28.2674, Books: Late Modern English Syntax: Hundt (ed.)
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From: Jack Groutage [jgroutage at cambridge.org]
Subject: Late Modern English Syntax: Hundt (ed.)
Title: Late Modern English Syntax
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/late-modern-english-syntax
Editor: Marianne Hundt
Paperback: ISBN: 9781108403870 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 34.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781108403870 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781108403870 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 29.89
Abstract:
The Late Modern period is the first in the history of English for which an
unprecedented wealth of textual material exists. Using increasingly
sophisticated databases, the contributions in this volume explore grammatical
usage from the period, specifically morphological and syntactic change, in a
broad context. Some chapters explore the socio-historical background of the
period while others provide information on prescriptivism, newspaper language,
language contact, and regional variation in British and American English.
Internal processes of change are discussed against grammaticalisation theory
and construction grammar and the rich body of textual evidence is used to draw
inferences on the precise nature of historical change. Exposing readers to a
wealth of data that informs the description of a broad range of syntactic
phenomena, this book is ideal for graduate students and researchers interested
in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and language development.
1. Introduction. Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and
socio-historical context Marianne Hundt
Part I. Changes in the VP:
2. The decline of the BE-perfect, linguistic relativity, and grammar writing
in the nineteenth century Lieselotte Anderwald
3. Let's not, let's don't and don't let's in British and American English
Anita Auer
4. Do we got a difference? Divergent developments of semi-auxiliary (have) got
(to) in British and American English Christian Mair
5. From contraction to construction? The recent life of 'll Nadja Nesselhauf
6. Books that sell - mediopassives and the modification 'constraint' Marianne
Hundt
Part II. Changes in the NP:
7. Beyond mere syntactic change: a micro-analytical study of various and
numerous Tine Breban
8. Culturally conditioned language change? A multivariate analysis of genitive
constructions in ARCHER Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Anette Rosenbach, Joan Bresnan
and Christoph Wolk
Part III. Changes in Complementation Patterns:
9. On the changing status of that-clauses Günter Rohdenburg
10. Variability in verb complementation in Late Modern English: finite vs
non-finite patterns Hubert Cuyckens, Frauke D'Hoedt and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Part IV. Category Change:
11. Opposite developments in composite predicate constructions: the case of
take advantage of and make use of Eva Berlage
12. Constrained confusion: the gerund/participle distinction in Late Modern
English Hendrik De Smet
13. 'You are a bit of a sneak': exploring a degree modifier in the Old Bailey
Corpus Claudia Claridge and Merja Kytö
Part V. The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface:
14. If you choose/like/prefer/want/wish: the origin of metalinguistic and
politeness functions Laurel J. Brinton
15. Epistemic parentheticals with seem: Late Modern English in focus María
José López-Couso and Belén Méndez-Naya
Part VI. Text-Type Related Change:
16. Syntactic stability and change in nineteenth-century newspaper language
Erik Smitterberg
Part VII. Language Contact and Syntactic Change:
17. '(W)ell are you not got over thinking about going to ireland yet': the
BE-perfect in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish English Kevin
McCafferty.
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng)
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