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Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English
What factors influence the choice between alternative grammatical structures such as the following: a lit / a lighted cigarette, more full / fuller of convincing arguments, the main thesis of the book / the book's main thesis, take hostage a group of 15 holiday makers / take a group of 15 holidaymakers hostage, conceding that the argument is convincing / conceding the argument to be convincing? This is the central issue explored in this volume, which contains a unique selection of innovative in-depth empirical studies written in a broadly functional framework. The factors investigated include the following: phonological influences (such as the principle of rhythmic alternation and optimal syllable structure), frequency, pervasive semantic and pragmatic aspects (including iconicity, markedness, grammaticalization and typological tendencies), information structure, processing complexity and horror aequi (the avoidance of identity effects).
Late Modern English Syntax
Using increasingly sophisticated databases, this volume explores grammatical usage from the Late Modern period in a broad context.
One Language, Two Grammars?
This volume focuses on British-American differences in the structure of words and sentences. The first full-length treatment of the topic, it will be of interest to scholars working within the fields of English historical linguistics, language variation and change, and dialectology.
Genre in English Medical Writing, 15001820
This multidisciplinary volume offers new insights into the development of genres of medical discourse in changing socio-cultural contexts.
Borrowings in Informal American English
Based on a rich range of sources, this pioneering book provides a comprehensive description of informal borrowings in American English.
The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax
This volume showcases the contributions that formal experimental methods can make to syntactic research in the 21st century. Syntactic theory is both a domain of study in its own right, and one component of an integrated theory of the cognitive neuroscience of language. It provides a theory of the mediation between sound and meaning, a theory of the representations constructed during sentence processing, and a theory of the end-state for language acquisition. Given the highly interactive nature of the theory of syntax, this volume defines "experimental syntax" in the broadest possible terms, exploring both formal experimental methods that have been part of the domain of syntax since its ince...
Binomials in the History of English
Based on a workshop organized at the 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, held in Leuven in July 2014.
Standardising English Spelling
With a particular focus on the Early Modern English period, this book explores the standardisation of English spelling.
Rhythmic Grammar
This groundbreaking book highlights a phonological preference, the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation, as a factor in grammatical variation and change in English from the early modern period to the present. Though frequently overlooked in earlier research, the phonetically motivated avoidance of adjacent stresses is shown to exert an influence on a wide variety of phenomena in morphology and syntax. Based on in-depth analyses of extensive electronic databases, the book presents 20 exemplary studies from different structural categories. Among them are much-debated as well as novel issues, including the double comparative worser, 'predicative only' a- adjectives, variant past participles, the p...
Transforming Early English
Considers how medieval English and Scots texts were re-worked in later centuries, and the implications for philological theory and practice.
