series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Mouton

Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

Herausgegeben von: Susan M. Fitzmaurice und Bernd Kortmann

ISSN: 1434-3452

Übersicht
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The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

For further publications in English linguistics see also our Dialects of English book series.

To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

Fachgebiete

book: Tri-Constituent Compounds

Buch 2023

Tri-Constituent Compounds

A Usage-Based Account of Complex Nominal Compounding

Elisabeth Huber

Band 114 in dieser Reihe

This book provides a usage-based perspective to the study of multi-word compounding, analyzing the structural, functional and cognitive aspects of tripartite compounds (e.g. day care center, football game, hotel bedroom). It highlights the heterogeneity of these word-formation products, but also carves out surprising differences to two-word compounds. In order to reveal the step from two-word compounding to multi-word compounding, the book explains why only some compounds are used productively for the formation of more complex compounds. Building on the idea of entrenchment, it provides a theoretical account that allows understanding speakers’ ability to produce multi-word compounds.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111081694
ISBN:: 9783111081694
ISBN:: 9783111080758
ISBN:: 9783111082110
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Specificational and Predicative Clauses

Buch 2022

Specificational and Predicative Clauses

A Functional-Cognitive Account

Wout Van Praet

Band 112 in dieser Reihe

In studies of copular clauses, the relation between specificational and predicative clauses has been a contentious issue. While most studies agree on the analysis of predicative clauses, specificational clauses have sparked much debate. A key concern is how specificational clauses with indefinite ‘variable’ NP (e.g. "A popular holiday go-to is Rome") compare to, and contrast with, other copular clauses, especially specificational clauses with definite ‘variable’ NP (e.g. "The main can’t-miss in Italy is Rome") and predicative clauses with indefinite predicate nominative (e.g. "Rome is a great city"). This book addresses this concern by offering a functional-structural analysis of these three clause types in terms of their common characteristics and distinguishing features. The analysis of the clauses’ structure and meaning is substantiated by evidence from corpus research which probes into various aspects of their actual usage (e.g. information structure and prosody, discourse-embedding). In doing so, the book offers an empirical basis for testing existing assumptions about predicative and specificational clauses, while also providing new insights into the interaction between the grammar and discourse usage of copular clauses.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110771992
ISBN:: 9783110771992
ISBN:: 9783110771909
ISBN:: 9783110772050
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Gespräch, Diskurs
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Funktionale grammatische Theorien
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Many Faces of English -ing

Buch 2022

The Many Faces of English -ing

Xin Sennrich

Band 111 in dieser Reihe

The book offers a new angle on long-standing questions about the categorial status of English participles and gerunds. The book makes a major point: participles are not verb forms which behave like adjectives, but actually are adjectives, linked with verbs via derivation. It argues that observed differences between participles and adjectives, which in the past have prompted linguists to draw a category distinction between them, are in reality due to the non-prototypical semantics of participles – a feature also found in other types of adjectives, with strikingly identical effects. This analysis then accounts for the word formation of adjectives such as boring, tired, drunk, which has always been mysterious. The book investigates the consequences of this analysis for our understanding of gerunds and V-ing-N compounds. With its comprehensive study of -ing forms, the book calls into question a number of widely-held assumptions – regarding the distinction between derivation and inflection, and the role of semantics in syntactic and morphological analysis. This book is of great interest to researchers and students in linguistics interested in morphology, syntax, semantics, lexical categorisation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110764482
ISBN:: 9783110764482
ISBN:: 9783110764550
ISBN:: 9783110764383
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Models of Modals

Buch 2023

Models of Modals

From Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics to Machine Learning

Ilse Depraetere, Bert Cappelle, Martin Hilpert, Ludovic De Cuypere, Mathieu Dehouck, Pascal Denis, Susanne Flach, Natalia Grabar, Cyril Grandin, Thierry Hamon, Clemens Hufeld, Benoît Leclercq, Hans-Jörg Schmid

Band 110 in dieser Reihe

Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must, have to, should, ought to, need, need to) and the possibility side (can, may, could, might, be able to). They therefore constitute excellent test ground to apply and compare different methodologies that can lay bare the factors that drive the speaker’s choice of modal verb. This book is not merely concerned with a purely grammatical description of the use of modal verbs, but aims at advancing our understanding of lexical and grammatical units in general and of linguistic methodologies to explore these. It thus involves a genuine effort to compare, assess and combine a variety of approaches. It complements the leading descriptive qualitative work on modal verbs by testing a diverse range of quantitative methods, while not ignoring qualitative issues pertaining to the semantics-pragmatics interface. Starting from a critical assessment of what constitutes the meaning of modal verbs, different types of empirical studies (usage-based, data-driven and experimental), drawing considerably on the same data sets, shows how method triangulation can contribute to an enhanced understanding. Due attention is also given to individual variation as well as the degree to which modals can predict L2 proficiency level.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110734157
ISBN:: 9783110734157
ISBN:: 9783110734256
ISBN:: 9783110738612
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: English on Croker Island

Buch 2021

English on Croker Island

The Synchronic and Diachronic Dynamics of Contact and Variation

Robert Mailhammer

Band 109 in dieser Reihe

Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree of variation found across the continent. This book presents the first description of English spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia, in terms of its history, linguistic features and connections to local Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island shows an extremely high degree of intra- and inter-speaker variation and embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact situation, both of which challenge existing models of variation and language contact. These results have significant ramifications for how variation is modelled, for our understanding of how postcolonial Englishes develop, as well as for the dynamics of complex contact situations. The book also puts English on Croker Island into a typological context of World Englishes by establishing a profile according to the parameters of the World Atlas of Varieties of English (WAVE). It is of interest to academics interested in Australian Aboriginal English, language contact, World Englishes and Australian Aboriginal languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110707854
ISBN:: 9783110707854
ISBN:: 9783110707755
ISBN:: 9783110707946
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Australische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Nicht-Pama-Nyungan-Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Pidgin und kreolische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in the History of the English Language VIII

Buch 2020

Studies in the History of the English Language VIII

Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in the History of English

Peter J. Grund, Megan E. Hartman

Band 108 in dieser Reihe

This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The concept of boundaries is variously defined within linguistics depending on the theoretical framework, from formal and theoretical perspectives to specific fields and more empirical, physical, and perceptual angles. The contributions to this volume do not take one particular theoretical or methodological approach but, instead, explore how examining various types of boundaries—linguistic, conceptual, analytical, generic, physical—helps us illuminate and account for historical use, variation, and change in English. In their exploration of various topics in the history of English, contributions ask a range of questions: what does it mean to set up boundaries between time periods? When do language varieties have distinct boundaries and when do they overlap? Where do language users draw up clausal, constructional, semantic, phonetic/phonological boundaries? Thus, the chapters explore not only how boundaries illustrate synchronic and diachronic features in the history of the English language but also what we can discover by questioning perceived or actual boundaries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643282
ISBN:: 9783110643282
ISBN:: 9783110639858
ISBN:: 9783110627251
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Multilingual Origins of Standard English

Buch 2020

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English

Laura Wright

Band 107 in dieser Reihe

Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type, dating after 1435 and labelled ‘Chancery Standard’, provided the mechanism by which this supposedly Midlands variety spread out from London. This set of explanations is challenged by taking a multilingual perspective, examining Anglo-Norman French, Medieval Latin and mixed-language contexts as well as monolingual English ones. By analysing local and legal documents, mercantile accounts, personal letters and journals, medical and religious prose, multiply-copied works, and the output of individual scribes, standardisation is shown to have been preceded by supralocalisation rather than imposed top-down as a single entity by governmental authority. Linguistic features examined include syntax, morphology, vocabulary, spelling, letter-graphs, abbreviations and suspensions, social context and discourse norms, pragmatics, registers, text-types, communities of practice social networks, and the multilingual backdrop, which was influenced by shifting socioeconomic trends.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110687545
ISBN:: 9783110687545
ISBN:: 9783110687576
ISBN:: 9783110687514
ISBN:: 9783110995107
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Linguistic Communities and Migratory Processes

Buch 2020

Linguistic Communities and Migratory Processes

Newcomers Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation in Northern Ireland

Karen P. Corrigan

Band 106 in dieser Reihe

This inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with the ‘super-diversifying’ of language and society engendered by recent and historical migrations. It analyses novel data from interviews with allochthonous and autochthonous groups of monolingual and plurilingual youngsters living in Northern Ireland. A key aim is to test models within second language acquisition and language variation and change research. Another goal is to examine the extent to which distinctive migratory trends generated changes in the language ecologies of communities on the island of Ireland as well as globally in regions where the Irish settled intensively from the 1700s. The book also compares contemporary migratory experiences with historical records to further our understanding of the dynamics of identification through language across time. The first-ever book devoted to all aspects of the sociolinguistics of globalization and migration in Northern Ireland will be welcomed by scholars interested in the consequences for ethnolinguistic vitality of large-scale population movements. It could not be more timely given the fact that 2.5 million sought asylum in Europe alone during 2016, greatly enhancing its diversity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110614190
ISBN:: 9783110614190
ISBN:: 9783110611472
ISBN:: 9783110611571
ISBN:: 9783110991567
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Message and Medium

Buch 2020

Message and Medium

English Language Practices Across Old and New Media

Caroline Tagg, Mel Evans

Band 105 in dieser Reihe

Studies of digital communication technologies often focus on the apparently unique set of multimodal resources afforded to users and the development of innovative linguistic strategies for performing mediatised identities and maintaining online social networks.
This edited volume interrogates the novelty of such practices by establishing a transhistorical approach to the study of digital communication. The transhistorical approach explores language practices as lived experiences grounded in historical contexts, and aims to identify those elements of human behaviour that transcend historical boundaries, looking beyond specific developments in communication technologies to understand the enduring motivations and social concerns that drive human communication.
The volume reveals long-term patterns in the indexical functions of seemingly innovative written and multimodal resources and the ideologies that underpin them, and shows that methods are not necessarily contingent on their datasets: historical analytic frameworks can be applied to digital data and newer approaches used to understand historical data. These insights present exciting opportunities for English language researchers, both historical and modern.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110670837
ISBN:: 9783110670837
ISBN:: 9783110620399
ISBN:: 9783110670899
ISBN:: 9783110777154
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Patterns in Language and Linguistics

Buch 2019

Patterns in Language and Linguistics

New Perspectives on a Ubiquitous Concept

Beatrix Busse, Ruth Moehlig-Falke

Band 104 in dieser Reihe

Despite its importance for language and cognition, the theoretical concept of »pattern« has received little attention in linguistics so far. The articles in this volume demonstrate the multifariousness of linguistic patterns in lexicology, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, text linguistics, pragmatics, construction grammar, phonology and language acquisition and develop new perspectives on »pattern« as a linguistic concept.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110596656
ISBN:: 9783110596656
ISBN:: 9783110776867
ISBN:: 9783110595512
ISBN:: 9783110592993
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Competition in Language Change

Buch 2019

Competition in Language Change

The Rise of the English Dative Alternation

Eva Zehentner

Band 103 in dieser Reihe

This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics – why variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated – by revisiting the so far neglected history of the English dative alternation.

