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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

Edited by
Merja Kytö  and
Päivi Pahta
Merja Kytö
Affiliation:
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Päivi Pahta
Affiliation:
University of Tampere, Finland

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The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics , pp. v - vi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

Contents

  1. List of figures

  2. List of maps

  3. List of tables

  4. List of contributors

  5. Acknowledgements

  6. Abbreviations

  7. Introduction

    Merja Kytö and Päivi Pahta

  8. Part I Framework

    1. Section 1 Theories and methodologies

      1. 1 The variationist approach

        Suzanne Romaine

      2. 2 Quantitative approaches to diachronic corpus linguistics

        Martin Hilpert and Stefan Th. Gries

      3. 3 English historical pragmatics

        Gabriella Mazzon

      4. 4 Construction grammar

        Graeme Trousdale

      5. 5 Generative frameworks and approaches

        Elly van Gelderen

      6. 6 Philological methods

        Robert D. Fulk

    2. Section 2 Evidence: material and data

      1. 7 Manuscripts and early printed books

        Simon Horobin

      2. 8 Corpora and online resources in English historical linguistics

        María José López-Couso

      3. 9 Audio recordings

        Christian Mair

      4. 10 Early and Late Modern English grammars as evidence in English historical linguistics

        Nuria Yáñez-Bouza

      5. 11 Extracting data from historical material

        Erik Smitterberg

  9. Part II Analyses

    1. Section 3 Perspectives on processes of change

      1. 12 Phonological change in English

        Raymond Hickey

      2. 13 Change in the English lexicon

        Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan

      3. 14 Morphosyntactic change

        Olga Fischer

      4. 15 Semantic and pragmatic change

        Susan M. Fitzmaurice

      5. 16 Genre dynamics in the history of English

        Irma Taavitsainen

      6. 17 Processes of sociolinguistic and sociopragmatic change

        Minna Nevala

      7. 18 Standardization

        Joan C. Beal

      8. 19 Contact-related processes of change in the early history of English

        Peter Trudgill

      9. 20 Global spread of English: processes of change

        Marianne Hundt

    2. Section 4 Highlighting the research process

      1. 21 Variationist versus text-linguistic approaches to grammatical change in English: nominal modifiers of head nouns

        Douglas Biber, with Jesse Egbert, Bethany Gray, Rahel Oppliger, and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

      2. 22 Identifying micro-changes in a particular linguistic change-type: the case of subjectification

        Elizabeth Closs Traugott

      3. 23 The OED and HTOED as tools in practical research: a test case examining the impact of loanwords on areas of the core lexicon

        Philip Durkin

      4. 24 The individuality of English in the multilingual Middle Ages

        Tim William Machan

      5. 25 Ambisyllabicity in English: present and past

        Donka Minkova and Kie Ross Zuraw

      6. 26 Typological change: investigating loss of inflection in early English

        Cynthia Allen

      7. 27 Third-person present singular verb inflection in Early Modern English: new evidence from speech-related texts

        Terry Walker

      8. 28 Visual pragmatics: speech presentation and Middle English manuscripts

        Colette Moore

  10. Bibliography

  11. Subject index

  12. Name index

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  • Contents
  • Edited by Merja Kytö, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden, Päivi Pahta, University of Tampere, Finland
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics
  • Online publication: 05 May 2016
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  • Online publication: 05 May 2016
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  • Contents
  • Edited by Merja Kytö, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden, Päivi Pahta, University of Tampere, Finland
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics
  • Online publication: 05 May 2016
Available formats
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