Historical Linguistics and Philology / / ed. by Jacek Fisiak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: AHLQVIST, ANDERS,; AITCHISON, JEAN,; AUSTIN, FRANCES,; BRINTON, LAUREL J.,; BUNT, GERRIT Η. V.,; CAMPBELL, LYLE,; CANGER, UNA,; DEES, ANTHONIJ,; DIENSBERG, BERNHARD,; DILLER, HANS-JÜRGEN,; FAARLUND, JAN TERJE,; GERRITSEN, MARINEL,; GODDARD, IVES,; KNIEZSA, VERONIKA,; MAŃCZAK, WITOLD,; NEVANLINNA, SAARA,; ODWARKA, KARL,; PILCH, HERBERT,; POSNER, REBECCA,; RISSANEN, MATTI,; WINTER, WERNER,
• HerausgeberIn: Fisiak, Jacek,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 46
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (401 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

I-IV -- Preface -- List of participants -- Paragraph 16 of Audacht Morainn: linguistic theory and philological evidence -- The missing link: the role of the lexicon -- Text as social indicator: the letters of Julia Miles Barnes -- The development of discourse markers in English -- Localizing William of Palerne -- Philological studies and Mayan languages -- Philology in America: Nahuatl: What loan words and the early descriptions of Nahuatl show about stress, vowel length, and glottal stop in sixteenth century Nahuatl and Spanish -- Towards a dialectology of spoken Old French: the analysis of rhymes -- The phonological status of long consonants in the Vernon manuscript of the Ancrene Riwle -- Linguistic searchlights and philological buckets: a case study of their interdependence (the conceptual field of persuade/convince) -- Syntactic and pragmatic principles as arguments in the interpretation of runic inscriptions -- The relationship between punctuation and syntax in Middle Dutch -- Unhistorical features in Massachusett orthography -- The orthographic aspect of the runes -- The object of philology and the object of linguistics -- The occurrence of glosses in three Late Middle English texts: lexical variation -- On scribal errors: from the Old Saxon evidence -- The last Vercelli homily: a sentence-analytical edition -- Linguistics and philology: parametric changes and Romance possessives -- On the happy reunion of English philology and historical linguistics -- The importance of fine points in spelling: deletion of accented vowels in Tocharian Β -- Index of authors -- Index of languages -- 403-404