The alternation between a nominal and a prepositional ditransitive pattern (John gave Mary a book vs. John gave a book to Mary) emerged in Middle English and is closely connected to broader changes at that time. Accordingly, the main quantitative investigation focuses on ditransitive patterns in the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English; in addition, the book employs an Evolutionary Game Theory model. The results are approached from an ‘evolutionary construction grammar’ perspective, combining evolutionary thinking with diachronic constructionist notions, and the alternation’s emergence is interpreted as a story of constructional innovation, competition, cooperation and co-evolution.

The book not only provides a thorough and detailed analysis of the history of one of the most-discussed syntactic phenomena in English, but by fusing two frameworks and employing two different methodologies also presents a highly innovative approach to a problem of relevance to historical linguistics in general.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110633856
ISBN:: 9783110633856
ISBN:: 9783110764369
ISBN:: 9783110630442
ISBN:: 9783110630343
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Null Subjects in Englishes

Buch 2019

Null Subjects in Englishes

A Comparison of British English and Asian Englishes

Verena Schröter

Band 102 in dieser Reihe

This book presents the first systematic quantitative study of null subjects not only in British English, but also in the contact varieties Indian, Hong Kong and Singapore English. Analysing informal spoken language, it addresses issues relevant for language contact and World Englishes, corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics, linguistic typology and syntax.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110649260
ISBN:: 9783110649260
ISBN:: 9783110645354
ISBN:: 9783110633436
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Subordination in English

Buch 2018

Subordination in English

Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

Elena Seoane, Carlos Acuña-Fariña, Ignacio Palacios-Martínez

Band 101 in dieser Reihe

This book provides a collection of articles on subordination in English framed from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. It covers ample areas of the history of the major subordinated structures of English and their recent development in various native and non-native varieties. Most contributions are based on large electronic databases and corpora of written and spoken texts. The book focuses on the continuum that links subordinated and coordinated structures in a fluid way, shows their permanent state of flux, and sheds light on the whole system's dynamic essence by discussing a large number of explanatory principles at work in shaping it. Many of these are well-known from the grammaticalization and the Construction Grammar theories, such as the concepts of attractor, multi-sourcing, inheritance, categorial incursion, metaphorization or exaptation. This volume represents the latest trends in the field by some of its most prestigious specialists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110583571
ISBN:: 9783110583571
ISBN:: 9783110581058
ISBN:: 9783110581034
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Southern English Varieties Then and Now

Buch 2018

Southern English Varieties Then and Now

Laura Wright

Band 100 in dieser Reihe

Most of the world’s Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most densely-habited part of the country. However, the dialects of Southern England remain under-studied. The papers in this volume consider both diachronic and synchronic aspects of the dialects of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire and the Isles of Scilly.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110577549
ISBN:: 9783110577549
ISBN:: 9783110575316
ISBN:: 9783110575217
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Article Emergence in Old English

Buch 2018

Article Emergence in Old English

A Constructionalist Perspective

Lotte Sommerer

Band 99 in dieser Reihe

This book investigates nominal determination in Old English and the emergence of the definite and the indefinite article. Analyzing Old English prose texts, it discusses the nature of linguistic categorization and argues that a usage-based, cognitive, constructionalist approach best explains when, how and why the article category developed. It is shown that the development of the OE demonstrative 'se' (that) and the OE numeral 'an' (one) should not be told as a story of two individual, grammaticalizing morphemes, but must be reconceptualized in constructional terms. The emergence of the morphological category ‘article’ follows from constructional changes in the linguistic networks of OE speakers and especially from ‘grammatical constructionalization’ (i.e. the emergence of a new, schematic, mostly procedural form-meaning pairing which previously did not exist in the constructicon). Next to other functional-cognitive reasons, the book especially highlights analogy and frequency effects as driving forces of linguistic change.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110541052
ISBN:: 9783110541052
ISBN:: 9783110539417
ISBN:: 9783110539370
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Dictionary of English Rhyming Slangs

Buch 2017

A Dictionary of English Rhyming Slangs

Antonio Lillo, Terry Victor

Band 98 in dieser Reihe

This reference work addresses a long-standing need in the study of a class of lexis which attracts attention from scholars and the general public alike. Based on years of extensive research, the dictionary presents a satisfying collection of the varieties of rhyming slang found in and around English-speaking communities worldwide. It covers all forms of rhyming slang in the anglophone world by users from differing social groups and walks of life: criminals, musicians, anglers, second-hand car dealers and sheep-shearers, among many others. Besides ordinary lexical items, this work also lists nicknames and one-off expressions found in culturally valued works, from the fields of literary fiction, poetry, comics, TV and radio series, and films. Each entry is accompanied by chronologically ordered citations from a wide variety of sources (printed and otherwise) showing a word's life and currency. The scope, size and approach of this significant compilation, supported by a substantial bibliography, make it an indispensable work of reference for anyone with an interest in English slang and a key starting point for future research on the origins, social history and development of this fascinating area of the English lexicon.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110535525
ISBN:: 9783110535525
ISBN:: 9783110655889
ISBN:: 9783110533675
ISBN:: 9783110529289
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes

Buch 2017

Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes

The Noun Phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English

Thomas Brunner

Band 97 in dieser Reihe

The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110521801
ISBN:: 9783110521801
ISBN:: 9783110519549
ISBN:: 9783110516593
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Perspectives on Northern Englishes

Buch 2017

Perspectives on Northern Englishes

Sylvie Hancil, Joan C. Beal

Band 96 in dieser Reihe

Northern English has been the object of much attention linguistically over the last thirty years but scholars have had a tendency to focus on the phonology of the dialects and varieties encountered. The purpose of the present volume is to complement and enrich the existing studies by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective, allowing for a holistic interpretation and understanding of Northern English. It includes studies not only on phonology but also on semantics, syntax and sociolinguistics from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, with a special emphasis on the process of enregisterment. The varieties covered include Scottish Standard English, Shetland and Northern Ireland as well as varieties from the North of England.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110450903
ISBN:: 9783110450903
ISBN:: 9783110448740
ISBN:: 9783110448658
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Getting at GET in World Englishes

Buch 2017

Getting at GET in World Englishes

A Corpus-Based Semasiological-Syntactic Analysis

Elisabeth Bruckmaier

Band 95 in dieser Reihe

Despite its exceptional frequency and versatility, GET has never been a focus of research in its entire variability, which goes from lexical to grammatical uses, nor in large amounts of data from different varieties of English. The present corpus-based study deals with over 11,600 tokens of GET in written and spoken language from three varieties of English and thus provides new insights for variationist linguistics. Firstly, it offers a comprehensive semasiological-syntactic analysis of GET, i.e. an analysis of all its meanings and all the constructions into which it enters, suggesting ten categories as being necessary for its complete description. Secondly, it contributes to the understanding of factors that are at work in variation in World Englishes and lead to quantitative differences between regional standard varieties. Thus, the present study demonstrates that the use of GET in the New Englishes analysed is less affected by substrate effects than by the effects of Second Language Acquisition and the varying influence of British and American English norms. Moreover, it can be shown that the New Englishes display more grammatical uses of GET than does British English.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110497311
ISBN:: 9783110497311
ISBN:: 9783110495997
ISBN:: 9783110493573
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in the History of the English Language VII

Buch 2016

Studies in the History of the English Language VII

Generalizing vs. Particularizing Methodologies in Historical Linguistic Analysis

Don Chapman, Colette Moore, Miranda Wilcox

Band 94 in dieser Reihe

This book looks at how historical linguists accommodate the written records used for evidence. The limitations of the written record restrict our view of the past and the conclusions that we can draw about its language. However, the same limitations force us to be aware of the particularities of language. This collection blends the philological with the linguistic, combining questions of the particular with generalizations about language change.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110494235
ISBN:: 9783110494235
ISBN:: 9783110494501
ISBN:: 9783110491746
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: English in Computer-Mediated Communication

Buch 2016

English in Computer-Mediated Communication

Variation, Representation, and Change

Lauren Squires

Band 93 in dieser Reihe

This book addresses the nature of English use within contexts of computer-mediated communication (CMC). CMC includes technologies through which not only is language transmitted, but cultures are formed, ideologies are shaped, power is contested, and sociolinguistic boundaries are crossed and blurred. The volume therefore examines the English language in particular in CMC – what it looks like, what it accomplishes, and what it means to speakers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110490817
ISBN:: 9783110490817
ISBN:: 9783110488326
ISBN:: 9783110610727
ISBN:: 9783110488432
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Changing English

Buch 2017

Changing English

Global and Local Perspectives

Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Anna Mauranen, Svetlana Vetchinnikova

Band 92 in dieser Reihe

This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into contact with each other. The articles in this volume set out to combine all these perspectives in ways that give us a better understanding of the changing nature of English in the modern world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110429657
ISBN:: 9783110429657
ISBN:: 9783110653335
ISBN:: 9783110438574
ISBN:: 9783110429763
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Re-assessing the Present Perfect

Buch 2016

Re-assessing the Present Perfect

Valentin Werner, Elena Seoane, Cristina Suárez-Gómez

Band 91 in dieser Reihe

It is a well-known fact that the area of the present perfect has always been a hotly contested ground, but recent corpus analyses have shown that grammatical variation in this realm in English is far more pervasive than previously assumed.
This volume is the first ever book-length treatment dedicated to corpus-based work on the present perfect. It offers fresh theoretical insights resting on a solid empirical footing and investigates central aspects of language contact and change, grammaticalization, typology, and dialect formation. It sheds light on this morphosyntactic area from different angles, as it comprises both diachronic and synchronic viewpoints. Contributions explore variation in the expression of perfect meaning and the multifunctionality of perfect forms in a number of native and non-native varieties, thus going beyond the traditional British/American English paradigm, while a second focus lies on cross-variety comparisons.
Bringing together the knowledge of leading experts in the field, this book represents the state of the art in data-driven research on the present perfect and will be of interest for those working in the fields of language variation and change, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and typology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110443530
ISBN:: 9783110443530
ISBN:: 9783110443110
ISBN:: 9783110435320
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Variational Text Linguistics

