‘Ye whom the charms of grammar please’
Studies in English Language History in Honour of Leiv Egil Breivik
Summary
The essays are all empirical studies, based on a wide range of corpora (both historical and contemporary) and applying theoretical approaches informed by Systemic-Functional Grammar, grammaticalization theory, dependency grammar, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and corpus linguistic methods. Issues of methodology, statistics and corpus construction and annotation are also addressed in several contributions.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the editors
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Kevin McCafferty, Kari E. Haugland and Kristian A.Rusten: Preface: Charms of grammar/Source of all glamour
- Part One: Existential there and other expletives
- Kari E. Haugland: Þa rinde hit & þær comun flod & bleowun windas: On expletives and word order in Old English
- Gard B. Jenset: In search of the S (curve) in there
- María José López-Couso and Susana Formoso-Rodríguez: There follows + that-clause: A case of syntactic blend?
- Part Two: Adverbials
- Kristin Killie: The development of colour adverbs in Norwegian and English: Similar paths, different paths
- Toril Swan: Hopefully: The evolution of a sentence adverbial
- Part Three: Grammar
- Gisle Andersen: The double copula revisited
- Bjørg Bækken: The noun phrase as a style marker in seventeenth-century English
- Dagmar Haumann: On the ascent and decline of the passive tough-infinitive
- Kevin McCafferty: I think that I will be after making love to one of them: A revised account of Irish English be after V-ing and its Irish source
- Ana Elina Martínez-Insua: Language, medicine and choice: A Systemic-Functional study of Early Modern English medical writing
- Kristian A. Rusten: Null referential subjects from Old to Early Modern English
- Part Four: Information structure and pragmatics
- Kristin Bech: Non-specificity and genericity in information structure annotation
- Øystein Heggelund:Information structure as an independent word ordering factor in Old and Middle English
- Part Five: Discourse
- Sarah Hoem Iversen: Do you understand this, my little pupil?: Children’s dictionaries, pedagogy and constructions of childhood in the nineteenth century
- Merja Stenroos: Fugitive voices: Personal involvement in Middle English letters of defence
- Anna-Brita Stenström: The pragmatic marker come on in teenage talk
- Leiv Egil Breivik: A bibliography
- Notes on contributors
- Index
- Series index
- Plates
Studies in Historical Linguistics
Vol. 4
Edited by
Dr Graeme Davis, Karl A. Bernhardt & Dr Mark Garner
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