مطالعات تنوع و تغییر زبانی 3

عنوان فارسی:        مطالعات تنوع و تغییر زبانی 3: تحقیقات مبتنی بر پیشینه نحو و کلام انگلیسی

عنوان انگلیسی:      Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change 3: Corpus-based Research in English Syntax and Lexis

This volume brings together contributions tracing the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its long history, from its beginnings in Old English to the present day. It addresses issues in a variety of fields ranging from semantics and morphosyntax to the interface between syntax and phonology, using a number of different theoretical standpoints. As such, the text reflects a diversity of approaches to corpora, and will serve to improve the reader’s (TM)s understanding of some of the many developments and alterations that have affected English. It will be of interest to all scholars and students working on the history of English, as well as students of historical linguistics in general.

Introduction

Part I: Morphosyntactic Variation in Two Different Varieties of English
Subject-Verb Concord in the Letters of Virginian Soldiers during the Civil War
The Distribution of the Definite Article in Early Middle English: Explaining the Variation

Part II: Developments and Alternations in Medieval English
What the Emergent DP Brought About: The Emergence of the Double Object Construction in English
Word Order Change, Stress Shift and Old French Loanwords in Middle English
The Vulnerability of Old English Verb Semantic Classes in Middle English
Information Structural Effects on Direct Object Scrambling Constructions