"Based on a rich set of historical data, this book traces the development of pragmatic markers in English, from hw't in Old English and whilom in Middle English to whatever and I'm just saying in present-day English. Laurel J. Brinton carefully maps the syntactic origins and development of these forms, and critically examines postulated unilineal pathways, such as from adverb to conjunction to discourse marker, or from main clause to par ..."
"The English Language: A Linguistic History is designed as a core text for classes in the history of the English language, offered through the English or linguistics department. Beginning with a discussion of how language changes, the book examines historical change in English from its Indo-European past through its major periods (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English). This is an introductory text: it doe ..."
"The English Language: A Linguistic History surveys the development of the English language from its Indo-European past to the present day. It covers the entire history of the English language beginning with its prehistoric origins in Proto-Indo-European and includes thorough coverage of its four major periods: Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English. The third edition features enhanced discussion of the so ..."
"Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has been viewed by syntacticians as the reverse process of grammaticalization, by morphologists as a routine process of word-formation, and by semanticists as the development of concrete meanings. In this up-to-date survey, Laurel Brinton and Elizabeth Traugott examine the various ..."
"How was the speech of others represented in the nineteenth-century novel? This volume answers these questions and more by providing an overview of the field of English historical pragmatics."
English Historical Linguistics(Reprint) Approaches and Perspectives by LaurelJ. Brinton Paperback, 444 Pages, Published 2017 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-53421-6, ISBN: 1-107-53421-6
The Comment Clause in English(Reprint) Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development (Studies in English Language) by Professor LaurelJ. Brinton Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-40501-1, ISBN: 1-107-40501-7
The Comment Clause in English(1st Edition) Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development (Studies in English Language) by Professor LaurelJ. Brinton Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2008 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-88673-4, ISBN: 0-521-88673-2
English Historical Linguistics Approaches and Perspectives by LaurelJ. Brinton Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2017 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-11364-0, ISBN: 1-107-11364-4
"Written by an international team of leading scholars, this engaging textbook on the study of English historical linguistics is uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches and perspectives. Each chapter features textboxes, case studies, suggestions for further reading and exercises, enabling students to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and guiding them on undertaking further research. The case studies an ..."
The Structure of Modern English A linguistic introduction by LaurelJ. Brinton Paperback, 357 Pages, Published 2000 by John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-1-55619-662-1, ISBN: 1-55619-662-8
"The Structure of Modern English is an extensive introduction to all aspects of Modern English structure, including: Phonology Morphology Lexical and sentence semantics Syntax PragmaticsThis text is for advanced undergraduate (and graduate) students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school education, English stylistics, theoretica ..."
"... Journal of Virginia, Vol. XXI [https://books.google.ca/books? id=
OxYSAAAAYAAJ]), thus arguing against Enge's proposed source (in Liberman
2012). 26 Interestingly, a search for I'm saying in the second part of A corpus of
Irish English (drama, novels and varia from1600–present) yields 48 examples, all
from plays by Synge, suggesting that while this construction may be Irish, it is
limited or idiosyncratic to some extent. (My tha ..."
"Hopper, Paul J. l990. Where do words come from? In Croft, Denning, and
Kemmer, eds., l5l-l60. Hopper. Paul J. l99l. On some principles of
grammaticization. In Traugott and Heine, eds.. Vol. I, l7-35. Hopper. Paul J. l994.
Phonogenesis. In Pagliuca, ed., 29—45. Hopper. Paul J. and Sandra A.
Thompson. l985. The iconicity of "noun" and "verb". In John Haiman. ed.. Iconicity
in Syntax. l5l-l83. (Typological Studies in Language. 6.) Ams ..."
"This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school education, English stylistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, or speech pathology. The emphasis is on empirical facts of English rather than any particular theory of linguistics; the text does not assume any background in langu ..."