Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English: Records of communities and people
Olga Timofeeva
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 13] 2022. xv, 204 pp.
Olga Timofeeva
List of John Benjamins publications for which Olga Timofeeva plays a role.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick
Edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 16] 2021. xv, 252 pp.
Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building bridges
Edited by Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja and Sarah Chevalier
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 177] 2016. vi, 326 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English
Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 159] 2014. vi, 326 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie
Edited by Olga Timofeeva and Tanja Säily
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 14] 2011. xvi, 292 pp.
Subjects History of linguistics | Terminology
2024 “Yet ar ye not lyche, for thu art a fals strumpet”: Pronominal terms of address in The Book of Margery Kempe Journal of Historical Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
In Late Middle English, the system of second-person pronouns with singular referents is characterised by retractable choices based on the interactional status of interlocutors. This system has until recently been documented mostly in studies based on poetic texts, such as the Canterbury Tales by… read more
2021 Review of Poplack (2018): Borrowing: Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar English World-Wide 42:2, pp. 237–241 | Review
2019 Chancery norms before Chancery English? Templates in royal writs from Alfred the Great to William the Conqueror Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20:1, pp. 51–77 | Article
This study analyses two Old English formulae gret freodlice (‘greets in a friendly manner’) and ic cyðe eow þæt (‘I make it known to you that’), which form a salutation–notification template in a document type called writs. It connects the emergence of this formulaic set to previous oral… read more
2016 Introduction New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building bridges, Timofeeva, Olga, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja and Sarah Chevalier (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2014 At the crossroads of language change, variation, and contact Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English, Pfenninger, Simone E., Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Preface
2013 Hearsay and lexical evidentials in Old Germanic languages, with focus on Old English Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories, Diewald, Gabriele, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer (eds.), pp. 169–194 | Article
This article offers a paradigmatic survey of auditory evidential constructions in Old English: direct-perception constructions – accusativus cum infinitivo (ACI) introduced by the auditory (ge)hieran ‘to hear’ ((ge)hieran+ACI) – and hearsay-evidence constructions, consisting of the verb (ge)hieran… read more
2013 Of ledenum bocum to engliscum gereorde: Bilingual communities of practice in Anglo-Saxon England Communities of Practice in the History of English, Kopaczyk, Joanna and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 201–224 | Article
2011 Battlefield victory: Lexical transfer in Medieval Anglo-Latin Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives, Kranich, Svenja, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 109–132 | Article
This paper addresses several expressions from the Anglo-Latin chronicles of the ninth-twelfth centuries connected with the military milieu (e.g. dominor loco funeris or accipio victoriam) and their possible sources in Old English phraseology. The Anglo-Latin data is compared to the Anglo-Saxon… read more
2011 Introduction Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. xiii–xvi | Miscellaneous