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Studies in the History of the English Language VIII
Studies in the History of the English Language VIII

Chapters in this book (17)

Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Contributor addresses
Introduction: Boundaries and boundarycrossings in the history of English
Section 1: Conceptual and methodological boundaries
1. Scale and mode in histories of English
2. The blurred boundaries of genres-in-use: Principles and implications from rhetorical genre studies for English historical linguistics
3. Meanderings from early English to World Englishes: A Complex Systems perspective on morphosyntactic changes in wh-pronouns
Section 2: Linguistic boundaries
4. First or best, last not least: Domain edges in the history of English
5. Expanding boundaries of a function word: Uses of one in Early Modern and Modern English
6. Non-correlative commas between subjects and verbs in Early and Late Modern English sermons and scientific texts
7. Old English verbs of envy: Class membership and grammatical behaviour
Section 3: Language and language variety boundaries
8. Germanic /r/ as an isogloss, rhotacism, and the West Germanic gemination
9. Migration, localities, and discourse: Shifting linguistic boundaries in Swedish-American cookbooks
10. Specimen texts and boundaries in the history of the English language
Coda: HEL-bound
Index
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