The Handbook Of The History Of English Ans Van Kemenade Bettelou Los by Ans Van Kemenade, Bettelou Los 9780470757048, 9780631233442, 0470757043, 063123344X instant download after payment.

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language.

• organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems
  
• surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology
  
• offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research

Content:
Chapter 1 Change for the Better? Optimality Theory versus History (pages 2–23): April McMahon
Chapter 2 Cuing a New Grammar (pages 24–44): David W. Lightfoot
Chapter 3 Variation and the Interpretation of Change in Periphrastic Do (pages 45–67): Anthony Warner
Chapter 4 Evolutionary Models and Functional?Typological Theories of Language Change (pages 68–91): William Croft
Chapter 5 Old and Middle English Prosody (pages 94–124): Donka Minkova
Chapter 6 Prosodic Preferences: From Old English to Early Modern English (pages 125–150): Paula Fikkert, Elan B. Dresher and Aditi Lahiri
Chapter 7 Typological Changes in Derivational Morphology (pages 151–176): Dieter Kastovsky
Chapter 8 Competition in English Word Formation (pages 177–198): Laurie Bauer
Chapter 9 Case Syncretism and Word Order Change (pages 200–223): Cynthia L. Allen
Chapter 10 Discourse Adverbs and Clausal Syntax in Old and Middle English (pages 224–248): Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los
Chapter 11 The Loss of OV Order in the History of English (pages 249–278): Susan Pintzuk and Ann Taylor
Chapter 12 Category Change and Gradience in the Determiner System (pages 279–304): David Denison
Chapter 13 Pathways in the Development of Pragmatic Markers in English (pages 306–334): Laurel Brinton
Chapter 14 The Semantic Development of Scalar Focus Modifiers (pages 335–359): Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Chapter 15 Information Structure and Word Order Change: The Passive as an Information?rearranging Strategy in the History of English (pages 360–391): Elena Seoane
Chapter 16 Old English Dialectology (pages 394–416): Richard Hogg
Chapter 17 Early Middle English Dialectology: Problems and Prospects (pages 417–451): Margaret Laing and Roger Lass
Chapter 18 How English Became African American English (pages 452–476): Shana Poplack
Chapter 19 Historical Change in Synchronic Perspective: The Legacy of British Dialects (pages 477–506): Sali A. Tagliamonte
Chapter 20 The Making of Hiberno?English and Other “Celtic Englishes” (pages 507–536): Markku Filppula
Chapter 21 Eighteenth?century Prescriptivism and the Norm of Correctness (pages 538–557): Ingrid Tieken?Boon van Ostade
Chapter 22 Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change (pages 558–588): Terttu Nevalainen
Chapter 23 Global English: From Island Tongue to World Language (pages 589–608): Suzanne Romaine