Britton Derek (Ed.). English Historical Linguistics 1994

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. — 412 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 135).Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8 ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19–23 September 1994)This volume offers a selection of 19 papers from those read at the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics in Edinburgh. Many of the writers are established authorities in the field, but there are also significant contributions from a younger generation of scholars. The topics discussed span the whole history of English from the Common Germanic period to the present century and the book also includes, as appropriate to the Conference venue, a number of papers on aspects of the historical development of Scots and Scottish English.Phonology
Tertiary stress in Old English: Some Reflections on explanatory inadequacy - Richard M. Hogg
Verse structure as evidence for prosodic reconstructions in Old English - Donka Minkova
On the syllable weight -VC# in Old English: A metrical perspective - Seiichi Suzuki
Old English short diphthongs and the theory of Glide emergence - Robert P. Stockwell
On the use of the past to explain the present - April McMahonMorphology
Verbal derivation in English: A historical survey or much ado about nothing - Dieter Kastovsky
Snowball effect in lexical diffusion: The development of -s in the third person singular present indicative in English - Mieko Ogura and William S-Y. Wang
The 3rd plural present indicative in early modern English: Variation and linguistic contact - Herbert Schendl
Morphological standardization: The strong verbs in Scots - Manfred GörlachLexis
Scandinavian loans and processes of word-formation in ME: Some preliminary considerations - Isabel Moskowich and Elena Seoane
Towards syntactic isomorphism and semantic dissimilation: The semantics and syntax of prospective verbs in early modern English - Edgar W. SchneiderSyntax
Evidence for clitic adverbs in old English: An evaluation - Willem F. Koopman
Verbal complementation in early ME: How do the infinitives fit in? - Olga Fischer
A look at the That/Zero variation in Restoration English - María José López-Couso
The case of the unmarked pronoun - David DenisonSociohistorical Linguistics
Social stratification in Tudor English? - Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
Social network theory and Eighteenth-century English: The case of boswell - Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Eighteenth-century normative grammar in practice: The case of Captain Cook - Carol Percy
The Jocks and the Geordies: Modified standards in Eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries - Joan C. Beal