Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers dedicated to Angus McIntoshJohn A. Anderson The papers in this volume celebrate the work of Angus McIntosh, who specialized in dialects of Later Middle English, and wrote on other topics in English linguistics as well. Of the papers in this volume most deal with English and a few with other subjects in (historical) dialectology. |
Contents
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THE PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE WELSH MUTATIONS | 75 |
HAS EVERY SENTENCE A THEME AND A RHEME? | 97 |
ISOPHONES OR ISOGRAPHS? A PROBLEM IN HISTORICAL DIALECTOLOGY | 117 |
FROM PRIESTLEYS AN INSPECTOR CALLS | 129 |
OWENS Futility AND DAVIES The Garden Party | 239 |
TWO NOTES | 277 |
SIMPLIFYING THE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH | 285 |
A SLAVONICENGLISH COMPARISON | 307 |
COMMUNICATIVE NEEDS IN THE LEARNING AND USE OF ENGLISH | 321 |
GRAMMATICAL DATA BY ELICITATION | 379 |
LATIN FOR OLD ENGLISH IN ANGLOSAXON MANUSCRIPTS | 395 |
WHAND YESNO QUESTIONS CHARLES BUTLERS Grammar 1633 AND THE HISTORY OF A LINGUISTIC CONCEPT | 401 |
THWAITE | 161 |
RHYMES AND REASONS THE PRACTICE OF TWO POETS | 169 |
TWO GEMINATE CONSONANTS IN OLD ENGLISH? | 187 |
THE LAW OF THE ENGLISH FRONTIER | 203 |
SOME ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF THE BE+ING CONSTRUCTION | 427 |
A NOTE ON THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE | 475 |
WRITTEN LANGUAGE AS A HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM | 485 |
Common terms and phrases
BE+ING CONSTRUCTION bilingual BIRLING borrowing catalpa century clause code-switching communication component consonant context cultural Czech Dative DAVIE'S The Garden degree dialectology dialects distinction Dyirbal evidence example expression fact finite verb frequency fricatives function Futility AND DAVIE'S Gaelic geminate genitive grammar grapheme Griffen Iain Indian indicate inflectional INSPECTOR CALLS interrogative intonation involved ISOGRAPHS Jane Austen Jirrbal kind language Latin lexemes lexical linguistic London marked forms Mbabaram McIntosh meaning Middle English modal Modern English morphemes narrative nasal native normal noun phrase novel Nyawaygi occur Old English OWEN'S Futility passive pattern PERF phonaesthetic phonemes phonological phonological system poem present PRIESTLEY'S pronoun question refer relation rhetorical rhyme rule Scottish Gaelic segment semantic sense sentence Slavonic sociolinguistic soft mutation speaker stanza stress structure suggest syllable syntactic thematic theme unmarked usage variation verbal voiced voiceless vowel Warrgamay Welsh words writing Yidiny