Lieselotte Anderwald

Kiel University | CAU · Englisches Seminar

This chapter has thirteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Second Language Acquisition; 12. English as a Lingua Fr...

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This chapter has the following sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics (not present this year); 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Second Language Acquisitio...

This chapter has fourteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Second Language Acquisition; 12. English as a Lingua Fr...

This chapter has fourteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology (not covered this year); 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Second Language Acquisition. 12...

This chapter has thirteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Second Language Acquisition. 12. English as a Lingua Fr...

Reciprocal and reflexive ('middle') readings of the get-passive (as in get introduced, get married, get dressed or get shaved) have been taken as indicative of the status of the get-passive as a middle construction more generally. Historically, this interpretation is misleading, as these (marginal) get-passives refer to cultural practices that have...

This collection of papers applies the concept of enregisterment to a variety of languages and dialects, many of which have not been discussed in this framework before. Thus there are analyses of Pittsburgh English (Barbara Johnstone), Sheffield English (Joan C. Beal), of the use of British dialects in pop music (Johanna Gerwin), of creole languages...

This chapter has thirteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology and Lexical Semantics; 8. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 9. New Englishes and Creolistics; 10. Second Language Acquisition. 11. English as a Lingua Franca; 12. Pragmat...

Based on data from COCA and COHA, this article provides a corpus study of constructions with loving it (they’re loving it, he was loving every minute of it, … and loving it) in present-day and historical American English. It argues that loving it fulfils a double function: it interprets a specific part of the previous discourse, and adds evaluation...

This article shows that, despite undergoing significant language change, the Progressive Active was never criticized in prescriptive grammars of English in the nineteenth century. Even more unexpectedly, in British grammars it became a symbol of national superiority over the classical language and English and French, and was praised for making Engl...

This chapter has fourteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Second Language Acquisition; 12. English as a Lingua Fr...

This article investigates the variation between past-tense forms burned/burnt, dwelled/dwelt, dreamed/dreamt, and the like historically with the help of the Corpus of Historical American English and asks whether prescriptive grammars in the nineteenth century may have influenced the development of regular forms as a present-day morphological Americ...

This chapter has ten sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Semantics; 5. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 6. Onomastics; 7. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 8. New Englishes and Creolistics; 9. Second Language Acquisition; 10. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis. Section 1 is by Vere...

In this chapter, I expand in a quantitative way on the valuable qualitative work that has so far been done on the topic of historical grammar writing, and link my findings to facts about language change that historical corpus-linguistic studies have produced (for qualitative work on grammar writing, or work concentrating on individual authors, see...

This article connects the quantitative study of grammaticography with a more traditional corpus-linguistic investigation of the progressive passive. Based on a careful analysis of over 250 grammars of English published during the nineteenth century in Britain and the US, I will try to answer the question whether prescriptivism has had any influence...

The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such as methods for quantifying the linguistic variatio...

Since the end of the 1990s, we have been calling for an integration of typological methods and insights into dialectological enterprises (e.g. Kortmann 1999; Anderwald and Kortmann 2002; Kortmann 2003, 2004). This new perspective informed among other things the Freiburg project on ‘English Dialect Syntax from a Typological Perspective’ (2000 to 200...

This chapter has fourteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Second Language Acquisition; 12. English as a Lingua Fr...

This paper investigates five morphological Americanisms in their diachronic development since 1810 on the basis of data from the Corpus of Historical American English, namely the past tense forms of THRIVE, DIVE, PLEAD, DRAG, and SNEAK. THRIVE is a clear case of an irregular verb becoming regular; in the other four lexemes (DIVE, PLEAD, DRAG and SN...

This article investigates the development of two groups of strong verbs, clustering around sing/sang/sung and sling/slung/slung, in written American English over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Especially during the nineteenth century, there is a massive reduction in variability in past-tense forms; typically, in the first gro...

This paper relates comments in British and American prescriptive grammars over the course of the 19th century to actual developments in language change of the time. Strikingly different evaluations of features demonstrably undergoing change, or indeed a complete lack of evaluations, are connected directly to two factors in linguistic reality: the s...

This chapter has ten sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Semantics; 5. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 6. Onomastics; 7. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 8. New Englishes and Creolistics; 9. Second Language Acquisition; 10. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis. Section 1 is by Vere...

In this article I discuss the persistence of non-standard past tense forms in traditional and modern dialect data in the face of strong prescriptive norms against such non-standard forms. Past tense forms like she drunk or they sung are still encountered frequently, although prescriptive grammars have militated against such usage for over a century...

In this article, I argue that at least in some subsets of grammar, non-standard dialects are indeed more natural than their standard counterparts. I present data from the new Freiburg English Dialect corpus FRED, for the first time comparing and quantifying traditional dialect data from across the whole of Great Britain. The most frequent non-stand...

Where do dialects differ from Standard English, and why are they so remarkably resilient? This new study argues that commonly used verbs that deviate from Standard English for the most part have a long pedigree. Analysing the language use of over 120 dialect speakers, Lieselotte Anderwald demonstrates that not only are speakers justified historical...

This chapter has eleven sections: 1. General; 2. Phonetics and Phonology; 3. Morphology; 4. Syntax; 5. Semantics; 6. Lexicography, Lexicology and Lexical Semantics; 7. Onomastics; 8. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 9. New Englishes and Creolistics; 10. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; 11. Stylistics. Section 1 is by Evelien Keizer; section 2 i...

This chapter has twelve sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; 12. Stylistics. Section...

When, after almost two years of preliminary research, the actual compilation of FRED started in March 2000, the Freiburg team had had enough time to think about, discuss, consider possible and dismiss impossible research questions and devise a list of objectives for which the finished corpus should be suitable.1 The research tradition of other Frei...

On the basis of data from the new Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED) and data from the internet, this paper investigates the use of non-standard past tense forms for a group of verbs similar in shape to (and including) drink and ring. In traditional dialect data from across Great Britain, non-standard past tense forms are highly frequent for th...

This chapter has twelve sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; 12. Stylistics. Section...

This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical research into the development of English negation and analyses of syntactic variations in Present-day English negation. The first part "Aspects of Negation in the History of English" includes s...

Standard English permits both auxiliary contraction and negative contraction for a range of auxiliary verbs. Generally, negative contraction is more widespread, and verbs which permit auxiliary contraction also permit negative contraction (but not the reverse). The exception is I’m not, where a negative contracted form (*I amn’t) is missing. While...

This chapter has eleven sections: 1. History of English Linguistics; 2. Phonetics and Phonology; 3. Morphology; 4. Syntax; 5. Semantics; 6. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 7. Onomastics; 8. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 9. New Englishes and Creolistics; 10. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; 11. Stylistics. Section 1 is by Cam...

In this paper, I will try to answer the question of why older traditional dialect forms are being supplanted by non-standard forms in general use rather than the relevant Standard English forms, even though Standard English is available too. The inspiration for this investigation is provided by the recently established research paradigm combining f...

This chapter has twelve sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; 12. Stylistics. Section...

This chapter has twelve sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; 12. Stylistics. Section...

In this article, the past tense system of the verb to be in modern informal spoken British English is investigated. Variation is endemic, but an in-depth investigation across individual dialect areas shows that three generalization strategies can be distinguished. Of these, two lead to a straightforward simplification of the system ( was -generaliz...

This chapter has twelve sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; 12. Stylistics. Section...