Full Description
The papers in this volume celebrate the work of Angus McIntosh, who specialized in dialects of Later Middle English, and wrote on other topics in English linguistics as well. Of the papers in this volume most deal with English and a few with other subjects in (historical) dialectology.
Contents
1. Dedicatory preface; 2. Lemmatization - the case of 'Catalpa' (by Cassidy, Frederic G.); 3. Marking and frequency in the english verb (by Catford, John C.); 4. Complements and humours (by Cusack, Bridget); 5. Problems in dyirbal dialectology (by Dixon, R.M.W.); 6. The phonological representation of the welsh mutations (by Ewen, Colin J.); 7. Has every sentence a theme and a rheme? (by Firbas, Jan); 8. Isophones or isographs? A problem in historical dialectology (by Fisiak, Jacek); 9. The de-automization of meaning: from Priestley's 'An inspector calls' (by Halliday, M.A.K.); 10. 'Thwaite' (by Hamp, Eric P.); 11. Rhymes and reasons, the practice of two poets (by Hill, Archibald A.); 12. two geminate consonants in old english? (by Hogg, Richard M.); 13. Borrow, calgue and switch: The law of the english frontier (by Macaulay, Donald); 14. The stylistic analysis of poetic texts: Owen's 'Futility' and Davie's 'the garden party' (by Macleod, Norman); 15. Old english Man 'One': two notes (by Mitchell, Bruce); 16. Simplifying the grammar of english (by O'Neil, Wayne); 17. Verbal aspect: a slavonic-english comparison (by Poldauf, Ivan); 18. Communicative needs in the learning and use of english (by Pride, John B.); 19. Supplementing corpus elicitation (by Quirk, Randolph); 20. Latin for old english in anglo-saxon manuscripts (by Robinson, Fred C.); 21. Wh- and Yes/no questions: Charles butler's grammar (1633) and the history of a linguistic concept (by Salmon, Vivian); 22. Some aspects of the history of the Be+ing construction (by Strang, Barbara M.H.); 23. A note on the indefinite article (by Thorne, James P.); 24. Written language as a heterogeneous system (by Vachek, Josef)
