Studies in the History of the English Language II

Anne Curzan is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.Kimberly Emmons is Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

• Section 1: Linguistics and philology Introduction: Linguistics and philology Anne Curzan and Kimberly EmmonsPhilology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w] Donka MinkovaAn essay in historical sociolinguistics?: On Donka Minkova's "Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w]" i>Lesley MilroyA brief response Donka MinkovaWhy we should not believe in short diphthongs David L. WhiteExtended forms (Streckformen) in English Anatoly LibermanLinguistic change in words one owns: How trademarks become "generic" Ronald R. Butters and Jennifer Westerhaus Section 2: Corpus- and text-based studiesIntroduction: Corpus- and text-based studies Anne Curzan and Kimberly EmmonsThe meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network Susan M. FitzmauriceInvestigating the expressive progressive: On Susan Fitzmaurice's "The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network" Erik SmitterbergA brief response Susan M. FitzmauriceModal use across registers and time Douglas BiberThe need for good texts: The case of Henry Machyn's Day Book, 1550-1563 Richard W. BaileyThe perils of firsts: Dating Rawlinson MS Poet. 108 and tracing the development of monolingual English lexicons Ian Lancashire Section 3: Constraint-based studiesIntroduction: Constraint-based studies Anne Curzan and Kimberly EmmonsThe evolution of Middle English alliterative meter Geoffrey RussomOld English poetry and the alliterative revival: On Geoffrey Russom's "The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter" Robert D. FulkA brief response Geoffrey RussomA central metrical prototype for English iambic tetrameter verse: Evidence from Chaucer's octosyllabic lines Xingzhong LiEarly English clause structure change in a stochastic optimality theory setting Brady Z. ClarkThe role of perceptual contrast in Verner's Law Olga Petrova Section 4: DialectologyIntroduction: Dialectology Anne Curzan and Kimberly EmmonsHistorical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English Michael Montgomery and Connie EbleDigging up the roots of Southern American English: On Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble's "Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English" Guy BaileyA brief response Michael Montgomery and Connie EbleVowel merger in west central Indiana: A naughty, knotty problem Betty S. PhillipsThe spread of negative contraction in early English Richard M. Hogg