Sounds, Words, Texts and Change

Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000

Volume 2

Editors

Teresa Fanego

| University of Santiago de Compostela

Belén Méndez-Naya

| University of Santiago de Compostela

Elena Seoane

| University of Santiago de Compostela

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This volume and its companion one (English Historical Syntax and Morphology, CILT 223) offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present thirteen papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the field of English historical linguistics. The areas represented in the volume are lexis and semantics, text-types, historical sociolinguistics and dialectology, and phonology. Many of the articles tackle questions of change and linguistic periodization through the use of methodological tools like corpora, linguistic atlases, thesauri and historical dictionaries. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, multi-dimensional analysis, systemic-functional grammar, Communication Accommodation Theory, historical discourse analysis and Optimality Theory.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 224] 2002. ix, 301 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.224

Table of Contents

Addresses	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction Teresa Fanego	1–8
Linguistic accommodation: The correspondence between Samuel Johnson and Hester Lynch Thrale Randy C. Bax	9–23
Style evolution in the English sermon Claudia Claridge and Andrew Wilson	25–44
Lexical bundles in Early Modern English dialogues: A window into the speech-related language of the past Jonathan Culpeper and Merja Kytö	45–63
Changing documentation in the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary : Sixteenth-century vocabulary as a test case Philip Durkin	65–81
A linguistic history of advertising, 1700–1890 Manfred Görlach	83–104
Ebb and flow: A cautionary tale of language change Raymond Hickey	105–128
Wreak, wrack, rack, and (w)ruin: The history of some confused spellings Christian Kay and Irené Wotherspoon	129–143
When did English begin? Angelika Lutz	145–171
What ’s afoot with word-final C?: Metrical coherence and the history of English Chris B. McCully	173–187
Dan Michel: Fossil or innovator? John Scahill	189–200
Historical discourse analysis: Scientific language and changing thought-styles Irma Taavitsainen	201–226
Key issues in English etymology Theo Vennemann	227–252
The dialectology of ‘English’ north of the Humber, c.1380–1500 Keith Williamson	253–286
Name index	287–292
Subject index	292–301

“This volume has much to attract people with multifarious interests in the history of English.”

Dr. Anthony Grant, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Lancashire, England, on Linguist List 15.300, Jan 2004

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

English linguistics

Germanic linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002021461 | Marc record