Variation in expressing the past in "The Proceedings of the Old Bailey"
| Thesis title in Czech: | Jazyková variace ve vyjadřování minulosti v soudních záznamech z Old Bailey ("The Proceedings of the Old Bailey") |
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| Thesis title in English: | Variation in expressing the past in "The Proceedings of the Old Bailey" |
| Key words: | anglický jazyk historická lingvistika diachronie předpřítomný čas prostý minulý čas předminulý čas soudní záznamy z Old Bailey proces |
| English key words: | English language historical linguistics diachrony present perfect past simple past perfect Old Bailey Proceedings trial |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2012/2013 |
| Thesis type: | diploma thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD) |
| Supervisor: | prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 01.07.2013 |
| Date of assignment: | 01.07.2013 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 10.09.2013 |
| Date and time of defence: | 14.09.2015 00:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 13.08.2015 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 14.09.2015 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | Mgr. Jiřina Popelíková |
| Guidelines |
| The thesis will look into the variation in expressing pluperfect and perfect and into the changes that resulted in a shifted use of the perfective forms between the seventeenth and the twentieth century. From the residua of pluperfect in the past simple context, it seems that the nineteenth century adhered to some old patterns, which could be explored in the corpus of spoken and written English of the Old Bailey Proceedings. The findings might bring contextual clues of the changes that are suggested to happen mainly from the middle of the eighteenth century and that were mostly finished by the end of the nineteenth century. |
| References |
| Bailey, Richard W. (1996) Nineteenth-century English. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Biber, Douglas et al. (1999) Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman. Denison, David (1993) English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions. London: Longman. Quirk, Randoph, et al. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language.London: Longman. Görlach, Manfred (1999) English in Nineteenth-century England: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Huddleston, Rodney D., and Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2002) The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kemenade, Ans van, and Los, Bettelou (2009) The Handbook of the History of English. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Lass, Roger (1999) The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 3, 1476-1776. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Leech, Geoffrey N. (1987) Meaning and the English Verb. London: Longman. Romaine, Suzanne (1998) The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol.4, 1776-1997. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Visser, F. (1973) An Historical Syntax of the English Language, Part Three, Second Half, Syntactical units with two and with more verbs. Leiden: E. J. Brill. Source The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/index.jsp |