CONTENTS
List of figures = ⅹ
List of tables = xi
List of contributors = xii
General Editor's Preface = xiii
Editor's acknowledgements = xvii
Contributors' acknowledgements = xviii
List of abbreviations = xix
1 INTRODUCTION / Suzanne Romaine = 1
1.1 From Old English to New Englishes：unity in diversity? = 1
1.2 1776 and after：an age of revolutions and empires = 6
1.3 Shifting centres of gravity and the notion of a common core = 22
1.4 Language, nation, and identity：staking a claim on the past and future = 48
1.5 Conclusion : a remarkable success story? = 54
Further reading = 56
2 VOCABULARY / John Algeo = 57
2.1 The study of the English vocabulary = 57
2.2 The growth of the vocabulary = 61
2.3 Creating as a source of new words = 66
2.4 Shifting as a source of new words = 66
2.5 Shortening as a source of new words = 71
2.6 Composing as a source of new words = 74
2.7 Blending as a source of new words = 76
2.8 Borrowing as a source of new words = 76
2.9 Recent neologisms = 82
2.10 Vocabulary change as a mirror of cultural change = 88
Further reading = 91
3 SYNTAX / David Denison = 92
3.1 Introduction = 92
3.2 The noun phrase = 96
3.3 The verbal group = 130
3.4 Elements of the clause = 212
3.5 Structure of the clause = 235
3.6 Composite sentences = 255
Notes = 312
Textual sources = 323
Further reading = 326
4 ONOMASTICS / Richard Coates = 330
Preamble = 330
4.1 Sources for British names = 332
4.2 Scholarship = 336
4.3 Personal names = 339
4.4 Surnames = 348
4.5 Place-names = 350
4.6 Street-names = 365
4.7 Other categories of nameables = 370
4.8 Academic writings on names = 371
Further Reading = 371
5 PHONOLOGY / Michael K. C. MacMahon = 373
5.1 The soundscapes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries = 373
5.2 The historical sources and their interpretation = 375
5.3 Methods of phonetic ／ phonological analysis = 381
5.4 Standards and styles of pronunciation = 382
5.5 Vowel systems = 403
5.6 Vowel phonotactics (structural) = 418
5.7 Vowel phonotactics (lexical-incidental) = 438
5.8 Vowel realisations = 448
5.9 Consonant systems = 467
5.10 Consonant phonotactics (structural) = 469
5.11 Consonant phonotactics (lexical-incidental) = 483
5.12 Consonant realisations = 486
5.13 Lexical stress = 492
5.14 Intonation and rhythm = 517
5.15 Voice qualities = 519
5.16 Conclusions = 520
Notes = 522
Further reading = 535
6 ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE / Edward Finegan = 536
6.1 Introduction = 536
6.2 First period：mid eighteenth century-1830 = 540
6.3 Second period：1830-1930 = 557
6.4 Third period：1930-present = 579
6.5 Conclusions and prospects = 585
Further reading = 587
7 LITERARY LANGUAGE / Sylvia Adamson = 589
7.1 Introduction = 589
7.2 Breaking the standard = 598
7.3 Breaking the pentameter = 614
7.4 The breaking of hypotaxis = 630
7.5 The problem of metaphor = 646
7.6 Self-expression and self-representation = 661
7.7 CODA：the two revolutions and the literary common core = 679
Further reading = 681
Key to the numbered examples = 684
Key to the cited authors = 689
Glossary of linguistic terms = 693
Bibliography = 708
Index = 762