Buch 2016

Variational Text Linguistics

Revisiting Register in English

Christoph Schubert, Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer

Band 90 in dieser Reihe

Owing to the ever-increasing possibilities of communication, especially with the advent of modern communication technologies, register analysis offers a constantly widening range of research opportunities. Still, research has mainly concentrated on well-established and frequent registers such as newspaper articles, while many descriptive and theoretical issues have not yet been sufficiently investigated.
This volume gives a state-of-the-art insight into register studies and points out emerging trends as well as new directions for future research. Furthermore, it provides a forum for the description and discussion of registers which have not received an appropriate amount of attention so far. In particular, it deals with specialized offline and online registers, cross-register comparison as well as regional, contrastive, and diachronic register variation.
In parallel to the new discipline of variational pragmatics, this volume aims to foster the discipline of ‘variational text linguistics’ and to initiate fundamental investigations in this area. This field of research provides new insights into the concept of register, since it covers both functional and regional types of textual variation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110443554
ISBN:: 9783110443554
ISBN:: 9783110435337
ISBN:: 9783110443103
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then

Buch 2015

The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then

Jenny Arendholz, Wolfram Bublitz, Monika Kirner-Ludwig

Band 89 in dieser Reihe

In examining the phenomenon of quoting from multiple angles, The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then offers a fresh view on the forms, functions and usage of quoting as a meta-communicative act in various forms of old (printed) and new (electronically mediated) communication, setting it apart from (seemingly) related acts like repeating or referring. Recent interest in the formal (copy-paste quoting) and ethical (quoting as plagiarizing) aspects of quoting has been gaining considerable momentum in linguistics (and other disciplines), predominantly fuelled by enormous technological progress and the impact on both the procedure of quoting itself and its appraisal in public discourse. Embracing a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, the authors pay special tribute to the inherent complementarity of both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. With contributions pinpointing the formal and functional evolution of quoting and tracing trends in linguistic variation, this volume brings together interpersonal pragmatics, sociolinguistics, historical, cognitive and text linguistics as well as cultural studies. In this way, the present title provides a more comprehensive and integral understanding of the nature of quoting.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110427561
ISBN:: 978-3-11-043175-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-042756-1
ISBN:: 9783110427622
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Vowel-Shifting in the English Language

Buch 2015

Vowel-Shifting in the English Language

An Evolutionary Account

Kamil Kaźmierski

Band 88 in dieser Reihe

English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language. This hypothesis, often only adumbrated in previous work, is closely investigated in this book. Framed within a novel framework combining evolutionary linguistics and Optimality Theory, the account proposed here argues that the replacement of duration by quality as the primary cue to signaling vowel oppositions has resulted in the ‘shiftiness’ of many post-medieval English varieties.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366099
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036950-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036609-9
ISBN:: 9783110394344
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Variability of Current World Englishes

Buch 2014

The Variability of Current World Englishes

Eugene Green, Charles F. Meyer

Band 87.1 in dieser Reihe

Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations. The book's chapters supply descriptions of Jamaican English in Toronto, English as an L2 in a South African mining township, Chinese and English contact in Singapore, unexpected, emergent variants in Canadian English, and innovations in the English of West Virginia. Further, the book offers some perspective on internet English as well as on abiding uniformities in the lexicon and grammar of standard varieties. In the analyses of this heterogeneous growth such considerations as speakers' sociolinguistic profiles, phonological, morpho-syntactic, and lexical variables, frequencies, and typological patterns provide ample insight in the current status of English both in oral and electronic communities. The opening chapter presents a theoretical framework that argues for linguistic typology as conceptually resourceful in accommodating techniques of analysis and in distinguishing the wide arrays of English found throughout the globe. One clear function for Faces of English is that of a catalyst: to spur studies of diversities in English (and in other languages), to suggest approaches to adapt, to invite counterargument and developments in analysis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110352108
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033967-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035210-8
ISBN:: 9783110394917
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Kommunikationswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Interkulturelle Kommunikation
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology

Buch 2015

Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology

Ulrike Gut, Robert Fuchs, Eva-Maria Wunder

Band 86 in dieser Reihe

The book is concerned with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and suprasegmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a postcolonial (“new”) variety of English. It focuses on the acquisition process and factors influencing it, based on insights from all three disciplines.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346084
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034592-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034608-4
ISBN:: 9783110394580
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in the History of the English Language VI

Buch 2014

Studies in the History of the English Language VI

Evidence and Method in Histories of English

Michael Adams, Laurel J. Brinton, R.D. Fulk

Band 85 in dieser Reihe

The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume – which ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora – challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110345957
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034591-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034595-7
ISBN:: 9783110395020
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Salience in Sociolinguistics

Buch 2013

Salience in Sociolinguistics

A Quantitative Approach

Péter Rácz

Band 84 in dieser Reihe

This work proposes a definition of the notion of salience in sociolinguistics. Salient linguistic variants are those that are easily picked up by the listeners, and these stand in opposition to `invisible' variants, which are, even if they also show complex social stratification, completely ignored. Taking a quantitative angle, this work sees salience as a function of relative frequency differences, giving it an empirically testable operationalisation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110305395
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030432-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030539-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Entrenchment in Usage-Based Theories

Buch 2012

Entrenchment in Usage-Based Theories

What Corpus Data Do and Do Not Reveal About The Mind

Alice Blumenthal-Dramé

Band 83 in dieser Reihe

This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users. To probe the correlation between corpus-extracted usage data and mental entrenchment, the author operationalises entrenchment in Gestalt psychological terms and conducts a series of behavioural and neuroimaging experiments.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110294002
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029385-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029400-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Neurolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Extra-grammatical Morphology in English

Buch 2013

Extra-grammatical Morphology in English

Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena

Elisa Mattiello

Band 82 in dieser Reihe

Extra-grammatical morphology is a hitherto neglected area of research, highly marginalised because of its irregularity and unpredictability. Yet many neologisms in English are formed by means of extra-grammatical mechanisms, such as abbreviation, blending and reduplication, which therefore deserve both greater attention and more systematic study. This book analyses such phenomena.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295399
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029386-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029539-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: English Modality

Buch 2013

English Modality

Core, Periphery and Evidentiality

Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Marta Carretero, Jorge Arús Hita, Johan van der Auwera

Band 81 in dieser Reihe

The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking areas, and in different genres and discourse domains, the volume addresses the following issues: the conceptual nature of modality, the relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories (tense, aspect, mood), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110286328
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028621-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028632-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Areal Features of the Anglophone World

Buch 2012

Areal Features of the Anglophone World

Raymond Hickey

Band 80 in dieser Reihe

The intention of the present volume is to unite the research of a range of scholars who have been working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.e. which cluster geographically across the world. Features common to an area can be due to (i) shared dialect input, (ii) common but separate innovations after settlement, or (iii) area-internal diffusion from one variety to another and/or others. The relative weighting of these factors is an important topic in the book and is a key focus in the 17 chapters.

The book is divided into two large blocks, the first one consisting of case studies (8 chapters) and the second with features complexes (9 chapters). The former look at major anglophone locations from an areal perspective while the latter examine linguistic categories and features with a view to determine whether these could be areally based or not.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279429
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027884-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027942-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Dialektologie
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The English it-Cleft

Buch 2012

The English it-Cleft

A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation

Amanda L. Patten

Band 79 in dieser Reihe

This book examines the structure and function of the English it-cleft configuration from within the framework of construction grammar. It defends a straightforward extraposition-from-NP analysis (on which the cleft clause is a restrictive relative, modifying the initial it) and claims that all types of it-cleft involve nominal predication. Support for this analysis comes from three main areas: (a) the central role of definiteness in the creation of specificational meaning, (b) the existence and makeup of predicational (and proverbial) it-clefts, and (c) the early, historical it-cleft data. In addition, the book contains a sizeable diachronic component, drawing data from the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English and from the International Corpus of English - Great Britain. This investigation informs and advances what is an otherwise simple account of the English it-cleft, explaining how and why the configuration has developed an assortment of peculiar, construction-specific properties over time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279528
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027780-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027952-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Phrasal Verbs

Buch 2012

Phrasal Verbs

The English Verb-Particle Construction and its History

Stefan Thim

Band 78 in dieser Reihe

The book traces the evolution of the English verb-particle construction (‘phrasal verb’) from Indo-European and Germanic up to the present. A contrastive survey of the basic semantic and syntactic characteristics of verb-particle constructions in the present-day Germanic languages shows that the English construction is structurally unremarkable and its analysis as a periphrastic word-formation is proposed.

From a cross-linguistic and comparative perspective the Old English prefix verbs are identified as preverbs and the shift towards postposition of the particles is connected to the development of more general patterns of word order. The interplay of phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic factors in the loss of the native prefixes in the history of English is investigated. In this context the question is discussed to what extent the older prefixes were replaced by particles and borrowed prefixes, how the characteristic etymological and semantic properties of the Modern English phrasal verbs can be explained and what role they play in the lexicon. The author argues that their common perception as particularly ‘English’, ‘colloquial’ and ‘informal’ has its origin in the eighteenth-century normative tradition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110257038
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025702-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025703-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Present Perfect in Non-Native Englishes

Buch 2011

The Present Perfect in Non-Native Englishes

A Corpus-Based Study of Variation

Julia Davydova

Band 77 in dieser Reihe

This is an innovative study of variation among linguistic items in what has been traditionally described as present perfect contexts. The study offers analyses of new data sets taken from an interestingly diverse set of non-native Englishes. While comprising traditional second-language varieties such as Indian English, Singapore English, East African English in the investigation of the present perfect, the study extends its scope to cover learner varieties of English spoken in Russia and Germany.

The author takes her reader on an amazing variationist journey around the globe, revealing chapter after chapter the commonalities and differences in the patterns of use of the English present perfect and, finally, developing a comprehensive perspective allowing for robust generalisations across numerous data sets.

Moreover, empirical data serves as a baseline for taking a stand on a number of currently debated issues in variationist sociolinguistics, research on second language acquisition as well as research on linguistic complexity. Thus operating on the interface of various linguistic paradigms, the book addresses a vast audience including students of linguistics and researchers with various fields of specialization.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255027
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025501-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025502-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zweitspracherwerb
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Code-Switching in Early English

Buch 2011

Code-Switching in Early English

Herbert Schendl, Laura Wright

Band 76 in dieser Reihe

The complex linguistic situation of earlier multilingual Britain has led to numerous contact-induced changes in the history of English. However, bi- and multilingual texts, which are attested in a large variety of text types, are still an underresearched aspect of earlier linguistic contact. Such texts, which switch between Latin, English and French, have increasingly been recognized as instances of written code-switching and as highly relevant evidence for the linguistic strategies which medieval and early modern multilingual speakers used for different purposes.

