Late modern English : novel encounters / edited by Merja Kytö, Erik Smitterberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 pragmatics; this makes the collection attractive to any scholar or student interested in the history of English. Each of the four thematic sections in the book represents a core area of Late Modern English studies. This division makes it easy for specialists to access the chapters that are of immediate relevance to their own work. An introductory chapter establishes connections between chapters within as well as between the four sections. The volume highlights recent advances in research methodology such as spelling normalization and other areas of corpus linguistics; several contributions also shed light on the interplay of internal and external factors in language change"-- Provided by publisher.

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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.

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