{"title":"Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden (eds.), Reconnecting form and meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse (Studies in Language Companion Series 230). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2023. Pp. 305 + vii. ISBN 9789027212993.","authors":"Gerard O’Grady","doi":"10.1017/s1360674323000618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674323000618","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504961,"journal":{"name":"English Language and Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140964174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A quantitative exploration of the functions of auxiliary do in Middle English","authors":"LORENZO MORETTI","doi":"10.1017/s1360674324000030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674324000030","url":null,"abstract":"One of the questions that still surrounds the history of auxiliary do is what function it had during the Middle English period (c.1100–1500). Scholars have put forward different hypotheses, suggesting that it could serve, among others, as a perfective marker (Denison 1985), agentive marker (Ecay 2015) and habitual marker (Garrett 1998). The present article reports on a quantitative study that aims to shed further light on this issue. By means of a collexeme analysis, this article investigates the semantic features of the infinitives that occur with auxiliary do in several Middle English corpora. The results show that auxiliary do was not connected to verbs with specific semantic profiles, but it was employed in different contexts and had various functions. Specifically, the data suggest that auxiliary do was used (i) as an accommodation tool to facilitate the use of low-frequency verbs, particularly of French origin, and (ii) as an aspectual particle to mark both perfectivity and habituality. It is argued that the multifunctionality of auxiliary do in Middle English played a crucial role in the preservation of the construction before it spread to the NICE (i.e. negation, inversion, code and emphasis) environments.","PeriodicalId":504961,"journal":{"name":"English Language and Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140962871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ole Schützler, Concessive constructions in varieties of English (Language Variation 9). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2023. Pp. viii + 270. ISBN 9783961104222.","authors":"T. Bossuyt","doi":"10.1017/s1360674324000054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674324000054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504961,"journal":{"name":"English Language and Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140995113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elnora ten Wolde, The English binominal noun phrase: A Cognitive-Functional approach (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xx + 310. ISBN 9781108921893.","authors":"Carmen Portero Muñoz","doi":"10.1017/s1360674324000078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674324000078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504961,"journal":{"name":"English Language and Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers (eds.), Earlier North American Englishes (Varieties of English Around the World G66). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. viii + 261. ISBN 9789027210876.","authors":"Charles F. Meyer","doi":"10.1017/s136067432300059x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s136067432300059x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504961,"journal":{"name":"English Language and Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140223875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elizabeth Peterson, Turo Hiltunen and Joseph Kern (eds.), Discourse-pragmatic variation and change: Theory, innovations, contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xxviii + 332. ISBN 9781108836203.","authors":"Lieven Buysse","doi":"10.1017/s1360674323000655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674323000655","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504961,"journal":{"name":"English Language and Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140222911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ruth Kircher and Lena Zipp (eds.), Research methods in language attitudes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xix + 409. ISBN 9781108867788.","authors":"Erik Schleef","doi":"10.1017/s1360674323000473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674323000473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504961,"journal":{"name":"English Language and Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140239181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Salikoko S. Mufwene, John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey and John Baugh (eds.), African-American English: Structure, history and use (Routledge Linguistics Classics). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021. Pp. xvi + 368. ISBN 9780367760687.","authors":"Walter F. Edwards","doi":"10.1017/s136067432300045x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s136067432300045x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504961,"journal":{"name":"English Language and Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140251952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geoff Lindsey, English after RP: Standard British pronunciation today. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xvi + 153. ISBN 9783030043568.","authors":"Kate Hammer","doi":"10.1017/s1360674323000643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674323000643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504961,"journal":{"name":"English Language and Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140078103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Susanne Mühleisen, Genre in World Englishes: Case studies from the Caribbean (Varieties of English Around the World, G67). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. viii + 229. ISBN 9789027211385.","authors":"Dagmar Deuber","doi":"10.1017/s1360674323000680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674323000680","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504961,"journal":{"name":"English Language and Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140077957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}