The Handbook of the History of English

Abstract

Editors' Introduction. Notes on Contributors. Part I: Approaches and issues. 1. Change for the Better? Optimality Theory versus History: April McMahon (University of Sheffield). 2. Cueing a New Grammar: David Lightfoot (Georgetown University). 3. Variation and the Interpretation of Change in periphrastic DO: Anthony Warner (University of York). 4. Evolutionary Models and Functional-Typological Theories of Language Change: William Croft (University of New Mexico). Part II: Words: derivation and prosody. 5. Old and Middle English Prosody: Donka Minkova (UCLA). 6. Prosodic Preferences: From Old English to Early Modern English: Paula Fikkert (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Elan Dresher (University of Toronto, Canada) and Aditi Lahiri (University of Konstanz, Germany). 7. Typological Changes in Derivational Morphology: Dieter Kastovsky (University of Vienna). 8. Competition in English Word Formation: Laurie Bauer (Victoria University of Wellington). Part III: Inflectional morphology and syntax. 9. Case Syncretism and Word Order Change: Cynthia Allen (Australian National University). 10. Discourse Adverbs and Clausal Syntax in Old and Middle English: Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Bettelou Los (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). 11. The loss of OV Order in the History of English: Susan Pintzuk and Ann Taylor (both University of York). 12. Category Change and Gradience in the Determiner System: David Denison (University of Manchester). Part IV: Pragmatics. 13. Pathways in the development of pragmatic markers in English: Laurel Brinton (University of British Columbia). 14. The Semantic Development of Scalar Focus Modifiers: Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University). 15. Information Structure and Word Order Change: The Passive as an Information Rearranging Strategy in the History of English: Elena Seoane (University of Santiago de Compostela). Part V: Pre- and postcolonial varieties. 16. Old English Dialectology: Richard Hogg (University of Manchester). 17. Early Middle English Dialectology: Problems and Prospects: Margaret Laing (University of Edinburgh) and Roger Lass (University of Cape Town). 18. How English became African American English: Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa). 19. Historical Change in Synchronic Perspective: The Legacy of British Dialects: Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto). 20. The making of Hiberno-English and other 'Celtic Englishes': Markku Filppula (University of Joensuu). Part VI: Standardisation and globalization. 21. Eighteenth-century Prescriptivism and the Norm of Correctness: Ingrid Tieken - Boon van Ostade (University of Leiden). 22. Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change: Terttu Nevalainen (University of Helsinki). 23. Global English: From Island Tongue to World Language: Suzanne Romaine (University of Oxford). Appendix: Useful Corpora for Research in English Historical Linguistics. Index.