How language change manifests itself in the history of English is the primary focus of this volume. It considers the transmission of English though dictionaries and grammars down to the digital means found today. The chapters investigate various issues in language change, for instance what role internal and external factors played throughout history. There are several chapters dedicated to change in different areas and on different levels of language, includinginvestigations of the verbal system, of adverbs, of negation and case variation in English as well as more recent instances of syntactic change. This volume also looks atissues such as style and spelling practices which fed into emergent standard writing, and the complex issue of linguistic prescriptivism, with chapters on linguistic ideology, phonological standards and the codification of English in dictionaries. Itconcludes with a consideration of networks and communities of practice and also of the historical enregisterment of linguistic features.
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An in-depth volume tracking change in the English language and the role which internal and external factors played throughout history.
General editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction Joan C. Beal
and Raymond Hickey; Part I. The Transmission of English:
1. Dictionaries in
the history of English John Considine;
2. Writing grammars for English Ingrid
TiekenBoon van Ostade;
3. Speech representation in the history of English
Peter Grund;
4. The history of English in the digital age Caroline Tagg and
Melanie Evans;
5. Internet resources for the history of English Ayumi Miura;
Part II. Tracking Change in the History of English:
6. Spelling practices and
emergent standard writing Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre and Juan Manuel
Hernández Campoy;
7. Phonological change Gjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden;
8.
Applying historical phonology David Crystal;
9. The emerging phonological
standard Lynda Mugglestone;
10. The history of R in English Raymond Hickey;
11. The system of clausal complementation Hendrik de Smet;
12. Tense and
aspect in the history of English Teresa Fanego;
13. Development in the
passive construction Peter Petré;
14. Adverbs in the history of English
Ursula Lenker;
15. The story of English negation Gabriella Mazzon;
16. Dative
and genitive variability in the history of English Anette Rosenbach;
17.
Relativisation Cristina Suárez Gómez;
18. Recent grammatical change in
English Jill Bowie and Bas Aarts;
19. The history of English registers Nuria
Yáñez Bouza and Javier Perez Guerra;
20. The history of semantic theory Susan
Fitzmaurice and Seth Mehl;
21. The development of pragmatic markers Laurel
Brinton; Part III. Ideology, Society and the History of English:
22. The
ideology of standard English Lesley Milroy;
23. The discourse of
prescriptivism Don Chapman;
24. English dictionaries from the
Eighteenthcentury onwards Charlotte Brewer;
25. Networks, coalitions and
language change Marina Dossena;
26. Communities of practice in the history of
English Joanna Kopaczyk and Andreas Jucker;
27. Historical enregisterment
Joan Beal and Paul Cooper.
Joan C. Beal is Emeritus Professor of English Language, University of Sheffield. She is an editor of De Gruyter Dialects of English series, co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism (2003), author of English in Modern Times 17001945 (2004), and co-author of The English Language (third edition, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
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