The contributions in this volume approach this phenomenon of mixed-language texts from the point of view of code-switching, an important mechanism of linguistic change. Based on a variety of text types and genres from the medieval and Early Modern English periods, the individual papers present detailed linguistic analyses of a large number of texts, addressing a variety of issues, including methodological questions as well as functional, pragmatic, syntactic and lexical aspects of language mixing. The very specific nature of language mixing in some text types also raises important theoretical questions such as the distinction between borrowing and switching, the existence of discrete linguistic codes in earlier multilingual Britain and, more generally, the possible limits of the code-switching paradigm for the analysis of these mixed texts from the early history of English.

Thus the volume is of particular interest not only for historical linguists, medievalists and students of the history of English, but also for sociolinguists, psycholinguists, language theorists and typologists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110253368
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025335-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025336-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Modal Adjectives

Buch 2012

Modal Adjectives

English Deontic and Evaluative Constructions in Diachrony and Synchrony

An Van Linden

Band 75 in dieser Reihe

The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz. adjectives. On the basis of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, it analyses the semantics of English adjectives like essential and appropriate, and uses this to refine traditional definitions of deontic modality, which are mainly based on the study of modal verbs.

In a first step, it is shown that the set of meanings expressed by extraposition constructions with deontic adjectives is quite different from the set of meanings identified in the literature on modal verbs. Adjectival complement constructions lack the directive meanings of obligation or permission, which are traditionally regarded as the core deontic categories, and they have semantic extensions towards non-modal meanings in the evaluative domain. In a second step, the analysis of adjectives is used to propose an alternative definition of deontic modality, which covers both the meanings of verbs and adjectives, and which can deal with the different extensions towards modal and non-modal categories. This is integrated into a conceptual map, which works both in diachrony, defining pathways of change from premodal to modal to evaluative meaning, and in synchrony, accommodating refinements within each set of meanings. In the process, this study points to the emergence of partially filled constructions, and it offers additional evidence for well-established changes in the history of English, such as the decline of the subjunctive and the rise of the to-infinitive in complement constructions.

The book is of particular interest to researchers and graduate students with a focus on mood and modality, and the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as that between synchrony and diachrony.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252941
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025293-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025294-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Layering of Size and Type Noun Constructions in English

Buch 2011

Layering of Size and Type Noun Constructions in English

Lieselotte Brems

Band 74 in dieser Reihe

On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at the synchronic layers of binominal size noun and type noun uses (a bunch/a load of X; a sort of X; a Y type of X) and reconsiders the framework of grammaticalization in view of issues raised by the phrases under discussion. As a result, a construction grammar-approach to grammaticalization is developed which does justice to the syntagmatic lexical, or collocational, reclustering observed in the data within an eclectic cognitive-functional approach.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252927
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025291-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025292-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Current Methods in Historical Semantics

Buch 2011

Current Methods in Historical Semantics

Kathryn Allan, Justyna A. Robinson

Band 73 in dieser Reihe

Innovative, data-driven methods provide more rigorous and systematic evidence for the description and explanation of diachronic semantic processes. The volume systematises, reviews, and promotes a range of empirical research techniques and theoretical perspectives that currently inform work across the discipline of historical semantics. In addition to emphasising the use of new technology, the potential of current theoretical models (e.g. within variationist, sociolinguistic or cognitive frameworks) is explored along the way.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252903
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025288-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025290-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Typological Changes in the Lexicon

Buch 2011

Typological Changes in the Lexicon

Analytic Tendencies in English Noun Formation

Alexander Haselow

Band 72 in dieser Reihe

This is the first study of the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language that focuses exclusively on the lexical domain of the language. It presents an innovative approach to linguistic typology by focusing on the different encoding techniques used in the lexicon, providing a theoretical framework for the description of structural types (synthetic, analytic) and encoding techniques (fusional, isolating, agglutinative, incorporating) found in the lexicon of a language.

It is argued that, in the case of English, the change from syntheticity to analyticity did not only affect its inflectional system and the encoding of grammatical information, but also the derivational component. Based on a cognitive approach to derivation, the book provides empirical evidence for a considerable decline in the use of synthetic structures and a trend towards higher degrees of analyticity in a specific lexical domain of English, the formation of nouns by means of derivation. The full extent of this change surfaced during the transition from Old English to early Middle English, but it was later partly reversed though influence from French. The typological shift was thus the result of a global structural reorganization of the language that resulted in a fundamental change of the structure of words.

The book also presents a comprehensive account of the historical development of nominal derivation from the beginnings of Old English until the end of the early Middle English period. Based on empirical data from written sources the study documents the frequency of use of all Germanic-based derivational morphemes for nominalizations over different subperiods and discusses their origin as well as important changes of their semantic and morphological properties.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238211
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023820-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023821-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Verb Valency Patterns

Buch 2011

Verb Valency Patterns

A Challenge for Semantics-Based Accounts

Susen Faulhaber

Band 71 in dieser Reihe

Taking as its point of departure the general assumption that meaning is crucial in accounting for verb complementation, this volume presents the results of an empirical study of verb complementation patterns of semantically similar English verbs. The semantic parallels of the verbs selected are based on their coverage in dictionaries - first and foremost the Valency Dictionary of English (Herbst, Heath, Roe and Götz 2004) - as well as corpus research and native speaker assessments. It is demonstrated that despite obvious similarities in complementation between such verbs, there are still a significant number of syntactic discrepancies which cannot be accounted for on the basis of meaning alone and that semantic factors - such as selection restrictions and aspectual properties - do not sufficiently correlate with the verbs' syntactic properties and consequently do not have sufficient explanatory power.

Thus the results rigorously challenge so-called projectionist approaches which assume the position that complementation is determined by semantic properties and thus ought to be predictable on this basis. In the light of a general trend towards placing greater emphasis on semantic aspects, in the fields of construction grammar and cognitive grammar too, the number of idiosyncratic phenomena on the level of single complements as well as whole patterns clearly underlines the importance of storage phenomena as opposed to rule-based generation. As such it stresses the necessity of finding ways to systematically account for item-specific properties of verbs in any grammatical theory of the English language.

The book is targeted at all linguists interested in the relationship between semantics and syntax, which is one of the prevalent questions in modern linguistics, also in the field of construction grammar and cognitive grammar. Since the data is presented in a way which is compatible with various theories of complementation, the target group is clearly not restricted to any specific linguistic school. Because of the large amount of item-specific information presented, this book is also a valuable source for grammarians and lexicographers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240788
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024071-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024078-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Syntactic Variation and Genre

Buch 2010

Syntactic Variation and Genre

Heidrun Dorgeloh, Anja Wanner

Band 70 in dieser Reihe

This volume explores the interplay of syntactic variation and genre. How do genres emerge and what is the role of syntax in constituting them? Why do certain constructions appear in certain types of text? The book takes the concept of genre as a reference-point for the description and analysis of morpho-syntactic variation and change. It includes both overviews of theoretical approaches to the concept of genre and text type in linguistics and studies of specific syntactic phenomena in English, German, and selected Romance languages.

Contributions to the volume make use of insights from attempts for text classification and rhetorical views on genre and reach from quantitative, corpus-based methodology to qualitative, text-based analyses. The types of texts investigated cover spoken, highly interactive, and written forms of communication, including selected genres of computer-mediated communication. Corpus data come from both synchronic and diachronic linguistic corpora, such as LOB, Brown, FLOB, Frown, ARCHER, and ICE-Jamaica. This spectrum both in approaches and data is meant to provide a theoretical foundation as well as a realistic view of the inherent complexity of form-function relationships in syntax. At the same time, genre is treated as a category relevant beyond discourse studies, consisting of forms and conventions at all levels of linguistic analysis, including syntax.

The book is therefore of interest to linguists and graduate students in the area of syntax, discourse analysis, and pragmatics, as well as to sociolinguists and corpus linguists working on register variation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226485
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022647-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022648-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Funktionale grammatische Theorien
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Topicalization and Stress Clash Avoidance in the History of English

Buch 2010

Topicalization and Stress Clash Avoidance in the History of English

Augustin Speyer

Band 69 in dieser Reihe

The book is concerned with the interaction of syntax, information structure and prosody in the history of English, demonstrating this with a case study of object topicalization. The approach is data-oriented, using material from syntactically parsed digital corpora of Old, Middle and Early Modern English, which serve as a solid foundation for conclusions.

The use of object topicalization underwent a sharp decline from Old English until today. In the present volume, a basic prosodic well-formedness condition, the Clash Avoidance Requirement, is identified as the main factor for this change. With the loss of V2-syntax, object topicalization led more easily to cases in which two focalized phrases, the topicalized object and the subject, are adjacent. The two focal accents on these phrases would produce a clash, thus violating the Clash Avoidance Requirement. In order to circumvent this, the use of topicalization in critical cases is avoided.

The Clash Avoidance Requirement is highly relevant also today, as experimental data on English and German show. Further, the Clash Avoidance Requirement helps to explain the well-known syntactic structure of the left periphery in Old English. An analysis positing two subject positions is defended in the study. The variation of these subject positions is shown to depend not on pronominal vs. lexical status of the subject but on information structural properties.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220247
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022023-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022024-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in the History of the English Language V

Buch 2010

Studies in the History of the English Language V

Variation and Change in English Grammar and Lexicon: Contemporary Approaches

Robert A. Cloutier, Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

Band 68 in dieser Reihe

This collection of essays focuses on current approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon. Of the twelve papers in the collection, half are based on grammar and syntax, half on lexical developments. The volume highlights the contributions that strong empirical research can make to our knowledge of the development of English grammar, especially as realized in lexical development. In illustration of contemporary research trends, the articles in the collection make strong use of extralinguistic factors to discuss language change as well as argue for internal and structural development.

The authors are drawn from nine different countries, and each article is followed by a commentary and response that provide actual dialogue about the issues in the field, thus representing world-wide discussion of issues in the history of English. The essays recognize the different audiences for historical variation and change - formal linguists, sociolinguists, and lexicographers - and specifically address the interests and discourse in those areas.

