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A study of the stabilisation of the XSV pattern This book presents the results of a corpus-based study of the surface order of subject and finite verb in 17th century English, covering declarative main clauses starting with a non-subject element. The aim of the study is to examine English word order as reflected in the corpus and the diachronic changes that may be evident during the period concerned. An important part of the presentation consists in detailed descriptions of the various word order patterns that emerge. Additionally, the data is analysed pragmatically with respect to the information structure of sentences, thus trying to establish to what extent the sequential organization of a sentence depends on the information structure of the sentence elements. The investigation shows the situation with regard to word order in 17th century English to be in many respects unsettled, and the stabilisation of the XSV order emerges as an uneven process. A recurrent feature of the data is a wave-like development of the XVS order over time, suggesting that the decline of the XVS order with the eventual stabilisation of XSV is not a unidirectional process with one pattern regularly increasing at the expense of the other, rather it appears to have progressed by leaps and bounds.Bjørg Bækken is Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Bergen.

The focus of the present study is the subject modifier in sentences like She sadly read the letter. In this type of construction Present English (i.e. 20th-century English) seems to prefer adverbs; it appears, however, that historically other elements are used as well. It has been claimed that the Early Modern English period (c. 1500-1700) is generally a transitional period in terms of adverbial usage. The present study tries to determine whether Early Modern English adverb usage is unstable with respect to the function in question. The book also dicusses how the relevant function is realized in Present Norwegian, as well as in some earlier types of English. Additionally, topics such as adverbial orientation and distribution are touched upon, and these two factors in combination are claimed to partly explain the adverbialization of the construction discussed. Kristin Killie was born in 1967. In 1993 she received her cand. philol. degree (in English) from the University of Tromsø, where she is presently working. Tromsø Studies in Linguistics 13.

In 1991 I published a first volume of English Wyclif Tracts, 1-3 (Oslo, 1991). -If possible?, I said then, -three more will follow in a second volume?. After my retirement I have found time to prepare an edition of the tracts Of Confession, Of Pseudo-Friars, and Of Dominion, all three linguistically linked to the previous three tracts. These six tracts are probably the most likely to be associated with the name of John Wyclif. I base this assertion on my linguistic examination of them. The editions are meant for linguistic study, and they should be judged accordingly.

A Dictionary of Northumbrian English 1928-1939This book presents the material of the Orton Corpus, which is a collection of dialect material from Northumberland, Tync and Wear, and County Durham, recorded in the period 1928-1939 as part of a survey of the phonology of Northumbrian dialects. The project was initiated and directed by Harold Orton, who later became co-founder (with Eugen Dieth of Zürich) and director of the Survey of English Dialects, and the collection is named after him. The material of this extensive corpus is now published for the first time. The introduction contains an outline of the history of Orton´s Northumbrian survey, an overview of localities and informants, and a description of the sources and the nature of the material. There is also a thorough discussion of editorial principles as well as explanations of the phonetic transcription and the method of presentation. The main part of the book is an alphabetical dictionary of the material of the Orton Corpus. The dictionary includes over 8000 headwords and some 46000 phonetic entries, and contains a wealth of information about traditional Nortumbrian speech at a time when it remained relatively unaffected by outside influence. The material constitutes an indispensable source of reference for scholars and others with an interest in the pronunciation of Northumbrian English, and of Northern English in general. Kurt Rydland is professor of English Language in the Department of English at the University of Bergen.

The purpose of the present study is to map the development of English sentence adverbials, and to describe and analyze their use and non-use in Old English, Middle English, and Early and Late Modern English. In addition an attempt is made to show that sentence adverbials have developed from other types of adverbials (primarily intensifiers and manner adverbials) by means of syntactic/pragmatic blends and shifts. Indeed, such shifts are shown to take place in Present-day English as well. The study is based on a corpus of around 9000 pages covering these periods. Only prose texts have been included, though several different genres or categories are represented. Tromsø-studier i språkvitenskap 10");
INSERT INTO `materie` (`ISBN`,`boktekst`) VALUES ("82-7099-140-6","Syntaksbindet i serien Studier i norsk språkvitenskap/Studies in Norwegian Linguistics er redigert etter de samme prinsipper som bind 1-3 (Fonologi/Phonology 1981, Prosodi/Prosody 1983, Morfologi/ Morphology 1985). Syntaks/Syntax omfatter 22 artikler av i alt 19 forskere, i tillegg innledning og bibliografi over norsk syntaks ved redaktørene. Artiklene spenner i tid fra 1847 til 1988, og viser sentrale lingvistiske teoriretninger anvendt på norsk språkmateriale. 13 artikler er skrevet på norsk, 9 på engelsk. Følgende forskere er representert i dette bindet: John Ole Askedal, Valerij P. Berkov, Einar Bruaas, Kirsti Koch Christensen, Bernt Fossestøl, Thorstein Fretheim, Jan Terje Faarlund, Per-Kristian Halvorsen, Eskil Hanssen, Lars Hellan, Ernst Håkon Jahr, Alfred Jensen, Svein Lie, Einar Lundeby, Knud Knudsen, Trygve Knudsen, Olav Næs, Leif Sletsjøe, Knut Tarald Taraldsen. Studier i norsk språkvitenskap/ Studies in Norwegian Linguistics 4.