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Laurel J Brinton and Alexander Bergs Eds The History of English Volume 3 - photo 1

Laurel J. Brinton and Alexander Bergs (Eds.)

The History of English

Volume 3

ISBN 978-3-11-052276-1 e-ISBN PDF 978-3-11-052532-8 e-ISBN EPUB - photo 2

ISBN 978-3-11-052276-1

e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-052532-8

e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-052296-9

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2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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Abbreviations
ACCaccusative case
ACTactive
ADJadjective
ADVadverb
ANAnglo-Norman
Angl.Anglian
AUXauxiliary
Cconsonant
COMPRcomparative
DATdative case
DEMdemonstrative
DUdual
EModEEarly Modern English
EWSax.Early West Saxon
FEMfeminine
Fr.French
GENgenitive case
Ger.German
Gk.Greek
Go.Gothic
Grmc.Germanic
IEIndo-European
IMPimperative
INDindicative
INFinfinitive
INFLinflected
INSTRinstrumental case
Kent.Kentish
LAEMEA Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English
LALMEA Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English
Lt.Latin
LModELate Modern English
LWSax.Late West Saxon
MASCmasculine
MEMiddle English
MEDMiddle English Dictionary
ModEModern English
NEGnegative
NEUTneuter
Nnoun
NOMnominative case
NPnoun phrase
Oobject
OBJobjective case
OEOld English
OEDOxford English Dictionary
OFr.Old French
OHGOld High German
ONOld Norse
Pperson
PASSpassive
PASTpast tense
PDEPresent-day English
PGrmc.Proto-Germanic
PIEProto-Indo-European
PLplural
PREPpreposition
PRONpronoun
PRTCparticiple
PRESpresent tense
PRETpreterit
Ssubject
SGsingular
SUBJsubjunctive mood
SUPsuperlative
SOVsubject-object-verb word order
SVOsubject-verb-object word order
Ttense
Vverb
V 2verb second
Vvowel
VOverb-object word order
VPverb phrase
WGrmc.West Germanic
WSax.West Saxon
>changes to, becomes
<derives from
no ending
*reconstructed form, ungrammatical form
< >spelling

Laurel J. Brinton and Alexander Bergs

Chapter 1:
Introduction

Laurel J. Brinton: Vancouver (Canada)

Alexander Bergs: Osnabrck (Germany)

1English Language Studies

The study of the English language has a lengthy history. The second half of the 18th century saw a phenomenal increase in the number of published grammars of the vernacular language, while the field of comparative linguistics arising in the 19th century was concerned in large part with the Germanic languages, including English. Moreover, in the field of theoretical linguistics that English has played a truly central role. While there are no reliable statistics, it seems safe to say that the majority of studies in contemporary linguistics deal at least in part with English, and are also written in English.

During the 20th century, monumental works concerned with the English language, both synchronic and diachronic, were produced, following historical/comparative and more contemporary linguistic approaches. In keeping with developments on the field of general linguistics, today it is possible to find descriptions and analyses of the history and development of English from virtually any linguistic perspective: external, internal, generative, functional, socio-linguistic, pragmatic, comparative, phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, semantic. There are numerous Histories of English to cater to just about every (theoretical) taste, as well as detailed descriptions of historical periods, language levels, or theoretical frameworks of English and specialized studies of individual topics in the development of the language.

Work on the history of English has culminated most recently in the a series of edited handbooks and histories of English: the six-volume Cambridge History of the English Language , edited by Richard M. Hogg (19922001), The Handbook of the History of English , edited by Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los (2006), The Oxford History of English , edited by Lynda Mugglestone (2012 [2006]), The Oxford Handbook of the History of English , edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Terttu Nevalainen (2012), the two-volume English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook , edited by Alexander Bergs and Laurel J. Brinton (2012), and most recently The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics , edited by Piva Pahta and Merja Kyt (2015).

While study of the history of any language begins with texts, increasingly scholars are turning to dictionaries and corpora of English that are available online or electronically. The third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary online, while still undergoing revision, is now fully integrated with the Historical Thesaurus . The Middle English Dictionary , completed in 2001, is freely available online along with the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse . The pioneer historical corpus of English, The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts , was first released to scholars in 1991. The Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus , containing all Old English texts, is searchable online. ARCHER, A Representative Corpus of English Registers 1650 1900 , accessible at a number of universities, provides a balanced selection of historical texts in electronic form. COHA, a 400-million-word, balanced Corpus of Historical American English 1810 2009 , was launched online in 2010. Smaller corpora, such as the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560 1760 , the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts , the Corpus of Early English Correspondence , the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing , the Corpus of Late Modern English 3.0 , and the newly expanded Old Bailey Corpus , have made more specialized corpora covering more periods and more text types available to scholars. Archives of historical newspapers online, including the Zurich English Newspaper Corpus and the Rostock Newspaper Corpus , provide another source of electronic data. Finally, syntactically annotated corpora for historical stages of English are being produced, including The York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry, The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose, The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English , and The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English . (For information on all of the corpora listed here, see http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/).

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