Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985

Abstract

1. Preface 2. List of participants 3. Proceedings of the 4th ICEHL 4. 'I deny that I'm incapable of working all night': Divergence of negative structures in British and Indian English (by Aitchison, Jean) 5. Relative Which in late 18th-century usage: the Clift family correspondence (by Austin, Frances O.) 6. Lengthening of a in Tyneside English (by Beal, Joan C.) 7. The origins of periphrastic Do: Ellegard and Visser reconsidered (by Denison, David) 8. Synchronic variation and linguistic change: Evidence from british english dialects (by Ihalainen, Ossi) 9. Old English infinitival complements and West-Germanic V-raising (by Kemenade, Ans M.C. van) 10. The simplification of the Old English strong nominal paradigms (by Keyser, Samuel Jay) 11. Verb and particle combinations in old and middle English (by Koopman, Willem F.) 12. The impersonal verb in context: old English (by Lagerquist, Linnea M.) 13. The south African Chain-shift: order out of chaos? (by Lass, Roger) 14. Of Rhyme and reason: some foot-governed quantity changes in English (by Minkova, Donka) 15. Lexical variation of early modern English exclusive adverbs: Style switching or a change in progress? (by Nevalainen, Terttu) 16. Some remarks on complementation in old English (by Nagucka, Ruta) 17. The interpretation and development of form alternations conditioned across word boundaries: The case of Wife's, Wives and Wives' (by Plank, Frans) 18. A note on the voicing of initial fricatives in middle English (by Poussa, Patricia) 19. Expression of exclusiveness in old English and the development of the adverb only (by Rissanen, Matti) 20. The great Scandinavian belt (by Samuels, M.L.) 21. Discourse markers in early modern English (by Stein, Dieter) 22. Assessment of alternative explanations of the middle English phenomenon of high vowel lowering when lengthened in the open syllable (by Stockwell, Robert P.) 23. Preliminaries to the linguistic analysis of old Engllish glosses and glossaries (by Toon, Thomas E.) 24. The role of INFL in word order change (by Travis, Lisa deMena)