The volume shows how historical studies of English are increasingly engaged with contemporary trends in linguistics, at the same time as demonstrating how empirical and other methods can bring classical philology fully into the sphere of contemporary linguistics without abandoning its traditional concerns.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220339
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022032-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022033-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cardinal Numerals

Buch 2010

Cardinal Numerals

Old English from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Ferdinand von Mengden

Band 67 in dieser Reihe

The book embeds a description and an analysis of the Old English numeral system into a broader, cross-linguistic discussion. It provides a theoretical framework for the study of numerals and numeral systems of natural languages, bridging the gap between recent findings in the cognitive sciences on numeracy and the known typological generalisations on cardinal numerals.

The Old English numeral system shows a number of peculiarities not found in the present-day languages of Europe. Its detailed description is therefore an ideal locus for studying the features of linguistic number expressions in terms of their morpho-syntactic properties and of the structure of numeral systems.
The approach is innovative in that it combines a detailed analysis of the numeral system with the analysis of the grammatical properties of cardinal numerals. For the description of Old English, the study focuses on aspects of information structure and of referent identification in quantificational constructions. This leads to a novel perspective on the language-internal variation in the agreement patterns between numerals and quantified nouns, allowing the author to test and refine some long standing tenets in the study of numerals and to offer alternative explanations.

Rather than seeing numerals as a hybrid word class, the author argues that this variation in the morpho-syntactic behaviour follows identifiable patterns specific to the word class numeral. He accounts for these patterns by positing different, cross-linguistically uniform stages in the emergence of numeral systems, as well as varying degrees of discreteness of the quantified noun. Moreover, the author demonstrates that the constraints determining this variation in Old English have obvious parallels across languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220353
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022034-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022035-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization

Buch 2010

Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization

Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte, Hubert Cuyckens

Band 66 in dieser Reihe

This volume aims to arrive at a fine-grained and grammar-based understanding of the notions of (inter-)subjectivity and (inter-)subjectification in their application to grammaticalization research. In terms of linguistic theory, position is taken vis-à-vis existing approaches to (inter-)subjectification which are either too narrow or too general by addressing two questions: (i) what is the relation between (inter-)subjectivity and pragmatics, and (ii) on what grounds can subjective and intersubjective meanings be distinguished?

In the descriptive sections of the volume, these theoretical considerations are confronted with extensive analytical, and often also quantitative, study of empirical data mainly from English but also from Romance languages. The focus in these case studies is on the analytical and diachronic relations between subjectivity and intersubjectivity, with particular emphasis on the question how linguistic syntagms may shift towards the expression of meanings of which the hearer is an essential part. The domains covered include adverbials and modals, but also the noun phrase, to date a relatively under-researched area in grammaticalization studies. Together these three areas ensure broad verification of existing hypotheses about the relative order in which subjectification and intersubjectification take place.

This volume is mainly of interest to researchers and graduate students with a special interest in subjectification, intersubjectification and grammaticalization, and with a general interest in language change. The volume will also be welcomed by functional linguists (in a broad sense), since it is the first to bring eclectic functionalists' reflections to bear so explicitly on grammaticalization.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226102
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020588-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022610-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Funktionale grammatische Theorien
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Speech and Thought Representation in English

Buch 2009

Speech and Thought Representation in English

A Cognitive-Functional Approach

Lieven Vandelanotte

Band 65 in dieser Reihe

This book aims to provide a new, linguistically grounded typology of speech and thought representation in English on the basis of the systematic study of deictic, syntactic and semantic properties of authentic examples drawn from literary as well as non-literary sources.

In the area beyond direct and indirect speech or thought, ‘free indirect discourse’ has often been implicitly treated as a residual category that can accommodate anything that is neither one nor the other. This book takes a fresh look at the evidence in the area of deixis, particularly through a close study of pronoun and proper name use, and proposes to distinguish the more character-oriented free indirect type from a narrator-oriented ‘distancing’ indirect type, which is grammatically wholly structured from the narrator’s deictic standpoint. Unlike free indirect representations, which coherently represent the character’s viewpoint, the distancing indirect type sees narrators appropriating character discourse for their own purposes, which may for instance be ironic. The distinctions thus drawn shed new light on the much debated ‘dual voice’ approach to free indirect discourse.

Included in the scope of this book are subjectified uses of clauses such as I think, which no longer primarily construe a cognition process, but rather come to function as hedges. Such speaker-encoding uses are argued to involve an interpersonal type of structure, not based on complementation, whereas the non-subjectified cases receive an interclausal complementation analysis which does not have recourse to the problematic notion of ‘reporting verb’.

This monograph is mainly of interest to researchers and graduate students interested in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of reported speech viewed from a constructional perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110215373
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020589-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021537-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Argument and Rhetoric

Buch 2010

Argument and Rhetoric

Adverbial Connectors in the History of English

Ursula Lenker

Band 64 in dieser Reihe

The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. The author analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and considers morphological and syntactic factors as well as pragmatic, textlinguistic and socio-cultural aspects.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216066
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020558-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021606-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: English Adjectives of Comparison

Buch 2010

English Adjectives of Comparison

Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses

Tine Breban

Band 63 in dieser Reihe

The book is concerned with a hitherto underresearched grammaticalization process: the development from quality-attributing adjective to determiner in the English noun phrase. It takes a bottom-up approach, based on extensive synchronic and diachronic corpus studies of six English adjectives of comparison: other, different, same, identical, similar and comparable. Their functional diversity in current English is proposed to constitute a case of layering, representing the original descriptive use, which expresses how like/unlike each other entities are, and a range of grammaticalized referential uses, which contribute to the identification and/or quantification of the entities denoted by the NP. Diachronic and comparative data material is invoked to verify and further develop the grammaticalization hypothesis.

The development of adjectives of comparison involves several key concepts identified in the literature. Crucially, it is described as a case of textual intersubjectification driven by the optimalization of recipient-design. The actual grammaticalization paths are diverse and are characterized by lexical as well as structural persistence, i.e. the same lexical meaning develops into different grammatical functions in different syntagmatic configurations.

In order to define the NP as a locus of diachronic change, this study offers a new angle on the description of adjectives and the modelling of NP structure. It advocates the abandonment of the traditional class-based model in favour of a radically functional one, in which functions are defined in terms of prototypicality so as to allow for gradience between and within them. The described grammaticalization processes involve developments from prototypical lexical to grammatical reference-related use within the adjectival category, which can be the starting point of further gradual change to determiners. The traditional relation between classes and positions is envisaged as a correspondence between functional and syntactic zones. The change in form concomitant with grammaticalization in the NP is argued to consist of the reconfiguration of structural combinatorics and progressive leftward movement.

The book is of interest to linguistic researchers and graduate students in linguistics who focus their attention on grammaticalization and subjectification, the functional description of adjectives, questions of deixis and theoretical issues relating to nominal reference.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216011
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020580-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021601-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Reign of Truth and Faith

Buch 2009

The Reign of Truth and Faith

Epistemic Expressions in 16th and 17th Century English

Helen Bromhead

Band 62 in dieser Reihe

This is a ground-breaking study in the historical semantics and pragmatics of English in the 16th and 17th centuries. It examines the meaning, use and cultural underpinnings of confident- and certain-sounding epistemic expressions, such as forsooth, by my troth and in faith, and first person epistemic phrases, such as I suppose, I ween and I think.

The work supports the hypothesis that the British Enlightenment and its attendant empiricism brought about a profound epistemic shift in the ‘ways of thinking’ and ‘ways of speaking’ in the English speaking world. In contrast to the modern ethos of empiricism and doubt, the 16th and 17th centuries were dominated by an ethos of truth and faith, which manifests itself in (among other ways) the meanings and usages of epistemic expressions for certainty and confidence. The study is firmly based on evidence from texts and collocations in the writings of the day.

The study is conducted using the framework of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), an approach to semantic explanation developed by Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka and collaborators. This book can introduce this approach to readers who are unfamiliar with it, as well as show how it can open new horizons in historical semantics.

The primary audience for this book is scholars and graduate students in the fields of linguistics and English studies, especially those interested in historical semantics, pragmatics and discourse studies. Because of the strongly cultural focus of the book and its drawing on non-linguistic literature, it will be of interest to scholars and graduate students in the fields of cultural history and the history of ideas, as well as in English studies in a broader sense.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216028
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020559-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021602-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in the History of the English Language IV

Buch 2008

Studies in the History of the English Language IV

Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change

Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Donka Minkova

Band 61 in dieser Reihe

Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change continues the project of initiating and energizing the conversations among historians of the English language fostered by the series of conferences on studying the history of the English language (SHEL), begun in 2000 at UCLA. It follows in the footsteps of three high-profile SHEL-based collections of peer-reviewed research papers and point-counterpoint commentaries.

In the current volume, the editors invited contributors to reflect upon their approaches and practices in undertaking historical studies, focusing particularly on the methods deployed in selecting and analyzing data. The essays in this volume represent interests in the study of linguistic change in English that range across different periods, genres, and aspects of the language and show different approaches and use of evidence to deal with the subject. They also represent the current state of research in the field and the nature of the debates in which scholars and historians engage as regards the nature of the evidence adduced in the explanation of change and the robustness of heuristics.

The editors share a strong interest in examining the evidence that informs and grounds research in their fields at the same time as interrogating the heuristics employed by their colleagues for the histories they present. The contributions to the volume give expression to these interests. Contributors are: Richard Hogg (to whose memory the volume is dedicated), William Labov, Elizabeth Traugott, Rob Fulk, Thomas Cable, Jennifer Tran-Smith, Charles Li, Christina Fitzgerald, David Denison, Christopher Palmer, Don Chapman, Graeme Trousdale, Joan Beal, Connie Eble, Stefan Dollinger and Raymond Hickey.

The volume is of interest to scholars and postgraduate and research students in the history of English, English philology, and (English) historical linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211801
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020587-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021180-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Volume 1 The Grammar of the English Tense System

Buch 2006

Volume 1 The Grammar of the English Tense System

A Comprehensive Analysis

Susan Reed, Bert Cappelle

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase

Band 60.1 in dieser Reihe

The Grammar of the English Tense System forms the first volume of a four-volume set, The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase. The other volumes, to appear over the next few years, will deal with mood and modality, aspect and voice.

The book aims to provide a grammar of tense which can be used both as an advanced reference grammar (for example by MA-level or postgraduate students of English or linguistics) and as a scientific study which can act as a basis for and stimulus to further research. It provides not only a wealth of data but also a unique framework for the study of the English tense system, which achieves great predictive and explanatory power on the basis of a limited number of relatively simple rules.

