English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected Papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7-11 September 2000

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by  Teresa Fanego (Ed.)

ENGLISH HISTORICAL SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
E.F. KONRAD KOERNER
(University of Ottawa)
Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
Advisory Editorial Board
Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles); Lyle Campbell (Christchurch, N.Z.)
Sheila Embleton (Toronto); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh)
Manfred Krifka (Berlin); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin)
E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln)
Volume 223
Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso and Javier Pérez-Guerra (eds)
English Historical Syntax and Morphology
ENGLISH HISTORICAL
SYNTAX AND
MORPHOLOGY
SELECTED PAPERS FROM 11 ICEHL,
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA,
7–11 SEPTEMBER 2000
TERESA FANEGO
MARÍA JOSÉ LÓPEZ-COUSO
University of Santiago de Compostela
JAVIER PÉREZ-GUERRA
University of Vigo
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International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (11th : 2000 : Santiago de Compostela,
Spain)
English historical syntax and morphology : selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela,
7–11 September 2000 / [edited by] Teresa Fanego, Maria José López-Couso, Javier Pérez-Guerra.
p. cm. -- (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current
issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 223)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. English--language--History--Congresses. 2. English language--Grammar, Historical--Congresses.
3. English language--Morphology--Congresses. 4. English language--Syntax--Congresses. I. Fanego,
Teresa. II. López-Couso, Maria José. III. Pérez-Guerra, Javier. IV. Title. V. Series.
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Table of contents
Addresses vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
TeresaFanego
Twotypesofpassivizationof‘V+NP+P’constructionsinrelationto
idiomatization 9
MinojiAkimoto
Onthedevelopmentofafriendofmine 23
CynthiaL.Allen
Historicalshiftsinmodificationpatternswithcomplexnounphrase
structures:Howlongcanyougowithoutaverb? 43
DouglasBiberandVictoriaClark
Grammaticalizationversuslexicalizationreconsidered:Onthelate
useoftemporaladverbs 67
LaurelJ.Brinton
Thederivationofornative,locative,ablative,privativeand
reversativeverbsinEnglish:Ahistoricalsketch 99
DieterKastovsky
Fromgold-gifatochimneysweep?Morphological(un)markednessof
ModernEnglishagentnounsinadiachronicperspective 111
LuciaKornexl
Apathtovolitionalmodality 131
ManfredKrug
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Isit,stylewiseorotherwise,wisetouse-wise?Domainadverbialsand
thehistoryofEnglish-wise 157
UrsulaLenker
Thelossoftheindefinitepronounman:Syntacticchangeand
informationstructure 181
BettelouLos
TheprogressiveinOlderScots 203
AnneliMeurman-Solin
DetransitivizationinthehistoryofEnglishfromasemantic
perspective 231
RuthMöhligandMonikaKlages
Morphologyrecycled:ThePrincipleofRhythmicAlternationat
workinEarlyandLateModernEnglishgrammaticalvariation 255
JuliaSchlüter
Nameindex 283
Subjectindex 289
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Addresses
MinojiAkimoto TeresaFanego
AoyamaGakuinUniversity DepartmentofEnglish
3–12–35Azamino FacultaddeFilología
Aoba-ku UniversidaddeSantiagodeCompostela
Yokohama-shi E-15782SantiagodeCompostela
Kanagawa-ken225–0011 Spain
Japan [email protected]
[email protected]
DieterKastovsky
CynthiaL.Allen InstitutfürAnglistikundAmerikanistik
SchoolofLanguageStudies UniversitätWien
AustralianNationalUniversity UniversitätszentrumAltesAKH
CanberraACT0200 Spitalgasse2–4,Hof8
Australia A-1090Wien
[email protected] Austria
[email protected]
DouglasBiber
DepartmentofEnglish MonikaKlages
NorthernArizonaUniversity EnglischesSeminar
Flagstaff,AZ86011–6032 UniversitätzuKöln
USA Albertus-Magnus-Platz
[email protected] D-50923Köln
Germany
LaurelJ.Brinton
[email protected]
DepartmentofEnglish
UniversityofBritishColumbia LuciaKornexl
#397–1873EastMall InstitutfürAnglistik/Amerikanistik
Vancouver,B.C.V6T1Z1 Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität
Canada Greifswald
[email protected] SteinbeckerStr.15
D-17487Greifswald
VictoriaClark
Germany
DepartmentofEnglish
[email protected]
NorthernArizonaUniversity
Flagstaff,AZ86011–6032
USA
[email protected]
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viii Addresses
ManfredKrug AnneliMeurman-Solin
EnglischesSeminar DepartmentofEnglish
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität UniversityofHelsinki
Postfach P.O.BOX4
D-79085Freiburg Yliopistonkatu3
Germany Helsinki00014
[email protected] Finland
Anneli.Meurman-Solin@helsinki.fi
UrsulaLenker
InstitutfürEnglischePhilologie RuthMöhlig
LMUMünchen EnglischesSeminar
Schellingstr.3RG UniversitätzuKöln
D-80799München Albertus-Magnus-Platz
Germany D-50923Köln
[email protected] Germany
[email protected]
MaríaJoséLópez-Couso
DepartmentofEnglish JavierPérez-Guerra
FacultaddeFilología DepartmentofEnglish,French&
UniversidaddeSantiagodeCompostela German
E-15782SantiagodeCompostela FacultaddeFilologíayTraducción
Spain UniversidaddeVigo
[email protected] CampusAsLagoasMarcosende
E-36200Vigo
BettelouLos
Spain
VakgroepATW
[email protected]
VrijeUniversiteit
DeBoelelaan1105 JuliaSchlüter
1081HVAmsterdam Fachbereich3
TheNetherlands Anglistik—Amerikanistik
[email protected] UniversitätPaderborn
WarburgerStr.100
D-33098Paderborn
Germany
[email protected]
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Acknowledgements
Thisvolumeanditscompanionone(CILT224)wererealizedwiththehelpof
a great many people. First of all, we would like to thank all authors for their
contributions andcooperation. Wearealso greatlyindebted tothefollowing
colleagueswhoactedasanonymousexternalreviewers:ClaireCowie,Dolores
González-Álvarez, Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo, Maurizio Gotti,
Dieter Kastovsky, Ans van Kemenade, Ursula Lenker, Angelika Lutz, Donka
Minkova, Arja Nurmi, Susan Pintzuk, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Herbert
Schendl, Jeremy J. Smith, Erik Smitterberg, Anthony Warner, Irené Wother-
spoon,LauraWrightandWimvanderWurff.
ThanksarealsoduetotheeditorialstaffofJohnBenjamins,inparticular
KonradKoernerforhiscooperation,andAnkedeLooperforhergoodcounsel
inresponsetoourmanyqueries.WeoweaspecialdebtofgratitudetoBelén
Méndez-NayaandElenaSeoane,ourfriendsandcolleaguesattheDepartment
ofEnglishoftheUniversityofSantiagodeCompostela,fortheirclosecollabo-
rationwithusduringtheeditingprocess.Lastbutnotleast,wearegratefulto
theSpanishMinistryofScienceandTechnology(grantno.BFF2001–2914)and
theXuntadeGalicia(grantno.PGIDT01PXI20404PR)forfinancialsupport,
andtoourcolleaguesPalomaNúñez-PertejoandCarlaDechantfortheirhelp
invariousways.
SantiagodeCompostela,October2001
TheEditors