Table of contents
Editors’ Forewordv
I. General Issues
Linguistics, Philology, Chickens and Eggs3
Can Catastrophe Theory Provide Adequate Explanations for Linguistic Change? An application to syntactic change in English17
Postdisciplinary Philology: Culturally relativistic pragmatics29
Premisses and Periods in a History of English37
Linguistic Reality of Middle English47
II. Phonology and Writing
Old English Stress: Amorphous?65
The Great Vowel Shift Revisited81
Towards a Standard Written English? Continuity and change in the orthographic usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393–1464)91
On the Writing of the History of Standard English105
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 English119
Subject Extraction in English: The use of the that-complementizer131
The Modals Again in the Light of Historical and Cross-Linguistic Evidence145
OE and ME Multiple Negation: Some syntactic and stylistic remarks157
ø-relatives with Antecedent @ and Free Relatives in OE and ME171
Be vs. Have with Intransitives in Early Modern English179
Infinitive Marking in Early Modern English191
IV Lexicology and Semantics
Dog — Man’s Best Friend: A study in historical lexicology207
Emotions in the English Lexicon: A historical study of a lexical field219
The Scandinavian Element in the Vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle235
Productive or Non-productive? The Romance element in Middle English derivation247
Remarks on the Origin and Evolution of Abbreviations and Acronyms261
“Ase roser when hit redes”: Semantic shifts and cultural overtones in the Middle English colour lexicon273
V. Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts
Prototype Categories and Variation Studies287
What does the Jungle of Middle English Manuscripts Tell Us? On ME words for ‘every’ and ‘each’ with special reference to their many variants305
Ladies and gentlemen: the generalization of titles in early modern English317
On the revolution of scientific writings from 1375 to 1675: repertoire of emotive features329
Multiple authorship of the OE Orosius343
“After a copye unto Me Delyverd”: multiple negation in Malory’s Morte Darthur353
VI. Indexes
Index nominum367
Index rerum373
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