The framework provided allows for an analysis of the semantics of individual tenses which reflects the role of tenses not only in locating situations in time relative to speech time but also in relating situations in time relative to one another to form temporally coherent discourse. Attention is paid to the relations between tenses. On the one hand, we can identify sets of tenses linked to particular temporal areas such as the past or the future. These sets of tenses provide for the expression of a system of temporal relations in a stretch of discourse in which all the situations are located within the same temporal area. On the other hand, there are many contexts in which speakers might in theory choose between two or more tenses to locate a situation (e.g., when we choose between the past tense and the present perfect to locate a situation before speech time), and the book examines the difference that a choice of one or the other tense may make within a discourse context.

The book moves from a detailed exploration of the meaning and use of individual tenses to a thorough analysis of the way in which tenses can be seen to function together as sets, and finally to a detailed examination of tenses in, and tenses interacting with, temporal adverbials.

Original data is used frequently throughout the book to illustrate the theory discussed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199888
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018589-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019988-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England

Buch 2008

Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Band 59 in dieser Reihe

The book offers insight into the publication history of eighteenth-century English grammars in unprecedented detail. It is based on a close analysis of various types of relevant information: Alston's bibliography of 1965, showing that this source needs to be revised urgently; the recently published online database Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) with respect to sources of information never previously explored or analysed (such as book catalogues and library catalogues); Carol Percy's database on the reception of eighteenth-century grammars in contemporary periodical reviews; and so-called precept corpora containing data on the treatment in a large variety of grammars (and other works) of individual grammatical constructions.

By focussing on individual grammars and their history a number of long-standing questions are solved with respect to the authorship of particular grammars and related work (the Brightland/Gildon grammar and the Bellum Grammaticale; Ann Fisher's grammar) while new questions are identified, such as the significant change of approach between the publication of one grammar and its second edition of seven years later (Priestley), and the dependence of later practical grammars (for mothers and their children) on earlier publications.

The contributions present a view of the grammarians as individuals with (or without) specific qualifications for undertaking what they did, with their own ideas on teaching methodology, and as writers ultimately engaged in the common aim presenting practical grammars of English to the general public. Interestingly - and importantly - this collection of articles demonstrates the potential of ECCO as a resource for further research in the field.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199185
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019627-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019918-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Modality in English

Buch 2009

Modality in English

Theory and Description

Raphael Salkie, Pierre Busuttil, Johan van der Auwera

Band 58 in dieser Reihe

This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality.

On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shall and may vs must in legal English, the use of surprised if and surprising if constructions, the use and history of adhortative constructions, or the modal-aspectual use of come to in I came to realize that X. The book also contains work that presents new views on some of the classical issues, like the relations between modality and time, modality and commitment, modals and (inter)subjectivity. A special place is given to work that approaches the English modals from the perspective of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.

Thus the book provides new perspectives and answers on basic questions about modality, in general, and its expression in English, in particular.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110213331
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019634-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021333-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Constructional Approaches to English Grammar

Buch 2008

Constructional Approaches to English Grammar

Graeme Trousdale, Nikolas Gisborne

Band 57 in dieser Reihe

This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged with the notion of 'construction' in their work. The research here is concerned with both synchrony and diachrony, with the relationship between Construction Grammar and other linguistic theories, and with a number of issues in the study of grammar, such as raising and control phenomena, transitivity, relative clause structure, the syntax of gerunds, attributive and predicative uses of adjectives, modality, and grammaticalization.

Some of the articles are written within a constructional framework, while others highlight potential problems with constructional approaches to English grammar; some of the articles are based on data collected from corpora, some on introspection; some of the articles suggest potential developments for diachronic construction grammar, while others seek to compare Construction Grammar with other cognitive linguistic theories, most particularly Word Grammar. The research reported in this volume presents a series of ways of looking at the relationship between constructions and patterns in English grammar, either now or in the past.

The book addresses scholars and advanced students who are interested in English grammar, constructional approaches to language, and the relationship between functional and formal issues in linguistic description and theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199178
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019626-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019917-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty

Buch 2007

The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty

A Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs

Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Karin Aijmer

Band 56 in dieser Reihe

In spite of the vast literature on modality in English, very little research has been done on modal adverbs as a group. While there are studies of individual adverbs, the semantic and pragmatic relations between them have been left largely unexplored. This book takes a close look at the whole field of modal certainty as expressed by adverbs in English. On the basis of corpus data the most frequent adverbs of certainty, including certainly, indeed, and no doubt, are examined from the point of view of their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The corpus used is the International Corpus of English - Great Britain, supplemented by data from other present-day English corpora, and questionnaires testing native speakers' intuitions on fine-grained similarities and differences between closely related adverbs. The methodology also includes the study of cross-linguistic equivalents as indicators of semantic-pragmatic relations between adverbs. Translation corpora yield correspondences in Swedish, Dutch, French and German. A detailed study of those correspondences adds useful information for setting up a semantic-pragmatic profile of each adverb, showing where their meanings overlap and where the boundaries are. The concept of semantic maps is relied on for plotting these relations.

The book not only provides a thorough empirical study of English adverbs expressing certainty, it also contributes to a better theoretical understanding of the complexity of modal certainty, how it is related to speakers' goals and to other semantic areas. It is the first in-depth study of this kind, combining rich information on English as well as opening up perspectives for further empirical and theoretical research into modality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198928
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019617-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019892-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Rethinking the Coordinate-Subordinate Dichotomy

Buch 2007

Rethinking the Coordinate-Subordinate Dichotomy

Interpersonal Grammar and the Analysis of Adverbial Clauses in English

Jean-Christophe Verstraete

Band 55 in dieser Reihe

This study argues that the domain traditionally covered by 'coordination' and 'subordination' in English can be subdivided into four distinct construction types. The constructions are defined on the basis of differences in their 'interpersonal' structure, i.e. the grammatical encoding of speaker-attitude and speaker-interlocutor interaction. It is shown that the four types constitute syntactically, semantically and pragmatically coherent categories, with differences in interpersonal structure defining and motivating distinct syntactic behaviour, distinct pragmatic functions and distinct semantic classes of clause linkage.

The validity of the analysis is demonstrated in three ways. First, it is shown that the analysis can make sense of the wide range of apparently conflicting criteria found in the literature on complex sentences, which can now be explained as reflections of four different construction types rather than as alternative perspectives on one single contrast between coordination and subordination. Second, it is shown how the analysis can deal with two specific problems in the more general area of clause combining, viz. the syntactic basis of the distinction between 'content', 'epistemic' and 'speech act' levels of clause linkage, and the distinct discursive functions associated with initial and final position of adverbial clauses. Finally, it is also shown that the proposed analysis is useful beyond the analysis of English, with parallels in a number of cross-linguistically recurrent phenomena of clause linkage.

The book is mainly of interest to linguistics researchers in the areas of syntax, semantics and pragmatics as well as to graduate students with a focus on these fields.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918199
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019950-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091819-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Phraseology and Culture in English

Buch 2007

Phraseology and Culture in English

Paul Skandera

Band 54 in dieser Reihe

The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is generally accepted today that a language, especially its lexicon, influences its speakers' cultural patterns of thought and perception in various ways, for example through a culture-specific segmentation of the extralinguistic reality, the frequency of occurrence of particular lexical items, or the existence of keywords or key word combinations revealing core cultural values.

The aim of this volume is to explore the cultural dimension of a wide range of preconstructed or semi-preconstructed word combinations in English. The 17 papers of the volume are divided into four sections, focusing on particular lexemes (e.g. enjoy and its collocates), types of word combinations (e.g. proverbs and similes), use-related varieties (such as the language of tourism or answering-machine messages), and user-related varieties (such as Aboriginal English or African English). The sections are preceded by a prologue, tracing the development of the study of formulaic language, and followed by an epilogue, which draws together the threads laid out in the various papers.

The relation between language and culture in general has been explored in a number of important works over the past ten years. However, the study of the relation between English phraseology and culture in particular has been largely neglected. This volume is the first book-length publication devoted entirely to this topic.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197860
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019087-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019786-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in the History of the English Language III

Buch 2007

Studies in the History of the English Language III

Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English

Christopher M. Cain, Geoffrey Russom

Band 53 in dieser Reihe

The essays of this volume employ diverse strategies for conceptualizing the history of English as at once chaotic and yet amenable to circumscribed analyses that incorporate a broad view of language change. Several of the world's leading scholars of the English language contribute to the overall perspective that an elaboration of linguistic, cultural, and social contexts and a renewed emphasis on the concrete historical conditions of language change are necessary to approach some long-standing obstacles in the study of the history of the English language.

Designed for students, teachers, and scholars of the English language, Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English (SHEL III) presents studies on all periods of the English language in a variety of theoretical and methodological modes. Highlights include Anatoly Liberman's sweeping comparative revision of the history of palatalized and velarized consonants in English; William Kretzschmar's (et al.) wittily illuminating study of a suburban Atlanta, Georgia town that epitomizes the specific ways in which inter-regional linguistic variation can be maintained while local social factors drive dramatic change on an intra-regional level; Lesley Milroy's innovative analysis of recent unitary changes in global Englishes that cannot be accounted for by classic Labovian models that situate language change within small, close networks of speakers who mediate variation in face-to-face interactions, an observation that leads Milroy to propose two distinct but cross-influencing levels of social dynamics in language change.

All of the essays of this volume include careful critiques of the construction of our present understanding of the history of English, thus marking the path behind while shining a light on the way ahead for the future of the discipline.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198515
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019089-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019851-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Methods in Historical Pragmatics

Buch 2007

Methods in Historical Pragmatics

Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Irma Taavitsainen

Band 52 in dieser Reihe

This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or historical discourse analysis. The context for the volume is a critical assessment of the assumptions and practices defining the body of research conducted on the history of the English language from the perspective of historical pragmatics, broadly construed. The aim of the volume is to engage with matters of approach and method from different perspectives; accordingly, the contributions offer insights into earlier communicative practices, registers, and linguistic functions as gleaned from historical discourse.

The essays are grouped according to their orientations within the scope of the study of language and meaning in historical texts, both literary and non-literary. The structure of the volume thus represents a critical convergence of traditions of reading texts and analyzing discourse and this in turn exposes key questions about the methods and the outcomes of such readings or analyses. The volume contributes to the growing maturity of historical pragmatic research approaches as it exemplifies and extends the range of approaches and methods that dominate the research enterprise.

