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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:29:57
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax: Yáñez-Bouza, Moore, van Bergen, Hollmann (eds.)

 


Title: Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax 
Series Title: Studies in English Language  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/categories-constructions-and-change-english-syntax?format=HB 


Editor: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Editor: Emma Moore
Editor: Linda van Bergen
Editor: Willem B. Hollmann

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108321754 Pages: 404 Price: U.S. $ 100.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108419567 Pages: 404 Price: U.S. $ 125.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108419567 Pages: 404 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories,
constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume,
with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging
scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of approaches to grammatical
categories and categorial change, constructions and constructional change, and
comparative and typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on
the analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of the study
of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both theoretically and
empirically, from Old English through to the present day. The result is a body
of research which will add substantially to the current study of the syntax of
the English language, by stimulating further research in the field.

Introduction: analysing English syntax past and present Nuria Yáñez-Bouza,
Emma Moore, Linda van Bergen and Willem B. Hollmann
Part I. Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change:
1. What is special about pronouns? John Payne
2. What for? Bas Aarts
3. Whatever happened to 'whatever'? Dan Mccolm and Graeme Trousdale
4. Are comparative modals converging or diverging in English? Different
answers from the perspectives of grammaticalisation and constructionalisation
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
5. The definite article in Old English: evidence from Ælfric's Grammar Cynthia
L. Allen
Part II. Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change:
6. How patterns spread: the to-infinitival complement as a case of diffusional
change, or 'To-infinitives, and beyond!' Bettelou Los
7. 'Me Liketh/Lotheth' but 'I Loue/Hate': impersonal/non-impersonal boundaries
in old and Middle English Ayumi Miura
8. 'That's luck, if you ask me': the rise of an intersubjective comment clause
Laurel J. Brinton
9. Misreading and language change: a foray into qualitative historical
linguistics Sylvia Adamson
10. The conjunction and in phrasal and clausal structures in the Old Bailey
Corpus Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
Part III. Comparative and Typological Approaches:
11. The role played by analogy in processes of language change: the case of
English have-to compared to Spanish tener-que Olga Fischer and Hella Olbertz
12. Modelling step change: the history of will-verbs in Germanic Kersti
Börjars and Nigel Vincent
13. Possessives world-wide: genitive variation in varieties of English
Benedikt Heller and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
14. American English: no written standard before the twentieth century?
Christian Mair.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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