
English Historical Linguistics 2008 : Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008.. Volume I: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions.
Title:
English Historical Linguistics 2008 : Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008.. Volume I: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions.
Author:
Lenker, Ursula.
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9789027287793
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1 online resource (296 pages)
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2008 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. New paths of investigation: Corpus and constructionist approaches -- 2. Functional and distributional approaches to the history of nominal and verbal constructions -- 2.1 Approaches -- 2.2 Verbal constructions -- 2.3 Modality and (marginal) modals -- 2.4 Developments in the English noun phrase -- 3. Syntactic variation and change through contact -- References -- Part I. Verbal constructions -- "Þonne hate we hine morgensteorra" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Descriptive framework -- 3. Dimensions of complementation -- 4. Analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Tracking and explaining variation and change in the grammar of American English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The adjective accustomed in the first decade of the TIME corpus -- 2.1 Variation in the data and the extraction principle -- 2.2 A semantic distinction -- 3. Accustomed with sentential complements involving subject control in the 1960s -- 4. Concluding observations -- Sources -- References -- Prevent and the battle of the ‑ing clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Explaining the complementation of prevent -- 3. Data -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Data set 1: Variation within individual texts -- 4.2 Data set 2: Variation between different texts -- 5. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Prescription or practice? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Return -- 4.2 Miscarry -- 4.3 Become -- 4.4 Recover -- 4.5 Go -- 4.6 Arrive -- 4.7 Come -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- On the idiomatization of "give + O + to" constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A general survey of the "give + O + to" construction before Middle English -- 3. Analysis of "give + O + to" constructions -- 3.1 Rivalry among the give constructions.
3.2 The "give + O + to" construction -- 4. Some factors contributing to the idiomatization of the "give + O + to" construction -- 4.1 Weakening of Nouniness -- 4.2 Construction and frequency -- 4.3 French influence on the 'give + O + to' construction -- 5. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- The clausal complementation of good in extraposition constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 3. Towards a functional description of the Present-Day English data -- 3.1 Mandative versus propositional complements -- 3.2 The Present-Day English distribution of types of complements -- 3.3 Two patterns with propositional to‑clauses -- 4. Diachronic developments -- 5. Locative and KAK patterns with purely evaluative adjectives -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Part II. Modality and (marginal) modals -- The 'fail to' construction in Late Modern and Present-Day English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The main senses of 'fail to' -- 3. The loss of negation -- 4. Some new sorts of failure -- 5. Is 'fail to' grammaticalizing? -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- Sources -- References -- The interplay of modal verbs and adverbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Etymology -- 3. Framework and the origin of the collocation -- 4. Mæg eaþe 'may easily' in Old English -- 5. Semantics of mæg eaþe 'may easily' in Middle English -- 6. To what extent is it lexicalization? -- 7. Conclusion -- Dictionaries -- References -- Current change in the modal system of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Current change in the modal system of English -- 2.1 Observing current change -- 2.2 Core modal frequency in Present-Day English -- 2.3 Core modals vs. semi-modals -- 2.4 Monosemy of modals -- 3. Corpus and data collection -- 3.1 Current change and the Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English -- 3.2 Data -- 3.3 Semantic coding -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Overall frequencies.
4.2 Root and epistemic modality -- 4.3 Motivating factors -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part III. Developments in the English noun phrase -- Discontinuous quantificational structures in Old English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Movement structures -- 3. Base-generated constructions -- 4. Remnant constructions -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Genitive variation in letters, history writing and sermons in Late Middle and Early Modern English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research -- 3. Factors influencing genitive variation -- 4. Genitive variation in the letter, history and sermon genres -- 4.1 Selection of corpus -- 4.2 Selection of genitive variants -- 4.3 Classification of genitive variants -- 4.4 Corpus analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A: Sources for the genre corpus material -- Part IV. Syntactic variation and change through contact -- On the use of beon and wesan in Old English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Old English double paradigm -- 3. Analysis of the examples -- 3.1 Indicative -- 3.1.1 1st Person Singular -- 3.1.2 2nd person singular -- 3.1.3 3rd person singular -- 3.1.4 Plural -- 3.2 Subjunctive -- 3.3 Imperative and infinitive -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- The reflexes of OE beon as a marker of futurity in early Middle English -- 1. Background -- 1.1. Futurity in Old English -- 1.2 The OE bēon paradigm (Taken from Campbell 1959: 768 (d)) -- 1.3 OE beon and the expression of futurity -- 1.4 The grammarian's view -- 1.5 Old English forms of the verb to be as a marker of futurity -- 2. Late Middle English -- 2.1 Survival of 'be' as a marker of futurity -- 2.2 Late Middle English grammars -- 3. Early Middle English -- 3.1 The grammarian's view -- 3.2 A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (LAEME) -- 4. Prospect -- References -- Stylistic fronting in the history of English -- 1. Introduction.
2. Stylistic fronting in Icelandic -- 3. Stylistic fronting in Old English -- 3.1 Theoretical assumptions -- 3.2 Database and the constructions analyzed -- 3.3 The results -- 4. Stylistic fronting in Middle English -- 4.1 Theoretical assumptions -- 4.2 Database and the constructions analyzed -- 4.3 The results -- 5. Scandinavian influences? -- References -- Appendix: Command lines used for the present study -- Subject and Word index -- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
Abstract:
Stylistic fronting is an operation which moves elements generally occupying the position to the right of the finite verb such as adjectives, past participles, and adverbs to the position immediately preceding it in clauses with a subject gap. The operation is typically observed in Modern Icelandic and in earlier stages of the Scandinavian languages. In this article I will extensively examine Old and Middle English texts and show that word order patterns arguably attributed to stylistic fronting are widely observed both in Old and Middle English and are not confined to texts which are likely to have been heavily influenced by Old Norse speakers. This is contrary to Trips (2002), who attributes the presence of the stylistic fronting patterns in the Ormulum to the Scandinavian invasions. Taking into consideration the wide distribution of relevant examples, I will conclude that the process of stylistic fronting was a genuine property of Old and Middle English.
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