Late modern English novel encounters
"The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2020.
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| Edition: | Book edition. |
| Series: | Studies in language companion series,
volume 214 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Late Modern English studies into the twenty-first century / Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
- Part I. Phonology: "A received pronunciation": Eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries and the precursors of RP / Joan Beal
- The interplay of internal and external factors in varieties of English / Raymond Hickey
- Part II. Morphosyntax: The myth of American English 'gotten' as a historical retention / Lieselotte Anderwald
- Changes affecting relative clauses in Late Modern English / Julia Bacskai-Atkari
- Diffusion of do: The acquisition of do negation by have (to) / Tomoharu Hirota
- A diachronic constructional analysis of locative alternation in English, with particular attention to load and spray / Yasuaki Ishizaki
- Part III. Orthography, vocabulary and semantics: In search of "the lexicographic stamp": George Augustus Sala, slang and Late Modern English dictionaries / Rita Queiroz de Barros
- "Divided by a common language"? The treatment of Americanism(s) in Late Modern English dictionaries and usage guides on both sides of the Atlantic / Ulrich Busse
- Women writers in the 18th century: The semantics of motion in their choice of perfect auxiliaries / Nuria Calvo Cortés
- Eighteenth-century French cuisine terms and their semantic integration in English / Julia Landmann
- Spelling normalisation of Late Modern English: Comparison and combination of VARD and character-based statistical machine translation / Gerold Schneider
- Part IV. Pragmatics and discourse: A far from simple matter revisited: The ongoing grammaticalization of far from / Laurel J. Brinton and Tohru Inoue
- What it means to describe speech: Pragmatic variation and change in speech descriptors in Late Modern English / Peter J. Grund
- Being Wilde: Social representation of the public image of Oscar Wilde / Minna Nevala and Arja Nurmi
- "I am desired (...) to desire": Routines of power in the British Colonial Office correspondence on the Cape Colony (1827-1830) / Matylda Włodarczyk.