Studies in the History of the English LAnguage II: Unfolding Conversations, edited by Anne Curzan & Kimberly Emmons (2004)

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TOPICS IN ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
Series Editors: Elizabeth Closs Traugott & Bernd Kortmann

STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE II
Unfolding Conversations

Edited by Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons

2004. xii, 500 pages. Cloth.
EURO 94.00 / sFr 150.00 / approx. US$ 113.00
ISBN 3-11-018097-9
(Topics in English Linguistics 45)

Studies in the History of the English Language II contains selected papers from
 the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. In
 the volume, scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of
 research topics in historical English linguistics, including new
 theories/methods such as Optimality Theory and corpus linguistics, and
 traditional fields such as phonology and syntax.

In each of the four sections - Philology and linguistics; Corpus- and text-based
 studies; Constraint-based studies; Dialectology - a key article provides the
 focal point for a discussion between leading scholars, who respond directly to
 each other's arguments within the volume. In Section 1, Donka Minkova and
 Lesley Milroy explore the possibilities of historical sociolinguistics as part
 of a discussion of the distinction between philology and linguistics. In
 Section 2, Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Erik Smitterberg provide new research
 findings on the history and usage of progressive constructions. In Section 3,
 Geoffrey Russom and Robert D. Fulk reanalyze the development of Middle English
 alliterative meter. In Section 4, Michael Montgomery, Connie Eble, and Guy
 Bailey interpret new historical evidence of the pen/pin merger in Southern
 American English. The remaining articles address equally salient problems and
 possibilities within the field of historical English linguistics.

The volume spans topics and time periods from Proto-Germanic sound change to
 twenty-first century dialect variation, and methodologies from painstaking
 philological work with written texts to high-speed data gathering in
 computerized corpora. As a whole, the volume captures an ongoing conversation
 at the heart of historical English linguistics: the question of evidence and
 historical reconstruction.

Anne Curzan is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
 USA. Kimberly Emmons is Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University,
 Cleveland, USA.

FROM THE CONTENTS:

Section 1: Linguistics and philology

Introduction: Linguistics and philology
Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons

Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w]
Donka Minkova

An essay in historical sociolinguistics?: On Donka Minkova's "Philology,
 linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w]"
Lesley Milroy

A brief response
Donka Minkova

Why we should not believe in short diphthongs
David L. White

Extended forms (Streckformen) in English
Anatoly Liberman

Linguistic change in words one owns: How trademarks become "generic"
Ronald R. Butters and Jennifer Westerhaus

Section 2: Corpus- and text-based studies

Introduction: Corpus- and text-based studies
Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons

The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early
 eighteenth-century English network
Susan M. Fitzmaurice

Investigating the expressive progressive: On Susan Fitzmaurice's "The meanings
 and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English
 network"
Erik Smitterberg

A brief response Susan M. Fitzmaurice

Modal use across registers and time
Douglas Biber

The need for good texts: The case of Henry Machyn's Day Book, 1550-1563 Richard
 W. Bailey

The perils of firsts: Dating Rawlinson MS Poet. 108 and tracing the development
 of monolingual English lexicons
Ian Lancashire

Section 3: Constraint-based studies

Introduction: Constraint-based studies
Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons

The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter
Geoffrey Russom

Old English poetry and the alliterative revival: On Geoffrey Russom's "The
 evolution of Middle English alliterative meter"
Robert D. Fulk

A brief response
Geoffrey Russom

A central metrical prototype for English iambic tetrameter verse: Evidence from
 Chaucer's octosyllabic lines
Xingzhong Li

Early English clause structure change in a stochastic optimality theory setting
 Brady Z. Clark

The role of perceptual contrast in Verner's
Law Olga Petrova

Section 4: Dialectology

Introduction: Dialectology
Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons

Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English
 Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble

Digging up the roots of Southern American English: On Michael Montgomery and
 Connie Eble's "Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern
 American English"
Guy Bailey

A brief response
Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble

Vowel merger in west central Indiana: A naughty, knotty problem
Betty S. Phillips

The spread of negative contraction in early English Richard
M. Hogg

Of further interest

Studies in the History of the English
Language
A Millennial Perspective
Edited by Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell
2002. vi, 496 pages. Cloth. EURO 98.00 / sFr 157.00 /
approx. US$ 118.00  ISBN 3-11-017368-9 (TiEL 39)
2003. vi, 496 pages. Paperback. EURO 36.95 / sFr 59.00 /
approx. US$ 44.00  ISBN 3-11-017591-6

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