English historical linguistics, 1992 : papers from the Seventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-7) : Valencia, 22-26 September 1992 /
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| Meeting name: | International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (7th : 1992 : Valencia, Spain) |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1994. |
| Description: | viii, 388 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory v. 113 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1563741 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Editors' Foreword
- 2. I. General Issues
- 3. Linguistics, Philology, Chickens and Eggs
- 4. Can Catastrophe Theory Provide Adequate Explanations for Linguistic Change? An application to syntactic change in English
- 5. Postdisciplinary Philology
- 6. Premisses and Periods in a History of English
- 7. Linguistic Reality of Middle English
- 8. II. Phonology and Writing
- 9. Old English Stress
- 10. The\Great Vowel Shift Revisited
- 11. Towards a Standard Written English? Continuity and change in the orthographic usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393-1464)
- 12. On the Writing of the History of Standard English
- 13. III. Morphology and Syntax
- 14. Grammatical Choices in Old and Early Middle English
- 15. Subject Extraction in English
- 16. The\Modals Again in the Light of Historical and Cross-Linguistic Evidence
- 17. OE and ME Multiple Negation
- 18. ø-relatives with Antecedent @ and Free Relatives in OE and ME
- 19. Be vs. Have with Intransitives in Early Modern English
- 20. Infinitive Marking in Early Modern English
- 21. IV Lexicology and Semantics
- 22. Dog -- Man's Best Friend
- 23. Emotions in the English Lexicon
- 24. The\Scandinavian Element in the Vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle
- 25. Productive or Non-productive? The Romance element in Middle English derivation
- 26. Remarks on the Origin and Evolution of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 27. "Ase roser when hit redes"
- 28. V. Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts
- 29. Prototype Categories and Variation Studies
- 30. What does the Jungle of Middle English Manuscripts Tell Us? On ME words for 'every' and 'each' with special reference to their many variants
- 31. Ladies and gentlemen
- 32. On the revolution of scientific writings from 1375 to 1675
- 33. Multiple authorship of the OE Orosius
- 34. "After a copye unto Me Delyverd"
- 35. VI. Indexes
- 36. Index nominum
- 37. Index rerum