Contributors are prominent international scholars in the fields of linguistics, literature, and philology: Dawn Archer, Birte Bös, Laurel Brinton, Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti, James Fitzmaurice, Susan Fitzmaurice, Monika Fludernik, Andreas Jucker, Thomas Kohnen, Ursula Lenker, Lynne Magnusson, and Irma Taavitsainen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197822
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019041-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019782-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics

Buch 2005

Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics

Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421-1503)

Alexander Bergs

Band 51 in dieser Reihe

The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view. In the three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English <h-> pronouns by borrowed <th-> pronouns, the introduction and spread of the <wh-> relativizers, and the spread and routinization of light verb constructions (take, make, give, have, do plus deverbal noun).

While the study aims at a balanced integration of theories and methods from a number of different approaches in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, typology, and language change, its main focus is social network theory and the role of the linguistic individual in the formation and change of language structures. Questions of individual language use and of deliberate versus unmonitored changes in the (individual) system take center stage and are discussed in the light of social network analysis. Traditional empirical social network analysis is carefully revised. Despite its many merits in present-day sociolinguistics, it often needs to be supplemented by hermeneutic-biographical analyses of the individual speakers' lives when applied to historical data. With this background, common theories and models of language change, such as grammaticalization, paradigmatic pressure, typological alignment, and generational shifts, are illustrated and evaluated from the point of view of single speakers and social groups, and their particular embedding in the speech community through various network structures.

The book is of interest to advanced students and researchers in English and general linguistics, Middle English, historical linguistics and language change, corpus linguistics, as well as sociolinguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923223
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018310-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092322-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Ditransitives in British English Dialects

Buch 2014

Ditransitives in British English Dialects

Johanna Gerwin

Band 50.3 in dieser Reihe

What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this ‘dative alternation’ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110352320
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035214-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035232-0
ISBN:: 9783110373585
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Volume 2 Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses

Buch 2011

Volume 2 Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses

Nuria Hernández, Daniela Kolbe, Monika Edith Schulz

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects

Band 50.2 in dieser Reihe

This is the second volume of the multi-volume set A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects. The book again offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles. The three parts investigate complement clauses (Daniela Kolbe), personal pronouns (Nuria Hernández) and modals (Monika Edith Schulz). The volume is of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone working on the structure of spontaneous spoken English.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240290
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024028-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024029-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Dialektologie
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Volume 1 Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses

Buch 2005

Volume 1 Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses

Bernd Kortmann, Tanja Herrmann, Lukas Pietsch, Susanne Wagner

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects

Band 50.1 in dieser Reihe

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British Isles. All studies draw heavily on the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), a computerized corpus for predominantly British English dialects comprising some 2.5 million words. Besides an account of FRED and the advantages which a functional-typological framework offers for the study of dialect grammar, the volume includes the following three substantial studies.

Tanja Herrmann's study is the first systematic cross-regional study of relativization strategies for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and four major dialect areas in England. In her research design Hermann has included a number of issues crucial in typological research on relative clauses, above all the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy. Lukas Pietsch investigates the so-called Northern Subject Rule, a special agreement phenomenon known from Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. His study is primarily based on the Northern Ireland Transcribed Corpus of Speech, but also on the FRED and SED data (Survey of English Dialects) for the North of England. Susanne Wagner is concerned with the phenomenon of pronominal gender, focussing especially on the typologically rather unique semantic gender system in the dialects of Southwest England.

This volume will be of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone interested in the structure of spontaneous spoken English.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197518
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018299-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019751-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Dialektologie
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy

Buch 2005

Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy

Challenging Cognitive Semantics

Verena Haser

Band 49 in dieser Reihe

The present book provides a detailed criticism of experientialist semantics, focusing both on philosophical issues connected with experientialism and on cognitive approaches to metaphor and metonymy. Particular emphasis is placed on the works of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, but other cognitivists are also taken into consideration.

Verena Haser proposes a new approach to the distinction between metaphor and metonymy, which contrasts with familiar cognitivist models, but also builds on some insights gained in cognitivist research. She also offers an account of metaphorical transfer which dispenses with the notion of conceptual metaphors in the sense of Lakoff and Johnson. She argues that conceptual metaphors are not a useful construct for explaining metaphorical transfer, and that the clustering of metaphorical expressions is better accounted for in terms of family resemblances between metaphorical expressions. Another major goal of this work is a reassessment of the relationship between experientialism and traditional Western philosophy (often subsumed under the vague term "objectivism").

This book contrasts with most other critical approaches to experientialism by providing close readings of key passages from the works of Lakoff and Johnson, which enables the author to pinpoint theory-internal inconsistencies and other shortcomings not noted in previous publications.

This book will be relevant to students and scholars interested in semantics and cognitive linguistics, and also in psychology and philosophy of language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918243
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018283-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091824-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars

Buch 2004

Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars

Ute Dons

Band 47 in dieser Reihe

The book deals with the development of descriptive models of English grammar writing during the Early Modern English period. For the first time, morphology and syntax as presented in Early Modern English grammars are systematically investigated as a whole. The statements of the contemporary grammarians are compared to hypotheses made in modern descriptions of Early Modern English and, where necessary, checked against the Early Modern English part of the Helsinki Corpus. Thus, a comprehensive overview of the characteristic features of Early Modern English is complemented by conclusions about the descriptive adequacy of Early Modern English grammars. It becomes evident that comments by contemporary authors occasionally reflect the corpus data more adequately than the statements found in modern secondary literature.

This book is useful for (advanced) university students, as well as for scholars of English and grammarians in general.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110906042
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018193-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090604-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Rhythmic Grammar

Buch 2005

Rhythmic Grammar

The Influence of Rhythm on Grammatical Variation and Change in English

Julia Schlüter

Band 46 in dieser Reihe

This groundbreaking book highlights a phonological preference, the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation, as a factor in grammatical variation and change in English from the early modern period to the present. Though frequently overlooked in earlier research, the phonetically motivated avoidance of adjacent stresses is shown to exert an influence on a wide variety of phenomena in morphology and syntax.

Based on in-depth analyses of extensive electronic databases, the book presents 20 exemplary studies from different structural categories. Among them are much-debated as well as novel issues, including the double comparative worser, 'predicative only' a- adjectives, variant past participles, the placement of the degree modifier quite, the order of conjuncts in binomials, the negation of attributive adjectives and sentence adverbs, variable adverbial marking, the use or omission of the infinitive marker, and the a- prefix before - ing forms. The studies provide qualitative and quantitative evidence of the importance of rhythmic alternation in synchronic variation as well as diachronic change, without neglecting interactions with a set of competing functional tendencies. Thus, the book contributes essential aspects to the description and explanation of the phenomena considered, calling for a fundamental revision of current thinking about the interface between phonology and morphosyntax. In addition, the empirical findings are brought to bear on theoretical discussions of more general interest, yielding a critical assessment of the merits and limitations of two nonmodular linguistic theories: Optimality Theory and spreading activation models. The latter type is developed into a comprehensive conception integrating functional factors such as the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation in an overarching framework for language variation and change.

The wide range of subject areas covered makes the volume essential reading and a source of inspiration for linguists with interests as diverse as the phonology-morphosyntax interface, English grammar, the history of English, functional linguistics, Optimality Theory, as well as neuro- and psycholinguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219265
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018607-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021926-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in the History of the English Language II

Buch 2004

Studies in the History of the English Language II

Unfolding Conversations

Anne Curzan, Kimberly Emmons

Band 45 in dieser Reihe

Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. In the volume, scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical English linguistics, including new theories/methods such as Optimality Theory and corpus linguistics, and traditional fields such as phonology and syntax.

In each of the four sections - Philology and linguistics; Corpus- and text-based studies; Constraint-based studies; Dialectology - a key article provides the focal point for a discussion between leading scholars, who respond directly to each other's arguments within the volume. In Section 1, Donka Minkova and Lesley Milroy explore the possibilities of historical sociolinguistics as part of a discussion of the distinction between philology and linguistics. In Section 2, Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Erik Smitterberg provide new research findings on the history and usage of progressive constructions. In Section 3, Geoffrey Russom and Robert D. Fulk reanalyze the development of Middle English alliterative meter. In Section 4, Michael Montgomery, Connie Eble, and Guy Bailey interpret new historical evidence of the pen/pin merger in Southern American English. The remaining articles address equally salient problems and possibilities within the field of historical English linguistics.

The volume spans topics and time periods from Proto-Germanic sound change to twenty-first century dialect variation, and methodologies from painstaking philological work with written texts to high-speed data gathering in computerized corpora. As a whole, the volume captures an ongoing conversation at the heart of historical English linguistics: the question of evidence and historical reconstruction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110897661
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018097-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089766-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Modality in Contemporary English

Buch 2003

Modality in Contemporary English

Roberta Facchinetti, Frank Palmer, Manfred Krug

Band 44 in dieser Reihe

This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides fresh impetus to more general linguistic issues such as grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interplay between sociolinguistic and syntactic constraints. The articles fall into four sections: (a) the semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs; (b) the status of emerging modal items; (c) stylistic variation and change; (d) sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models. The book is of considerable value to students and teachers of English and Linguistics at undergraduate and graduate level worldwide.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110895339
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017686-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089533-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English

Buch 2003

Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English

Günter Rohdenburg, Britta Mondorf

Band 43 in dieser Reihe

What factors influence the choice between alternative grammatical structures such as the following: a lit / a lighted cigarette, more full / fuller of convincing arguments, the main thesis of the book / the book's main thesis, take hostage a group of 15 holiday makers / take a group of 15 holidaymakers hostage, conceding that the argument is convincing / conceding the argument to be convincing? This is the central issue explored in this volume, which contains a unique selection of innovative in-depth empirical studies written in a broadly functional framework. The factors investigated include the following: phonological influences (such as the principle of rhythmic alternation and optimal syllable structure), frequency, pervasive semantic and pragmatic aspects (including iconicity, markedness, grammaticalization and typological tendencies), information structure, processing complexity and horror aequi (the avoidance of identity effects).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110900019
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017647-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090001-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Genitive Variation in English

Buch 2002

Genitive Variation in English

Conceptual Factors in Synchronic and Diachronic Studies

Anette Rosenbach

Band 42 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110899818
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017370-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089981-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Deconstructing the English Passive

Buch 2009

Deconstructing the English Passive

Anja Wanner

Band 41 in dieser Reihe

This book analyzes the form and function of the English passive from a verb-based point of view. It takes the position that the various surface forms of the passive (with or without thematic subject, with or without object, with or without by-phrase, with or without auxiliary) have a common source and are determined by the interplay of the syntactic properties of the verb and general syntactic principles. Each structural element of the passive construction is examined separately, and the participle is considered the only defining component of the passive.

