Paul S. Cohen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paul S. Cohen plays a role.
Article
2012 On the etymological relationships of wank, swank, and wonky English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008, Sauer, Hans and Gaby Waxenberger (eds.), pp. 21–28 | Article
The English slang verb wank (off) ‘(of a male) to masturbate; to masturbate (a male)’ has no generally accepted etymology. Using historical and dialectal English data, comparative data from German and other Germanic languages, and a parallel semantic development in French, I establish an etymology… read more