The Handbook of the History of English (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)

__The Handbook of the History of English__ is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. * organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems * surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology * offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research Content: Chapter 1 Change for the Better? Optimality Theory versus History (pages 2–23): April McMahonChapter 2 Cuing a New Grammar (pages 24–44): David W. LightfootChapter 3 Variation and the Interpretation of Change in Periphrastic Do (pages 45–67): Anthony WarnerChapter 4 Evolutionary Models and Functional?Typological Theories of Language Change (pages 68–91): William CroftChapter 5 Old and Middle English Prosody (pages 94–124): Donka MinkovaChapter 6 Prosodic Preferences: From Old English to Early Modern English (pages 125–150): Paula Fikkert, Elan B. Dresher and Aditi LahiriChapter 7 Typological Changes in Derivational Morphology (pages 151–176): Dieter KastovskyChapter 8 Competition in English Word Formation (pages 177–198): Laurie BauerChapter 9 Case Syncretism and Word Order Change (pages 200–223): Cynthia L. AllenChapter 10 Discourse Adverbs and Clausal Syntax in Old and Middle English (pages 224–248): Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou LosChapter 11 The Loss of OV Order in the History of English (pages 249–278): Susan Pintzuk and Ann TaylorChapter 12 Category Change and Gradience in the Determiner System (pages 279–304): David DenisonChapter 13 Pathways in the Development of Pragmatic Markers in English (pages 306–334): Laurel BrintonChapter 14 The Semantic Development of Scalar Focus Modifiers (pages 335–359): Elizabeth Closs TraugottChapter 15 Information Structure and Word Order Change: The Passive as an Information?rearranging Strategy in the History of English (pages 360–391): Elena SeoaneChapter 16 Old English Dialectology (pages 394–416): Richard HoggChapter 17 Early Middle English Dialectology: Problems and Prospects (pages 417–451): Margaret Laing and Roger LassChapter 18 How English Became African American English (pages 452–476): Shana PoplackChapter 19 Historical Change in Synchronic Perspective: The Legacy of British Dialects (pages 477–506): Sali A. TagliamonteChapter 20 The Making of Hiberno?English and Other “Celtic Englishes” (pages 507–536): Markku FilppulaChapter 21 Eighteenth?century Prescriptivism and the Norm of Correctness (pages 538–557): Ingrid Tieken?Boon van OstadeChapter 22 Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change (pages 558–588): Terttu NevalainenChapter 23 Global English: From Island Tongue to World Language (pages 589–608): Suzanne Romaine

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language.

• organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems
  
• surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology
  
• offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language.

• organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems
  
• surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology
  
• offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research

Features a collection of articles that focuses on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. This title surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology.