基本説明
The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many innovative contributions focused on syntax and morphology.
Full Description
The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many innovative contributions focused on syntax and morphology. A carefully peer-reviewed selection, including one of the plenary lectures, appears here in print for the first time, bearing witness to the quality of the scholarly interest in this field of research. In all the contributions, well-established methods combine with new theoretical approaches in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. State-of-the-art tools, such as electronic corpora and concordancing software, are employed consistently, ensuring a methodological homogeneity of the contributions.
Contents
1. Foreword; 2. Introduction (by Gotti, Maurizio); 3. Part I. Old and Middle English; 4. The balance between syntax and discourse in Old English (by Kemenade, Ans M.C. van); 5. The Old English copula weordan and its replacement in Middle English (by Petre, Peter); 6. Verb types and word order in Old and Middle English non-coordinate and coordinate clauses (by Bech, Kristin); 7. From locative to durative to focalized? The English progressive and 'PROG imperfective drift' (by Killie, Kristin); 8. Gender assignment in Old English (by Vezzosi, Letizia); 9. On the position of the OE quantifier eall and PDE all (by Yanagi, Tomohiro); 10. On the Post-Finite Misagreement phenomenon in Late Middle English (by Ingham, Richard P.); 11. Syntactic dialectal variation in Middle English (by Suarez-Gomez, Cristina); 12. Particles as grammaticalized complex predicates (by Los, Bettelou); 13. Part II. Early and Late Modern English; 14. Adverb-marking patterns in Earlier Modern English coordinate constructions (by Pounder, Amanda V.); 15. 'Tis he, 'tis she, 'tis me, 'tis - I don't know who ... cleft and identificational constructions in 16th to 18th century English plays (by Lange, Claudia); 16. Emotion verbs with to-infinitive complements: From specific to general predication (by Egan, Thomas); 17. Subjective progressives in seventeenth and eighteenth century English (by Kranich, Svenja); 18. Index of subjects & terms
