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Full Description
This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process - such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation - through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically. The linguistic fields treated include word semantics, stylistics, orthography, word-order, pragmatics and lexicography. The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto's writings and an index of linguistic terms.
Contents
Contents: Udo Fries: Sentence Length, Sentence Complexity and the Noun Phrase in 18th-Century News Publications - Elly van Gelderen: Negative Concord and the Negative Cycle in the History of English - Michio Hosaka: The Rise of the Complementizer that in the History of English - Yoko Iyeiri: Negation in Fragments A, B and C of the Hunter Manuscript of The Romaunt of the Rose - Ohkado Masayuki: On Stylistic Fronting in Middle English Prose - Fuyo Osawa: Syntactic Passive: Its Rise and Growth in the History of English - Hironori Suzuki: Ordering Main and Modal Verbs in the Production of Old English Poetry - Dieter Kastovsky: Translation Techniques in the Terminology of Ælfric's Grammar: Semantic Loans, Loan Translations and Word-Formation - Manfred Markus: Features of Spokenness in Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary - Meiko Matsumoto: Semantic Shifts in the Development of Color Terms in English - Fujio Nakamura: Uncovering of Rare or Unknown Usages: A History of seem Meaning 'to pretend' - John Scahill: Prodigal Early Middle English Orthographies: Minds and Manuscripts - Harumi Tanabe: The Rivalry of give up and its Synonymous Verbs in Modern English - Laurel J. Brinton: From Performative to Concessive Disjunct: I/you admit and admittedly - Tomohiro Kawabata: On the Rise of but-concessive Constructions: From the Viewpoint of Grammaticalization - Matti Rissanen: On the History of unless - Reijirou Shibasaki: On the Transition of Transitivity in English - Shihoko Yamamoto: The Comment Clause in the Spectator - A Bibliography of Professor Minoji Akimoto compiled by Shihoko Yamamoto.
