English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology

The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many innovative contributions focused on syntax and morphology. A carefully peer-reviewed selection, including one of the plenary lectures, appears here in print for the first time, bearing witness to the quality of the scholarly interest in this field of research. In all the contributions, well-established methods combine with new theoretical approaches in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. State-of-the-art tools, such as electronic corpora and concordancing software, are employed consistently, ensuring a methodological homogeneity of the contributions. English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume I......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Table of contents......Page 6 Foreword......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 References......Page 15 Part I. Old and Middle English......Page 16 The balance between syntax and discourse in Old English......Page 18 1. A problem in Old English......Page 19 2.1 Adverbs particles as discourse partitioners......Page 23 2.2 More referring expressions......Page 25 2.3 Discourse and syntactic structure in OE......Page 26 3. A quantitative approach......Page 30 3.1 Parameters and values......Page 31 4. Discussion and conclusion......Page 34 References......Page 35 The Old English copula weorðan and its replacement in Middle English ......Page 38 1. Methodological considerations how un representative are the data......Page 41 2. The OE network of copula constructions......Page 44 3. The development of becuman as a copula......Page 50 4. Distributional differences between weor an and becuman explained......Page 56 References......Page 61 Corpora used......Page 63 1. Introduction......Page 64 2.2 The word order patterns......Page 65 2.3 Verb types......Page 67 3. Analysis and discussion......Page 68 3.1 Existential verbs in the XVS pattern......Page 71 3.2 Verbs with complement in the XVS pattern......Page 73 3.3 Verbs with complement in the XSV pattern......Page 76 3.4 Copulas in the SVX pattern......Page 77 References......Page 80 For Old English......Page 81 For Middle English......Page 82 1. Aims and organization......Page 84 2. Background locative durative and focalized progressives and PROG imperfective drift......Page 85 3. Corpus and methodology......Page 90 4.1 Durative focalized and other progressives in Old to Early Modern English......Page 91 4.2 The origin of the progressive......Page 99 5. Conclusion......Page 101 Secondary sources......Page 102 1. Introduction......Page 104 1.1 Gender definition......Page 105 2. Gender in Old English......Page 108 2.1 First type of gender deviance nature over grammar......Page 110 2.2 Second type of gender deviance semantic perspective......Page 112 3. Third type more than one gender related to individuated......Page 113 3.2 Third type of gender deviance specific individuated......Page 115 3.3 Third type of gender deviance agent vs. patient......Page 116 4. Conclusion......Page 118 References......Page 122 1. Introduction......Page 124 2. PDE quantifier all......Page 125 3.1 Eall with full NP......Page 126 3.2 Eall with pronoun......Page 128 3.3 Floating quantifier eall......Page 130 3.4 Other cases......Page 131 3.5 Summary......Page 132 4.1 Quantifier Phrase......Page 133 4.2 Floating quantifier......Page 135 References......Page 138 1. Introduction......Page 140 2.1 Sources......Page 142 2.2 Results......Page 143 2.3 Observations......Page 144 3. Discussion......Page 146 4. Analysis......Page 149 Sources......Page 153 References......Page 154 1. Introduction......Page 156 2. Description of the Corpus......Page 158 3. Syntactic dialectology in Middle English......Page 159 4.1 Description......Page 161 4.2 Distribution......Page 163 5.1 Description......Page 166 5.2 Distribution......Page 168 6. Conclusions......Page 169 References......Page 170 1. Introduction......Page 172 2.1 Origin of particles......Page 174 2.2 Can particles be analysed as predicates......Page 175 2.3.1 Unselected objects......Page 178 2.3.3 Telicity......Page 179 3.1 Path predicates grammaticalize......Page 181 3.2 The defocused complement of Prt......Page 182 3.3 Grounds as fully affected objects......Page 184 4.1 Evidence for grammaticalization......Page 185 4.2 No predicate quirks in OE and ME......Page 186 4.3 Particle verbs in EModE......Page 188 5. Conclusion......Page 191 References......Page 192 Part II. Early and Late Modern English......Page 196 1. Introduction......Page 198 2. Structural types in English deadjectival adverb formation......Page 200 3.1 X ly and Y ly......Page 202 3.2 X and Y ly......Page 203 3.3 X ly and Y......Page 204 3.4 X and Y......Page 205 4.1 Status of asymmetric formation patterns in coordination......Page 206 4.2 Choice of formation type in adverbial coordination Paradigmatic selection......Page 208 4.3 Choice of formation type in adverbial coordination Morphological brachylogy ellipsis......Page 209 4.4 Paradigmatic selection vs. morphological brachylogy Does it have to be either or......Page 210 5. Cross linguistic context......Page 212 Primary sources......Page 214 Secondary sources......Page 215 1. Introduction......Page 218 2. The structure of EModE pronoun focus it ClCs......Page 224 3. The relation between IdCCs and ClCs......Page 227 4. Conclusions......Page 234 References......Page 235 1. Introduction......Page 238 2. The non finite complements of emotion verbs in Present day English......Page 239 3. The historical development of all three construction types......Page 244 4. General and specific predication with a non modalised matrix verb......Page 247 5. Conclusion......Page 253 Primary......Page 254 Secondary......Page 255 1. Introduction......Page 256 2. Subjective and objective meanings of the progressive from Old English to Modern English......Page 258 3. The three types of subjective progressives in Early and Late Modern English......Page 259 3.1 Type 1 Subjective progressive with ALWAYS......Page 261 3.2 Type 2 Subjective progressive without ALWAYS......Page 262 3.3 Type 3 Interpretative progressives......Page 264 4. Objective progressives......Page 265 5. Subjective and objective progressives in the seventeenth and eighteenth century data of ARCHER 2......Page 267 6. The relation between subjectification objectification and grammaticalization......Page 268 References......Page 269 Index of subjects, terms & languages......Page 272 The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY......Page 275 The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, lexis and semantics, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on geo-historical variation in English. A carefully peer-reviewed selection, including two plenary lectures, appears here in print for the first time, bearing witness to the increasing scholarly interest in varieties of English other than so-called 'standard' English. In all the contributions, well-established methods of V. 1. Syntax And Morphology / Edited By Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena, Richard Dury -- V. 2. Lexical And Semantic Change / Edited By Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena -- V. 3. Geo-historical Variation In English / Edited By Marina Dossena, Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.