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English Historical Linguistics 1992
Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22-26 September 1992
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Main description:This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia.The book opens with a general section, which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe theory, Roger Sell suggests a pragmatic analysis of historical data, and Norman Blake and Jacek Fisiak re-open the debate on periodization in the history of English. The rest of the papers is grouped in four sections: Phonology and Writing, Morphology and Syntax, Lexicology and Semanti...
Main description:
This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia.
The book opens with a general section, which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe theory, Roger Sell suggests a pragmatic analysis of historical data, and Norman Blake and Jacek Fisiak re-open the debate on periodization in the history of English. The rest of the papers is grouped in four sections: Phonology and Writing, Morphology and Syntax, Lexicology and Semantics, and Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts. An index of names and a subject index complete the volume.
Table of contents:
- Editors' Foreword
- I. General Issues
- Linguistics, Philology, Chickens and Eggs
- Can Catastrophe Theory Provide Adequate Explanations for Linguistic Change? An application to syntactic change in English
- Postdisciplinary Philology
- Premisses and Periods in a History of English
- Linguistic Reality of Middle English
- II. Phonology and Writing
- Old English Stress
- The Great Vowel Shift Revisited
- Towards a Standard Written English? Continuity and change in the orthographic usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393'1464)
- On the Writing of the History of Standard English
- III. Morphology and Syntax
- Grammatical Choices in Old and Early Middle English
- Subject Extraction in English
- The Modals Again in the Light of Historical and Cross-Linguistic Evidence
- OE and ME Multiple Negation
- ø-relatives with Antecedent @ and Free Relatives in OE and ME
- Be vs. Have with Intransitives in Early Modern English
- Infinitive Marking in Early Modern English
- IV Lexicology and Semantics
- Dog 2; Man's Best Friend
- Emotions in the English Lexicon
- The Scandinavian Element in the Vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle
- Productive or Non-productive? The Romance element in Middle English derivation
- Remarks on the Origin and Evolution of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 'Ase roser when hit redes'
- V. Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts
- Prototype Categories and Variation Studies
- What does the Jungle of Middle English Manuscripts Tell Us? On ME words for 6;every' and 6;each' with special reference to their many variants
- Ladies and gentlemen
- On the revolution of scientific writings from 1375 to 1675
- Multiple authorship of the OE Orosius
- 'After a copye unto Me Delyverd'
- VI. Indexes
- Index nominum
- Index rerum
This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia.
The book opens with a general section, which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe theory, Roger Sell suggests a pragmatic analysis of historical data, and Norman Blake and Jacek Fisiak re-open the debate on periodization in the history of English. The rest of the papers is grouped in four sections: Phonology and Writing, Morphology and Syntax, Lexicology and Semantics, and Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts. An index of names and a subject index complete the volume.
Table of contents:
- Editors' Foreword
- I. General Issues
- Linguistics, Philology, Chickens and Eggs
- Can Catastrophe Theory Provide Adequate Explanations for Linguistic Change? An application to syntactic change in English
- Postdisciplinary Philology
- Premisses and Periods in a History of English
- Linguistic Reality of Middle English
- II. Phonology and Writing
- Old English Stress
- The Great Vowel Shift Revisited
- Towards a Standard Written English? Continuity and change in the orthographic usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393'1464)
- On the Writing of the History of Standard English
- III. Morphology and Syntax
- Grammatical Choices in Old and Early Middle English
- Subject Extraction in English
- The Modals Again in the Light of Historical and Cross-Linguistic Evidence
- OE and ME Multiple Negation
- ø-relatives with Antecedent @ and Free Relatives in OE and ME
- Be vs. Have with Intransitives in Early Modern English
- Infinitive Marking in Early Modern English
- IV Lexicology and Semantics
- Dog 2; Man's Best Friend
- Emotions in the English Lexicon
- The Scandinavian Element in the Vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle
- Productive or Non-productive? The Romance element in Middle English derivation
- Remarks on the Origin and Evolution of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 'Ase roser when hit redes'
- V. Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts
- Prototype Categories and Variation Studies
- What does the Jungle of Middle English Manuscripts Tell Us? On ME words for 6;every' and 6;each' with special reference to their many variants
- Ladies and gentlemen
- On the revolution of scientific writings from 1375 to 1675
- Multiple authorship of the OE Orosius
- 'After a copye unto Me Delyverd'
- VI. Indexes
- Index nominum
- Index rerum