Books written by D. Gary Miller

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  Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change

  Stanford : Center for the Study of Language and Information . Butterworth , Brian , Bernard CoMRiE , and OsrEN Dahl ( eds . ) ( 1984 ) . Explanations for Language Universals . The Hague : Mouton . Bybee , Joan L. ( 1985 ) .

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  Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge

  Watt (1987:1fi) states: (1) the number of empty cells is minimal; (2) the chance of just any random order of letters fitting such a grid is infinitesimally small; (3) reversing any two letters would complicate the matrix; ...

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  Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge

  The book's value is further enhanced by thorough discussion of the issues from a broad range of theoretical and applied viewpoints, including language play and change, cognition, literacy, and cultural history.

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  English Lexicogenesis

  ... volt [1873] / voltaic [1812] (Alessandro Volta [1745–1827]), watt [1882] (James Watt [1736–1819]). 6.9 English-specific eponymy The English language is fond of remembering people eponymically. Many common objects bear noble names.

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  The Oxford Gothic Grammar

  Willis , David W. E. , Lucas , Christopher , & Breitbarth , Anne ( eds ) . ( 2013 ) . The Development of Negation in the Languages of Europe , Vol . 1 : Case Studies . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Willmott , Jo . ( 2007 ) .

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  English Lexicogenesis

  Walinska de Hackbeil, Hanna (1983). X categories in morphology. In Richardson et al. (1983: 301–13). Walinska de Hackbeil, Hanna (1985). En-prefixation and the syntactic domain of zero derivation. Berkeley Linguistics Society 11:337–57.

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  Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors: Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer, with Notes on Lyric and Herodotus

  In this volume, by means of dialectally and chronologically arranged illustrative texts, translated and provided with running commentary, some of the early Greek authors are compared against epigraphic records, where available, from the ...

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  External Influences on English: From Its Beginnings to the Renaissance

  In this fascinating history of the influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation the author shows when and why the Anglo-Saxons began to borrow words from Latin and Greek and the effects of contact with the Vikings, ...

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  Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English: and Their Indo-European Ancestry

  This is the fullest account ever published of Latin suffixes in English.

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  Complex Verb Formation

  Miller's insightful treatment of questions of lexical decomposition, the relationship of morphology to syntax, and the encoding of argument structure on verbs make this a work of the utmost importance for syntacticians as well as ...

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  Language Change and Linguistic Theory: Volume I. Approaches, Methodology, and Sound Change

  This book investigates a large range of changes and their motivations in all parts of the grammar and lexicon.

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  Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English: And Their Indo-European Ancestry

  ... phlegmatic') LIMPITUDE [1623] limpitudo [cé] cleanness' (limpidus clear; LIMPID' |1613]) LONGITUDE [Ch.) longitudo length' (longus long < *dl-on-gho- [*del-l 'long'] HLFL 112) MAGNITUDE [?aI425] magnitudo [Cicero] greatness;&nbsp;...

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  The Oxford Gothic Grammar

  aiws * ( M –a- , lx -i- $ 3.2 ) ' time ; age ; long time ; ( n ) ever ' ( in aiwins ' into the eons ; forever ... EDG 72f . , EDPG 23 , LHE2 143 ) alls ( ADJ STR -a- ) all = ON allr , OS , OHG al ( l ) , OE eall , northern all all < Gmc&nbsp;...

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  External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance

  This book provides the fullest account ever published of the external influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation.

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  Language Change and Linguistic Theory: Approaches, Methodology, and Sound Change / Morphological, Syntactic, and Typological Change

  This two volume work examines every aspect of language change and two centuries of linguistic approaches towards understanding it.

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  Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English and Their Indo-European Ancestry

  This volume explores the rich variety of English words formed by the addition of one or more Latin suffixes, such as -ial, -able, and -id.

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  Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English: and Their Indo-European Ancestry

  Aim and Coverage The objective of this work is to provide a reliable taxonomy and brief historical account of the major Latin suffixal derivatives in English. An updated treatment has been needed because (1) more is currently known&nbsp;...