Special emphasis is put on the existence of an implicit argument (ususally an agent) and its representation in the passive. A review of data from syntax, language acquisition, and psycholinguistics shows that the implicit agent is not just a conceptually understood argument. It is argued that it is represented at the level of argument structure and that this is what sets the passive apart from other patient-subject constructions.

A corpus-based case study on the use of the passive in academic writing analyzes the use of the passive in this particular register. One of the findings is that about 20-25% of passives occur in constructions that do not require an auxiliary, a result that challenges corpus studies on the use of the passive that only consider full be-passives. It is also shown that new active-voice constructions have emerged that compete with the passive without having a more visible agent. The emergence of these constructions (such as "This paper argues...") is discussed in the context of changes in the rhetoric of scientific discourse.

The book is mainly of interest to linguists and graduate students in the areas of English syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199215
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019632-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019921-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Funktionale grammatische Theorien
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Valency Dictionary of English

Buch 2004

A Valency Dictionary of English

A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Complementation Patterns of English Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives

Thomas Herbst, David Heath, Ian F. Roe, Dieter Götz, Michael Klotz

Band 40 in dieser Reihe

This dictionary provides a valency description of English verbs, nouns and adjectives. Each entry contains a comprehensive list of the complementation patterns identified on the basis of the largest corpus of English available at the present time. All examples are taken directly from the COBUILD/Birmingham corpus. The valency description comprises statements about the quantitative valency of the lexical units established, an inventory of their obligatory, contextually optional and purely optional complements as well as systematic information on the semantic and collocational properties of the complements. An outline of the model of valency theory used in this dictionary is provided in the introduction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892581
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017194-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089258-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in the History of the English Language

Buch 2002

Studies in the History of the English Language

A Millennial Perspective

Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell

Band 39 in dieser Reihe

The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197143
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017368-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019714-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English

Buch 2002

The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English

An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources

Alexander Kautzsch

Band 38 in dieser Reihe

Based on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, and interviews with hoodoo priests, this book reconstructs the English spoken by African Americans between 1830 and 1920. By means of detailed quantitative analyses, three linguistic features (negation patterns, copula usage, and relative marker choice) are interpreted along the lines of temporal change, regional diversity, and variation across gender. Additionally, some 300 non-standard letters written by African Americans in the 19th century are compared to the main corpus in order to identify differences between speech and writing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907971
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017301-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090797-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Conditionals

Buch 2001

Conditionals

A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis

Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed

Band 37 in dieser Reihe

This book is an extremely detailed and comprehensive examination of conditional sentences in English, using many examples from actual language-use. The syntax and semantics of conditionals (including tense and mood options) and the functions of conditionals in discourse are examined in depth, producing an all-round linguistic view of the subject which contains a wealth of original observations and analyses. Not only linguists specializing in grammar but also those interested in pragmatics and the philosophy of language will find this book a rewarding and illuminating source.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851748
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017144-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085174-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Metre of Beowulf

Buch 2002

The Metre of Beowulf

A Constraint-Based Approach

Michael Getty

Band 36 in dieser Reihe

This book presents a novel treatment of the metre of Beowulf, an Old English epic poem of uncertain date and origin which is nonetheless considered one of the gems of Germanic Alliterative Verse. Building on recent advances in generative linguistics, the analysis presented in this book offers compelling explanations for a wide range of metrical phenomena that have been observed but only poorly understood for over a century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110905410
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017105-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090541-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Placing Middle English in Context

Buch 2000

Placing Middle English in Context

Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, Matti Rissanen

Band 35 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869514
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016780-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086951-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells

Buch 2000

English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells

From Corpus to Cognition

Hans-Jörg Schmid

Band 34 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110808704
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016767-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080870-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast

Buch 2000

Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast

Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Bernd Kortmann

Band 33 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219043
ISBN:: 9783110219043
ISBN:: 9783110166903
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Emerging English Modals

Buch 2000

Emerging English Modals

A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization

Manfred G. Krug

Band 32 in dieser Reihe

This work is essentially based on grammaticalization theory – a branch of linguistics which has gained prominence since the 1980s. It focuses on the interaction between diachrony and synchrony, langue and parole or, for that matter, competence and performance, I–language and Ε–language. It does not see these levels as distinct linguistic domains, as much structurally oriented work does. It is important for the present purposes that such an interactionist view entails that performance effects may over time cause new grammatical code relations. Hence the importance of statistical empirical research, which led the author to adopt a predominantly corpus-based approach.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110820980
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016654-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082098-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Generative Theory and Corpus Studies

Buch 2000

Generative Theory and Corpus Studies

A Dialogue from 10 ICEHL

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

Band 31 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110814699
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016687-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081469-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads

Buch 2003

Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads

A Cognitive Perspective

Antonio Barcelona

Band 30 in dieser Reihe

Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads is a collection of essays, most of them written from a cognitive linguistics standpoint by leading specialists in the fields of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, and conceptual integration (blending). The book has two main goals. One of them is to discuss in new, provocative ways the nature of these conceptual mappings in English and their interaction. The other goal is to explore by means of several detailed case studies the central role of these mappings in English. The studies are, thus, concerned with the operation of metaphor and metonymy in discourse, including literary discourse or with the effect of metaphorical and/or metonymic mappings on some aspects of linguistic structure, be it polysemy or grammar. The book is of interest to students and researchers in English and linguistics, English literature, cognitive psychology and cognitive science.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110894677
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017556-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089467-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Reverse English Dictionary

Buch 1999

Reverse English Dictionary

Based on Phonological and Morphological Principles

Gustav Muthmann

Band 29 in dieser Reihe

Rather than presenting a reverse list of words in endless sequence and strictly alphabetical order, this Reverse English Dictionary considers the structure and formation of words, grouping them together in sections and subdivisions.

This way of looking at words from behind and comparing similar word endings reveals new and unaccustomed aspects of the structure of words and their formation, illustrating the enormous variety of the English language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806847
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016488-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080684-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Morphological Productivity

Buch 1999

Morphological Productivity

Structural Constraints in English Derivation

Ingo Plag

Band 28 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802863
ISBN:: 9783110802863
ISBN:: 9783110158335
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Adverbial Clauses in Scots

Buch 1999

Adverbial Clauses in Scots

A Semantic-Syntactic Study

Martina Häcker

Band 27 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110803822
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015643-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080382-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Negation in the History of English

Buch 1999

Negation in the History of English

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Gunnel Tottie, Wim van der Wurff

Band 26 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806052
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016198-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080605-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Expressivity of Grammar

Buch 1998

The Expressivity of Grammar

Grammatical Devices Expressing Emotion across Time

Axel Hübler

Band 25 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800173
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015780-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080017-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Grammaticalization at Work

Buch 1997

Grammaticalization at Work

Studies of Long-term Developments in English

Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, Kirsi Heikkonen

Band 24 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110810745
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015631-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081074-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: English in Transition

Buch 1997

English in Transition

Corpus-based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles

Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, Kirsi Heikkonen

Band 23 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110811148
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015632-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081114-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Mastering English

Buch 1997

Mastering English

An Advanced Grammar for Non-native and Native Speakers

Carl Bache, Niels Davidsen-Nielsen

Band 22 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110803181
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015535-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080318-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English

Buch 1997

The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English

Johan Elsness

Band 21 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110810264
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014686-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081026-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The French Influence on Middle English Morphology

Buch 1996

The French Influence on Middle English Morphology

A Corpus-Based Study on Derivation

Christiane Dalton-Puffer

Band 20 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110822113
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014990-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082211-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Pragmatic Markers in English

Buch 1996

Pragmatic Markers in English

Grammaticalization and Discourse Functions

Laurel J. Brinton

Band 19 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907582
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014872-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090758-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Spanish Loanwords in the English Language

Buch 1996

Spanish Loanwords in the English Language

A Tendency towards Hegemony Reversal

Félix Rodríguez Gonzáles

Band 18 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110890617
ISBN:: 9783110890617
ISBN:: 9783110148459
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Verbs in Medieval English

Buch 1996

Verbs in Medieval English

Differences in Verb Choice in Verse and Prose

Michiko Ogura

Band 17 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823646
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014426-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082364-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Tense System in English Relative Clauses

Buch 1996

The Tense System in English Relative Clauses

A Corpus-Based Analysis

Ilse Depraetere

Band 16 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869033
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014685-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086903-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Origin of American Black English

Buch 1996

The Origin of American Black English

Be-Forms in the HOODOO Texts

Traute Ewers

Band 15 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823622
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014586-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082362-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Pragmatics of Discourse Anaphora in English

Buch 1994

The Pragmatics of Discourse Anaphora in English

Evidence from Conversational Repair

Ronald Geluykens

Band 14 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110846171
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013416-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084617-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in Early Modern English

Buch 1994

Studies in Early Modern English

Dieter Kastovsky

Band 13 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110879599
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014127-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087959-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Towards a Standard English

Buch 1993

Towards a Standard English

Dieter Stein, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Band 12 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864281
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013697-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086428-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: History of Englishes

Buch 1992

History of Englishes

New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics

Matti Rissanen, Ossi Ihalainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110877007
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013216-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087700-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: New Directions in English Language Corpora

Buch 1992

New Directions in English Language Corpora

Methodology, Results, Software Developments

Gerhard Leitner

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110878202
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013201-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087820-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Small Clauses in English

Buch 1992

Small Clauses in English

The Nonverbal Types

Bas Aarts

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110861457
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013487-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086145-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Preposition Stranding

Buch 1992

Preposition Stranding

From Syntactic to Functional Analyses

Ken-ichi Takami

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110870398
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013376-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087039-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Funktionale grammatische Theorien
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Social Stylistics

Buch 1992

Social Stylistics

Syntactic Variation in British Newspapers

Andreas H. Jucker

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851151
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012969-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085115-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Duration in English

Buch 1991

Duration in English

A Basic Choice, Illustrated in Comparison with Dutch

Lia Korrel

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859942
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012921-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085994-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The History of Final Vowels in English

Buch 1991

The History of Final Vowels in English

The Sound of Muting

Donka Minkova

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110889512
ISBN:: 9783110127638
ISBN:: 9783110889512
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: English Computer Corpora

Buch 1991

English Computer Corpora

Selected Papers and Research Guide

Stig Johansson, Anna-Brita Stenström

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110865967
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012395-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086596-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Historical English Syntax

Buch 1991

Historical English Syntax

Dieter Kastovsky

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863314
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012431-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086331-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Tense and Mood in English

Buch 1990

Tense and Mood in English

A Comparison with Danish

Niels Davidsen-Nielsen

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110860184
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012581-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086018-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

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