Crossing Linguistic Boundaries: Systemic, Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in English

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nTables\nFigures\nContributors\nPreface\nIntroduction\n	1. A polyhedral gaze on variation\n	2. Tensioning the system\n	3. Synchronic and diachronic variation\nPart One Tensioning the System\n	1 Prosodic Templates in English Idioms and Fixed Expressions\n		1. Introduction1\n		2. Prosody in English\n		3. A taxonomy of prosodic templates\n		4. Conclusion\n		Notes\n		References\n	2 Word-search as Word- formation? The Case of uh and um1\n		1. Introduction\n		2. The Santa Barbara Corpus study\n		3. Discussion\n		Notes\n		Corpora\n		References\n	3 Demonstratives Licensed by Cultural Co-presence1\n		1. Introduction\n		2. Demonstratives licensed by shared cultural scenarios\n		3. Predicative use of proximal demonstratives\n		4. Conclusion\n		Notes\n		References\n	4 The Fall and Rise of English any\n		1. Introduction\n		2. Any in Old and Modern English\n		3. Why the frequency of any declined but rose again during the Early Middle English period\n		4. Conclusion\n		Notes\n		Corpora\n		References\n	5 Revisiting ‘ it-extraposition’: The Historical Development of Constructions with Matrices (it)/( there ) be + Noun Phrase followed by a Complement Clause1\n		1. Introduction\n		2. Extraction and compilation of corpus datasets\n		3. Complementation constructions with (it)/(there) be + NP in Old English\n		4. The development of complementation constructions with it be wonder and there be doubt from Middle to Present-day English\n		5. Conclusion\n		Notes\n		Corpora\n		References\n	6 On Grammatical Change and Discourse Environments1\n		1. Introduction2\n		2. Historical Linguistics and Discourse Traditions\n		3. Discourse organization and the verb in English and Spanish\n		4. Syntactic elaboration processes in Spanish and English\n		5. Conclusions\n		Notes\n		Corpora\n		References\n	7 Grammaticalizing Adverbs of English: The Case of still\n		1. Introduction\n		2. The development of English sentence adverbs\n		3. Still in Present-day English\n		4. Still over the Modern English period\n		5. Still and models of language change\n		6. Conclusion\n		Notes\n		Corpora\n		References\nPart Two Synchronic and Diachronic Variation\n	8 How British is Gibraltar English?1\n		1. Introduction\n		2. Data and questionnaire structure\n		3. Explorative data analysis\n		4. Rater means, individual items and sociolinguistic factors\n		5. Discussion and aspects of globalization\n		Appendix A . Gibraltar version of the Bamberg Questionnaire (lexical part only)\n		Appendix B . Correlations of mean ratings of individual items and seven age groups in GibE: Americanization (negative correlations) vs. Britishization (positive correlations)\n		Appendix C . Americanization vs. Britishization in Gibraltar English: apparent-time trends for all items (ordered by strength and polarity of correlation; seven age groups)\n		Notes\n		References\n	9 Singular they in Asian Englishes: A Case of Linguistic Democratization 1\n		1. Introduction\n		2. Singular they : Diachronic and synchronic considerations\n		3. English in India, Hong Kong and Singapore: Development and language contact\n		4. Methodology\n		5. Results\n		6. Discussion and conclusions\n		Notes\n		Corpora\n		References\n	10 It is Important that Mandatives (should) be studied across Different World Englishes and from a Construction Grammar Perspective1\n		1. Introduction\n		2. Previous research on mandative constructions: Variation and change in World Englishes\n		3. Data and methodology\n		4. Results\n		5. Summary of the results\n		6. World Englishes and variationist construction grammar\n		Notes\n		Corpora\n		References\n	11 The Stative Progressive in Singapore English: A Panchronic Perspective 1\n		1. Introduction\n		2. The historical situation\n		3. The use of stative progressives in international dialects: An overview\n		4. Previous research on stative progressives in Singapore English\n		5. Have-progressives in the Flowerpod Corpus\n		6. Discussion\n		7. Conclusions\n		Notes\n		Corpora\n		References\nIndex