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Recording English, Researching English, Transforming English.
Title:
Recording English, Researching English, Transforming English.
Author:
Sauer, Hans.
ISBN:
9783653036626
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1 online resource (372 pages)
Series:
Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature ; v.41

Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Sounds and spellings -- Homo Loquens, Homo Scribens: On the role of writing in language change, with special reference to English -- The reflection of Pre-Old English sound changes in Pre-Old English runic inscriptions -- Middle English evidence of the elimination of velar fricatives: a prose corpus study -- Part II. Words and phrases -- The chain-mail coat terminology in Old English and the dating of Beowulf -- Old English geweald habban/āgan as a stylistic set phrase, compared with Old High German and Old Saxon cognates -- An etymological analysis of shell nouns -- Secondary agent constructions from a diachronic perspective -- Part III. Conjunctions, clauses, and sentences -- Connectives before Chaucer: conjunctive for and its competition in early Middle English -- A history of because-clauses and the coordination-subordination dichotomy -- The replacement of pe by pat in the history of English -- Impersonal and passive constructions from a viewpoint of functional category emergence -- Part IV. Dialects and their representation -- The southern dialect in Thomas Churchyard's The Contention bettwixte Churchyearde and Camell (1552) -- Scoto-Cumbrian? The representation of dialect in the works of Josiah Relph and Susanna Blamire -- Part V. Scholars, authors and their use of the past -- J.R.R. Tolkien and the historical study of English -- Chinese translations of Beowulf: International Anglo-Saxon studies and modernity -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
This book presents new research results in English historical linguistics. Section I deals with sounds and spellings, e.g. the role of writing in language change, Pre-Old English sound changes and their reflection in runic inscriptions - plus the first complete list of OE runic inscriptions - and with velar fricatives in Middle English. Section II contains studies on words and phrases (e.g. the OE terms for the chain-mail coat), shell nouns, and secondary agent constructions. Section III highlights the developments of because, relative clauses, impersonal and passive constructions. Section IV analyzes the role of dialects in literature (e.g. 16th and 18th centuries). Section V sheds light on the use of early literature by later authors (e.g. J.R.R. Tolkien) and on Chinese translations of Beowulf.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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