Generative Theory and Corpus Studies

A Dialogue from 10 ICEHL

Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, David Denison, Richard M. Hogg, C. B. McCully, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, David Denison, Richard M. Hogg, C. B. McCully

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110166873
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110814699
• Topic: Filología
• Subtopic: Lingüística

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Table of contents

• 1. Structure
• 1.1. Continuity versus discontinuity
• Obsolescence and sudden death in syntax: The decline of verb-final order in early Middle English
• On the history of relative that
• The complementation of verbs of appearance by adverbs
• On the use of current intuition as a bias in historical linguistics: The case of the LOOK + -ly construction in English
• The indefinite pronoun man: “nominal“ or “pronominal”?
• 1.2. Form and function
• Coordinate deletion, directionality and underlying structure in Old English
• The position of the adjective in Old English
• On the history of the s-genitive
• The passive as an object foregrounding device in early Modern English
• Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation
• 2. Text types
• Variation and change: Text types and the modelling of syntactic change
• The progressive form and genre variation during the nineteenth century
• The conjunction and in early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts
• 3. Sociolinguistics and dialectology
• Processes of supralocalisation and the rise of Standard English in the early Modern period
• The rise and fall of periphrastic DO in early Modern English, or “Howe the Scots will declare themselv ’s”
• Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century
• Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots
• Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English
• Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography
• 4. Phonology
• HappY-tensing: A recent innovation?
• Syllable ONSET in the history of English
• Name index
• Subject index