English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 (eBook)

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Alexander Bergs, University of Osnabrück, Germany; Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Preface to the Handbook of English Historical Linguistics 11
Acknowledgments 15
In memoriam 17
General abbreviations 19
IX. Resources 23
71. Early textual resources 23
72. Electronic/online resources 35
73. Lexicographic resources 53
74. Teaching perspectives 67
75. Textbooks 82
76. Online resources for teaching 94
X. Interdisciplinarity and Historiography 105
77. Literature 105
78. Music as a language – the history of an idea 118
79. Periodization in the history of the English language 137
80. Myths of the English language or, alternative histories of “English”
81. Spoken and written English – orality and literacy 178
XI. History of English Historical Linguistics 193
82. Overview 193
83. The historiography of the English language 199
84. North America 217
85. Germany and the German-speaking countries 229
86. The Netherlands and Belgium 245
87. Northern Europe 258
88. East-Central and Eastern Europe 279
89. Southern Europe 301
90. Asia - Minoji Akimoto 318
XII. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods 325
91. Historical dialectology 325
92. Historical sociolinguistics 342
93. Historical pragmatics 361
94. Information structure and syntax in the history of English 379
95. The actuation problem revisited 394
96. Corpus linguistics 413
97. Frequency and language change 435
98. Lexical diffusion 450
99. Grammaticalization 462
100. Lexicalization 481
101. Diachronic change and language acquisition 503
102. Generative approaches to English historical linguistics 517
103. Construction Grammar 535
104. Lexical Functional Grammar 550
XIII. English in Contact 563
105. German and Dutch 563
106. French 575
107. Celtic and Celtic Englishes 591
108. Latin 607
109. Greek 623
110. Norse 628
111. English in contact with other European languages 642
112. Native American Languages 657
113. Pidgins and creoles 671
114. Middle English creolization 685
115. African American English (AAE) early evidence 697
XIV. Varieties of English 713
116. American English 713
117. Re-viewing the origins and history of African American Language 730
118. Regional varieties of American English 743
119. Canadian English in real-time perspective 762
120. Standard British English 783
121. Received Pronunciation 803
122. Estuary English 817
123. Regional varieties of British English Christian Langstrof 832
124. Scots 855
125. English in Ireland 865
126. English in Wales 881
127. Australian/New Zealand English 899
128. Cockney 917
129. Diffusion 935
130. Dialect contact 948
131. Supraregionalization 964
XV. Second-Language Varieties 981
132. English in India 981
133. English in Africa – a diachronic typology 996
134. Second-language varieties of English 1010
135. English-based Creoles 1024
136. Global English 1039
Index 1055