English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected Papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7-11 September 2000Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Javier Pérez-Guerra This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the fields of English historical syntax and morphology. Some of the issues discussed are the emergence of viewpoint adverbials in English and German, changes in noun phrase structure from 1650 to the present, the development of the progressive in Scots, the passivization of composite predicates, the loss of V2 and its effects on the information structure of English, the acquisition of modal syntax and semantics by the English verb WANT, or the use of temporal adverbs as attributive adjectives in the Early Modern period. Many of the articles tackle questions of change through the use of methodological tools like computerized corpora. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, grammaticalization theory, Dik's model of functional grammar, construction grammar and Government & Binding Theory. |
Contents
Is it stylewise or otherwise wise to use wise? Domain adverbials | 4 |
On the development of a friend of mine | 23 |
Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase | 43 |
On the late | 67 |
The derivation of ornative locative ablative privative | 99 |
A path to volitional modality | 131 |
the history of English wise | 157 |
Syntactic change | 181 |
The progressive in Older Scots | 203 |
Detransitivization in the history of English from a semantic | 231 |
The Principle of Rhythmic Alternation | 255 |
Name index | 283 |
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a-prefix adverbs agent nouns Akimoto Amsterdam & Philadelphia analysis attested attributive adjectives Biber co-referential Cognitive Linguistics complex definition degrammaticalization derivational deverbal nouns diachronic Dieter discourse double genitive construction Early Modern English English Language ergative examples Fanego fiction formations forms frequent function Gaaf Geoffrey Leech grammatical grammaticalization HCOS Historical Linguistics Hopper idiomatization indefinite infinitive inner passive instances intransitive Jespersen John Benjamins Kastovsky Language late Lehmann lexeme lexical items Marchand Mary of Lorraine meaning medical prose Middle English modal modifiers morpheme morphological Mouton de Gruyter n-stems nominal noun phrase Old English outer passive Oxford University Press participle pattern postmodifiers predicate prefix premodifiers prepositional phrases Present-day English privative productive pronoun Quirk Ramat relative clauses Santiago de Compostela Section semantic structure suffix suggests syntactic Syntax temporal adverbs texts transitive verbs Traugott unmarked unstressed syllable V+NP+P variants verbal WANT wise word-formation words written registers zero-derivation