nam a22 c 4500 cilt.324/737010646 nljbp 250625032421.3 cr ||||||||||| 241221s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2010025973 9789027273574 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp PE1075 425 22 CF/2AB bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh English Historical Linguistics 2008 Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008 Volume II: Words, texts and genres Edited by Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (xviii, 271 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 0304-0763 324 Includes bibliographical references and index. Etymology and the OED / Philip Durkin -- On the etymological relationships of wank, swank, and wonky / Paul S. Cohen -- Base etymology in the historical thesauri of deverbatives in English / Michael Bilynsky -- The global organization of the English lexicon and its evolution / Mieko Ogura and William S-Y. Wang -- Repayment and revenge / Carole Hough -- Semantic change in the domain of the vocabulary of Christian clergy / Sylwester Lodej -- Abstract noun ‘suffixes’ and text type in Old English / Anne-Christine Gardner -- The lexicalisation of syncope / Penelope Thompson -- Oriented -ingly adjuncts in Late Modern English / Cristiano Broccias -- Historical text linguistics / Thomas Kohnen -- Repetitive and therefore fixed? / Joanna Kopaczyk -- Politeness strategies in Late Middle English women’s mystical writing / Fumiko Yoshikawa -- A diachronic discussion of extenders in English remedies found in the Corpus of Early English Recipes (1350–1850) / Ivalla Ortega Barrera -- “It is with a trembling hand I beg to intrude this letter” / Krisda Chaemsaithong -- Genre analysis / Gordana Dimkovic-Telebakovic The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of text-types and of politeness strategies. Of those in the former group, three have their emphasis on etymology, three on semantic fields, and three on word-formation, although some cover more than one of these areas. The topics include: the treatment of etymological problems in the OED; deverbal derivations formed from native verbs and from loan-verbs; the role of metaphor and metonymy in the evolution of word-fields. The field of historical text linguistics is introduced by a general survey, which is followed by more specific studies focussing on 15th-century legal and administrative texts from Scotland, on early 15th-century women’s mystical writings, on medical recipes from the 16th to the 18th centuries and on pauper letters from 18th-century Essex. The book should appeal to scholars interested in English etymology, the history of semantic fields and of word-formation, as well as in historical text linguistics, politeness strategies and standardization. It provides not only theoretical considerations but also a wealth of case studies. Provided by publisher. English linguistics Germanic linguistics Historical linguistics Sauer, Hans editor Waxenberger, Gaby editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027248428 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.324 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027273574