English Historical Linguistics
Historical English in contact
Papers from the XXth ICEHL
Editors
This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora, dialectological methods, and the study of translated texts. It also breaks new ground by applying relevant insights from other fields, among them postcolonial linguistics and anthropology. This pluralistic approach brings new and under-studied issues within the scope of explanation, and challenges some long-held assumptions about the nature of historical change in English. The volume will be of interest to an audience interested in the history of English, and the impact of its contact with Viking Age Norse, Old French, and Latin.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 359] 2022. vi, 185 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. IntroductionChris Cummins | pp. 1–4
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Chapter 2. Adapting the Dynamic Model to historical linguistics: Case studies on the Middle English and Anglo-Norman contact situationMichael Percillier | pp. 5–34
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Chapter 3. An account of the use of fronting and clefting in Cornish EnglishAvelino Corral Esteban | pp. 35–56
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Chapter 4. How does causal connection originate? Evidence from translation correspondences between the Old English Boethius and the ConsolatioAnastasia Eseleva | pp. 57–74
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Chapter 5. Old Northumbrian in the Scottish Borders: Evidence from place-namesCarole Hough | pp. 75–96
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Chapter 6. From eadig to happy: The lexical replacement in the field of Medieval English adjectives of fortuneRafał Molencki | pp. 97–118
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Chapter 7. Distributional changes in synonym sets: The case of fragrant, scented, and perfumed in 19th- and 20th-century American EnglishDaniela Pettersson-Traba | pp. 119–142
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Chapter 8. The taking off and catching on of etymological spellings in Early Modern English: Evidence from the EEBO CorpusRyuichi Hotta and Yoko Iyeiri | pp. 143–164
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Chapter 9. Speech acts in the history of English: Gaps and paths of evolutionThomas Kohnen | pp. 165–180
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Index | pp. 181–185
“Overall, the volume offers new insights into HEL in contact situations through a balanced account that considers both traditional philological analysis and the ‘big data’ approach. The volume further provides new and nuanced understandings of several areas which are generally less known or less often researched, for example, Cornish English, Old Northumbrian and Older Scots, lexical replacement and diachronic speech acts. Innovative methods may also open new avenues of research into the history and development of English”
Sabina Nedelius, University of Gothenburg, in English Language and Linguistics (2023)
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative