TY - BOOK AU - Kemenade, Ans Van TI - The Handbook of the History of English SN - 9781405187862 U1 - U09 PY - 2009/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Blackwell Publishig N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; Part I Approaches and Issues 1 1 Change for the Better? Optimality Theory versus History 3 APRIL McMAHON 2 Cuing a New Grammar 24 DAVID W. LIGHTFOOT 3 Variation and the Interpretation of Change in Periphrastic Do 45 ANTHONY WARNER 4 Evolutionary Models and Functional-Typological Theories of Language Change 68 WILLIAM CROFT Part II Words: Derivation and Prosody 93 5 Old and Middle English Prosody 95 DONKA MlNKOVA 6 Prosodic Preferences: From Old English to Early Modern English 125 PAULA FIKKERT, B. ELAN DRESHER, AND ADITI LAHIRI 7 Typological Changes in Derivational Morphology 151 DIETER KASTOVSKY 8 Competition in English Word Formation 177 LAURIE BAUER Part III Inflectional Morphology and Syntax 9 Case Syncretism and Word Order Change CYNTHIA L. ALLEN 10 Discourse Adverbs and Clausal Syntax in Old and Middle English ANS VAN KEMENADE AND BETTELOU Los 11 The Loss of OV Order in the History of English SUSAN PINTZUK AND ANN TAYLOR 12 Category Change and Gradience in the Determiner System DAVID DENISON Part IV Pragmatics 305 13 Pathways in the Development of Pragmatic Markers in English 307 LAUREL BRINTON 14 The Semantic Development of Scalar Focus Modifiers 335 ELIZABETH CLOSS TRAUGOTT 15 Information Structure and Word Order Change: The Passive as an Information-rearranging Strategy in the History of English 360 ELENA SEOANE Part V Pre- and Post-colonial Varieties 393 16 Old English Dialectology 395 RICHARD HOGG 17 Early Middle English Dialectology: Problems and Prospects 417 MARGARET LAING AND ROGER LASS 18 How English Became African American English 452 SHANA POPLACK 19 Historical Change in Synchronic Perspective: The Legacy of British Dialects SALI A. TAGLIAMONTE 20 The Making of Hiberno-English and Other "Celtic Englishes" 507 MARKKU FILPPULA Part VI Standardization and Globalization 537 21 Eighteenth-century Prescriptivism and the Norm of Correctness 539 INGRID TIEKEN-BOON VAN OSTADE 22 Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change 558 TERTTU NEVALAINEN 23 Global English: From Island Tongue to World Language 589 SUZANNE ROMAINE ER -