analysis by Reinhart & Reuland, the author argues that the ‘strength’ of certain pronominal features (Case, person, number) differs cross-linguistically and that parametric variation accounts for the changes in English. The framework used is Minimalist, and Interpretable and Uninterpretable features are seen as the key to explaining the change from a synthetic to an analytic language.
