Bermúdez-Otero Ricardo, Denison David, Hogg Richard M., McCully C.B. (eds.) Generative Theory and Corpus Studies: A Dialogue from 10 ICEHL

Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. — 580 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 31). — ISBN 3110166879, 9783110166873.The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.Structure
Continuity versus discontinuity
Obsolescence and sudden death in syntax: The decline of verb-final order in early Middle English
Cynthia Allen
On the history of relative that
Aimo Seppänen
The complementation of verbs of appearance by adverbs
Nikolas Gisborne
On the use of current intuition as a bias in historical linguistics: The case of the LOOK + -ly construction in English
Kristin Killie
The indefinite pronoun man: "nominal" or "pronominal"?
Linda van Bergen
Form and function
Coordinate deletion, directionality and underlying structure in Old English
Rodrigo Perez Lorido
The position of the adjective in Old English
Olga Fischer
On the history of the s-genitive
Anette Rosenbach, Dieter Stein and Letizia Vezzosi
The passive as an object foregrounding device in early Modern English
Elena Seoane Posse
Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation
Carita Paradis
Text types
Variation and change: Text types and the modelling of syntactic change
Wim van der Wurff
The progressive form and genre variation during the nineteenth century
Erik Smitterberg
The conjunction and in early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts
Jonathan Culpeper and Merja Kytö
Sociolinguistics and dialectology
Processes of supralocalisation and the rise of Standard English in the early Modern period
Terttu Nevalainen
The rise and fall of periphrastic DO in early Modern English, or "Howe the Scots will declare themselv 's"
Arja Nurmi
Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century
Lilo Moessner
Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots
Anneli Meurman-Solin
Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English
Markku Filppula
Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography
Merja Black
Phonology
HappY-tensing: A recent innovation?
Joan Beal
Syllable ONSET in the history of English
Donka Minkova
Name index
Subject index