English Historical Linguistics 1992

Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992

Editors

Francisco Fernández

Miguel Fuster Márquez

Juan Jose Calvo

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This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia. The book opens with a general section, in which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe theory, Roger Sell suggests a pragmatic analysis of historical data, and Norman Blake and Jacek Fisiak re-open the debate on periodization in the history of English. The rest of the papers is grouped in four sections: Phonology and Writing, Morphology and Syntax, Lexicology and Semantics, and Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts. An index of names and a subject index complete the volume.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 113] 1994. viii, 388 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.113

Table of Contents

Editors’ Foreword	v
I. General Issues
Linguistics, Philology, Chickens and Eggs Richard M. Hogg	3
Can Catastrophe Theory Provide Adequate Explanations for Linguistic Change? An application to syntactic change in English Enrique Bernárdez	17
Postdisciplinary Philology: Culturally relativistic pragmatics Roger D. Sell	29
Premisses and Periods in a History of English Norman F. Blake	37
Linguistic Reality of Middle English Jacek Fisiak	47
II. Phonology and Writing
Old English Stress: Amorphous? Fran Colman	65
The Great Vowel Shift Revisited Trinidad Guzman	81
Towards a Standard Written English? Continuity and change in the orthographic usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393–1464) Peter G. Lucas	91
On the Writing of the History of Standard English Laura Wright	105
III. Morphology and Syntax
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	119
Subject Extraction in English: The use of the that-complementizer Gunnar Bergh and Aimo Seppänen	131
The Modals Again in the Light of Historical and Cross-Linguistic Evidence Juan Manuel de la Cruz	145
OE and ME Multiple Negation: Some syntactic and stylistic remarks Gabriella Mazzon	157
ø-relatives with Antecedent @ and Free Relatives in OE and ME Concha Castillo	171
Be vs. Have with Intransitives in Early Modern English Merja Kytö	179
Infinitive Marking in Early Modern English Teresa Fanego	191
IV Lexicology and Semantics
Dog — Man’s Best Friend: A study in historical lexicology Lilo Moessner	207
Emotions in the English Lexicon: A historical study of a lexical field Hans-Jürgen Diller	219
The Scandinavian Element in the Vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle Veronika Kniezsa	235
Productive or Non-productive? The Romance element in Middle English derivation Christiane Dalton-Puffer	247
Remarks on the Origin and Evolution of Abbreviations and Acronyms Félix Rodríguez González and Garland Cannon	261
“Ase roser when hit redes”: Semantic shifts and cultural overtones in the Middle English colour lexicon Nicola Pantaleo	273
V. Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts
Prototype Categories and Variation Studies Helena Raumolin-Brunberg	287
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	305
Ladies and gentlemen: the generalization of titles in early modern English Terttu Nevalainen	317
On the revolution of scientific writings from 1375 to 1675: repertoire of emotive features Irma Taavitsainen	329
Multiple authorship of the OE Orosius Sakari Louhivaara	343
“After a copye unto Me Delyverd”: multiple negation in Malory’s Morte Darthur Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade	353
VI. Indexes
Index nominum	367
Index rerum	373

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Germanic linguistics

English linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 93044795