Sounds, Words, Texts and Change
Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000
Volume 2
Editors
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Addresses | p. vii
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Acknowledgements | p. ix
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IntroductionTeresa Fanego | pp. 1–8
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Linguistic accommodation: The correspondence between Samuel Johnson and Hester Lynch ThraleRandy C. Bax | pp. 9–23
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Style evolution in the English sermonClaudia Claridge and Andrew Wilson | pp. 25–44
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Lexical bundles in Early Modern English dialogues: A window into the speech-related language of the pastJonathan Culpeper and Merja Kytö | pp. 45–63
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Changing documentation in the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: Sixteenth-century vocabulary as a test casePhilip Durkin | pp. 65–81
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A linguistic history of advertising, 1700–1890Manfred Görlach | pp. 83–104
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Ebb and flow: A cautionary tale of language changeRaymond Hickey | pp. 105–128
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Wreak, wrack, rack, and (w)ruin: The history of some confused spellingsChristian Kay and Irené Wotherspoon | pp. 129–143
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When did English begin?Angelika Lutz | pp. 145–171
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What ’s afoot with word-final C? Metrical coherence and the history of EnglishChris B. McCully | pp. 173–187
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Dan Michel: Fossil or innovator?John Scahill | pp. 189–200
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Historical discourse analysis: Scientific language and changing thought-stylesIrma Taavitsainen | pp. 201–226
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Key issues in English etymologyTheo Vennemann | pp. 227–252
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The dialectology of ‘English’ north of the Humber, c.1380–1500Keith Williamson | pp. 253–286
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Name index | pp. 287–292
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Subject index | pp. 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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2022. Introduction. In English Historical Linguistics [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358], ► pp. 2 ff. 
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General