Syntax, Style and Grammatical Norms: English from 1500-2000

by Maurizio Gotti (Editor), Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Editor), Dieter Kastovsky (Editor), Nikolaus Ritt (Editor)

Overview

The volume features a selection of new work presented at the 2004 meeting of the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL). Main conference themes reflected in this volume are: the maturation and broadening of historical corpus linguistics, a new interest in English for Specific Purposes as a diachronic phenomenon, and the role of grammar writing in the process of change. A further thematic strand of this book is the significance of functional aspects in the development of grammar and discourse, especially in domains beyond phonology and morphology. Several contributions focus on the operation of socio-pragmatic and functional factors in historically identifiable social networks, especially in the 18^th century. Apart from that there is also a strong emphasis on developments in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783039111817
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	08/09/2006
Series:	Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication , #39
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.66(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Editors: Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Dieter Kastovsky, Nikolaus Ritt and Herbert Schendl teach at the Department of English at the University of Vienna and have published widely in different areas of English Historical Linguistics.

Table of Contents

Contents: Minoji Akimoto: On the Decline of after and forth in Verb Phrases – Anita Auer: Precept and Practice: The Influence of Prescriptivism on the English Subjunctive – Joan C. Beal/Anthony P. Grant: «Make do and mend»: An Online Investigation into Processes of Neologisation and the Dearth of Borrowing in Newer English Wartime Vocabulary – Claudia Claridge: ‘With the most superlative felicitee’: Functions of the Superlative in 19^th-Century English – Thomas Egan: Pronominal and Full Nominal Subjects in Expanding Constructions – Larisa Oldireva Gustafsson: Irregular Verbs in 17^th- and 18^th-Century English Grammars: A Maze of Classifications – Minna Palander-Collin/Minna Nevala: Reporting in 18^th-Century Letters of Hester Piozzi – Günter Rohdenburg: The Role of Functional Constraints in the Evolution of the English Complementation System – Anni Sairio: Progressives in the Letters of Elizabeth Montagu and her Circle in 1738-1778 – Elena Seoane: Changing Styles: On the Recent Evolution of Scientific British and American English – Stefan Thim: Phrasal Verbs in Late Middle and Early Modern English: Combinations with back, down, forth, out, and up – Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: «Disrespectful and too familiar»? Abbreviations as an Index of Politeness in 18^th-Century Letters.

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