Research Catalog

Title

English historical linguistics, 1992 : papers from the Seventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-7) : Valencia, 22-26 September 1992 / edited by Francisco Fernández, Miguel Fuster, Juan José Calvo.

Author

International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (7th : 1992 : Valencia, Spain)

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Fernández, Francisco.
• Fuster, Miguel.
• Calvo, Juan José.

Description

viii, 388 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 113

Uniform Title

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 113.

Subjects

• English language > History > Congresses
• English language > Grammar, Historical > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Linguistics, Philology, Chickens and Eggs / Richard Hogg -- Can Catastrophe Theory Provide Adequate Explanations for Linguistic Change? An application to syntactic change in English / Enrique Bernardez -- Postdisciplinary Philology: Culturally relativistic pragmatics / Roger Sell -- Premisses and Periods in a History of English / Norman Blake -- Linguistic Reality of Middle English / Jacek Fisiak -- Old English Stress: Amorphous? / Fran Colman -- The Great Vowel Shift Revisited / Trinidad Guzman -- Towards a Standard Written English? Continuity and change in the orthographic usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393-1464) / Peter Lucas -- On the Writing of the History of Standard English / Laura Wright -- Grammatical Choices in Old and Early Middle English: A choice between a simple verb, the prefix/particle-verb or verb-particle combination, and the "auxiliary + infinitive" construction in Old and early Middle English / Michiko Ogura.
• Subject Extraction in English: The use of the that-complementizer / Gunnar Bergh and Aimo Seppanen -- The Modals Again in the Light of Historical and Cross-Linguistic Evidence / Juan Manuel De la Cruz -- OE and ME Multiple Negation: Some syntactic and stylistic remarks / Gabriella Mazzon -- [phi]-relatives with Antecedent thaet and Free Relatives in OE and ME / Concha Castillo -- Be vs. Have with Intransitives in Early Modern English / Merja Kyto -- Infinitive Marking in Early Modern English / Teresa Fanego -- Dog - Man's Best Friend: A study in historical lexicology / Lilo Moessner -- Emotions in the English Lexicon: A historical study of a lexical field / Hans-Jurgen Diller -- The Scandinavian Element in the Vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle / Veronika Kniezsa -- Productive or Non-productive? The Romance eement in Middle English derivation / Christiane Dalton-Puffer -- Remarks on the Origin and Evolution of Abbreviations and Acronyms / Felix Rodriguez and Garland Cannon.
• "Ase roser when hit redes": Semantic shifts and cultural overtones in the Middle English colour lexicon / Nicola Pantaleo -- Prototype Categories and Variation Studies / Helena Raumolin-Brunberg -- What does the Jungle of Middle English Manuscripts Tell Us? On ME words for 'every' and 'each' with special reference to their many variants / Leena Kahlas-Tarkka -- Ladies and Gentlemen: The generalization of titles in Early Modern English / Terttu Nevalainen -- On the Evolution of Scientific Writings from 1375 to 1675: Repertoire of emotive features / Irma Taavitsainen -- Multiple Authorship of the OE Orosius / Sakari Louhivaara -- "After a Copye unto Me Delyverd": Multiple negation in Malory's Morte Darthur / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.

ISBN

1556195672 (alkaline) :

LCCN

93044795

OCLC

• 214431723
• ocn214431723

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries