Louise Sylvester
List of John Benjamins publications for which Louise Sylvester plays a role.
Articles
2019 Chapter 22. Penetration of French-origin lexis in Middle English occupational domains Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela and Claudia Fabrizio (eds.), pp. 459–478 | Chapter
This study reassesses whether the contact influence of French on Middle English should continue to be conceptualised essentially as high-status prestige borrowing. French-origin items were found to constitute an average of 27% of the specific lexis of six occupational domains collected in the… read more
2012 Multilingualism in the vocabulary of dress and textiles in late medieval Britain: Some issues for historical lexicology English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010, Hegedűs, Irén and Alexandra Fodor (eds.), pp. 313–326 | Article
This paper initially examines data from the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain ca. 700–1450 project in order to investigate the contemporary status of what are now classified as separate languages. In relation to this question, it briefly considers the methodologies of a variety of historical… read more
2004 Categories and taxonomies: A cognitive approach to lexicographical resources Categorization in the History of English, Kay, Christian and Jeremy J. Smith (eds.), pp. 237 ff. | Article
2000 The Vocabulary of Consent in Middle English Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998, Coleman, Julie and Christian Kay (eds.), pp. 157 ff. | Article