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An Historic Tongue (RLE: English Language): Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang book cover

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An Historic Tongue (RLE: English Language) Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang

Edited By Graham Nixon, John Honey Copyright 1988
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume, first published in 1988, represents in its papers the wide-ranging yet coherent linguistic interests of the late Barbara Strang (1925-1982). For her, the history of English and its current state were two sides of the same coin, and the principle theme of this collection is that neither one may be properly understood without invoking the other. It is a ‘real-data’ collection, in that... Read more

Contributors;  Preface;  Foreword;  In Memoriam Barbara Strang;  Part 1: Old to Middle English Period;  1. The Difficulty of Establishing Borrowings Between Old English and the Continental West Germanic Languages  2. Cyn(e)wulf Revisted: The Problem of the Runic Signatures  3. Snuck: The Development of Irregular Preterite Forms  4. Ambiguous Negations in Chaucer and Queen Elizabeth  5. Goodbye to All ‘That’? The History and Present Behaviour of Optional ‘That’  6. The Rise of the For NP to V Construction: An Explanation  7. Negation in Shakespeare  8. Englishmen and Their Moods: Renaissance Grammar and the English Verb;  Part 2: Middle to Modern English Period;  9. The Great Vowel-Shift and Other Vowel-Shifts  10. Thematic Genitives  11. The Discourse Properties of the Criminal Statute  12. Varietas Delectat: Forms and Functions of English Around the World  13: ‘Talking Proper’: Schooling and the Establishment of English ‘Received Pronunciation’  14. The Methods of Urban Linguistics Surveys  15. A Bibliography of Barbara Strang

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