Language History and Linguistic Modelling : : A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on his 60th Birthday / / ed. by Raymond Hickey, Stanislav Puppel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adamska-Sałaciak, Arleta,; Anderson, John,; Avila, Carmela Nocera,; Awedyk, Wiesław,; Breivik, Leiv Egil,; Campbell, Lyle,; Coates, Richard,; Coleman, Julie,; Colman, Fran,; Cruz, Juan M. de la,; Diensberg, Bernhard,; Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna,; Filppula, Markku,; Fischer, Andreas,; Fischer, Olga,; Foster, Tony,; Gotti, Maurizio,; Gvozdanović, Jadranka,; Hewson, John,; Hickey, Raymond,; Hogg, Richard M.,; Iwasaki, Haruo,; Kahlas-Tarkka, Leena,; Kemenade, Ans van,; Kitson, Peter R.,; Klemola, Juhani,; Kniezsa, Veronika,; Koopman, Willem F.,; Kristensson, Gillis,; Krygier, Marcin,; Kytö, Merja,; Lucas, Peter J.,; Markus, Manfred,; Mańczak, Witold,; Minkova, Donka,; Moessner, Lilo,; Morse-Gagné, Elise E.,; Nagucka, Ruta,; Nakao, Toshio,; Nevalainen, Terttu,; Nevanlinna, Saara,; Nierfeld, Theo Vennemann gen.,; Niwa, Yoshinobu,; Ogura, Mieko,; Oizumi, Akio,; Pahta, Paivi,; Plotkin, Vulf Y.,; Posner, Rebecca,; Poussa, Patricia,; Ramisch, Heinrich,; Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena,; Rissanen, Matti,; Ritt, Nikolaus,; Rydén, Mats,; Sandred, Karl Inge,; Sauer, Hans,; Schendl, Herbert,; Schneider, Edgar W.,; Scott, Charles T.,; Seppänen, Aimo,; Smith, John Charles,; Staczek, John J.,; Stein, Dieter,; Stockwell, Robert P.,; Suzuki, Seiichi,; Swan, Toril,; Swiggers, Pierre,; Taavitsainen, Irma,; Trudgill, Peter,; Viereck, Wolfgang,; Wang, William S.-Y,; Wełna, Jerzy,; Winter, Werner,; Wright, Laura,; Wurff, Wim van der,; Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich,; Yonekura, Hiroshi,; Zbierska-Sawala, Anna,
• HerausgeberIn: Hickey, Raymond,; Puppel, Stanislav,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 101
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 1 Frontispiece

This work presents a collection of some 130 contributions covering a wide range of topics of interest to historical, theoretical and applied linguistics alike. A major theme is the development of English which is examined on several levels in the light of recent linguistic theory in various papers. The geographical dimension is also treated extensively with papers on controversial aspects of a variety of studies, as are topical linguistic matters from a more general perspective.

Table of Contents

I-XL -- I Language history. The history of English -- Phonetics/Phonology -- Phonaesthesia and other forms of word play -- Middle English phonology without the syllable -- Chaucerian phonemics: Evidence and interpretation -- The hiatus in English historical phonology -- Early Modern English vowel shortenings in monosyllables before dentals: A morphologically conditioned sound change? -- The metrical prominence hierarchy in Old English verse -- Morphology -- The issue of double modals in the history of English revisited -- The evolution of definite and indefinite articles in English -- The morphology and dialect of Old English disyllabic nouns -- The root of the matter: OE wyrt, wyrtwale, -a, wyrt(t)rum(a) and cognates -- Nominal markedness changes in three Old and Middle English psalters — using the past to predict the past -- The instrumental in Old English -- Cumulative phenomena between prefixes and verbs in Old English -- Morphological variation and change in Early Modern English: my/mine, thy/thine -- The genitive and the category of case in the history of English -- Weak-to-strong: A shift in English verbs? -- Chaucer’s compound nouns: Patterns and productivity -- Syntax -- Subjecthood and the English impersonal -- The grammaticalisation of infinitival to in English compared with German and Dutch -- -THING in English: A case of grammaticalization? -- Topics in Old and Middle English negative sentences -- Topicalization in Old English and its effects. Some remarks -- “Therfor speke playnly to the poynt”: Punctuation in Robert Keayne’s notes of church meetings from early Boston, New England -- ME can and gan in context -- Economy as a principle of syntactic change -- Optional THAT with subordinators in Middle English -- Relative clauses in Thomas Browne: On the way to standard syntax -- Subject-oriented adverbs in a diachronic and contrastive perspective -- The concept of the macrosyntagm in Early Modern English prison narratives -- Object-verb word order in 16th century English: A study of its frequency and status -- Lexis -- Three etymological cruxes: Early Middle English cang ‘fool(ish)’ and (Early) Middle English cangun/conjoun ‘fool’, Middle English crois versus cross and Early Modern English clown -- “With this ring I thee wed”: The verbs to wed and to marry in the history of English -- The ‘Hard Words’ of Levins’ dictionary -- From Jabberwocky back to Old English: Nonsense, Anglo-Saxon and Oxford -- “To make merry”, its variants in Middle English, and the Helsinki Corpus -- Translation as enrichment of language in sixteenth century England: The Courtyer (1561) by Sir Thomas Hoby -- Re-examining the influence of Scandinavian on English: The case of ditch/dike -- Forget-me-not - an English plant name of European lineage -- Some East Anglian dialect words in the light of historical toponymy -- Word-formation and the text in Early English: The axiological functions of Old English prefixes -- Varieties, past and present -- The battle at ‘Acleah’: A linguist’s reflection on annals 851 and 871 of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- What to call a name? Problems of “head-forms” for Old English personal names -- Laʒamon’s idiolect -- The influence of English upon Scottish writing -- The dialects of Middle English -- The Northern paradigm and its implications for scribal grammar in Þe Wohnunge of Ure Lauerd -- Punctuation in the Middle English prose legend of St Faith in MS Southwell Minster 7 -- Derivation of it from Þat in eastern dialects of British English -- Social embedding of linguistic changes in Tudor English -- On the representation of English low vowels -- The possessive adjective as involvement marker in colonial Virginia cookeries -- British vernacular dialects in the formation of American English: The case of East Anglian do -- On negation in dialectal English -- General -- English historical linguistics and philology in Japan 1950-1994: A survey with a list of publications arranged in chronological order -- Knowledge of Old English in the Middle English period? -- By Saint Tanne: Pious oaths or swearing in Middle English? An assessment of genres -- Historical linguistics. Language groups and families -- On the linguistic prehistory of Finno-Ugric -- The development of the Germanic suffix -isk- -- A case of divergent phonological evolution in West Germanic -- Some West Indo-European words of uncertain origin -- The history of linguistics -- Baudouin de Courtenay on Lautgesetze -- ‘Speculative’ historical linguistics -- Language contact, language history and history of linguistics: John Palsgrave’s “Anglo-French” grammar (1530) -- Language contact and change. Contact -- Cross-dialectal parallels and language contacts: Evidence from Celtic Englishes -- A note on the use of data from non-standard varieties of English in linguistic argumentation -- Arguments for creolisation in Irish English -- Romance Germanic contact and the peripheral vowel feature -- The cline of creoleness in negation patterns of Caribbean English creoles -- Change -- How languages living apart together may innovate their systems (as illustrated by to in Russian) -- Lexical diffusion and evolution theory -- Types and tokens in language change: Some evidence from Romance -- A sound change in progress? -- Grammatical ambiguity and language change