Ryuichi Hotta
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ryuichi Hotta plays a role.
2022 Chapter 8. The taking off and catching on of etymological spellings in Early Modern English: Evidence from the EEBO Corpus English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact, Los, Bettelou, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux (eds.), pp. 143–164 | Chapter
This chapter examines the path that orthographic etymologisation, as in doubt and verdict, followed mainly in the course of the sixteenth century. Few corpus-based studies have been undertaken on etymological spellings, but the recent availability of the large-sized EEBO Corpus must be of great… read more
2018 Chapter 9. Betwixt, amongst, and amidst: The diachronic development of function words with final /st/ Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English, Petré, Peter, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt (eds.), pp. 201–226 | Chapter
The purpose of the paper is to examine, using historical corpora, the diachronic development of variants of the function words between, among, and amid with emphasis on the variants with final /st/, i.e. betwixt, amongst, and amidst. In Present-day English, the variants with final /st/ have a more… read more
2015 A Phonological motivation behind the diatonic stress shift in Modern English Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013, Haug, Dag T.T. (ed.), pp. 3–18 | Article
The paper addresses the historical growth of disyllabic stress-alternating noun-verb pairs, or ‘diatones’, such as récord/recórd in Modern English. First, I describe how diatones have increased in number since their first attestation in the late sixteenth century. Next, I critically review two… read more
2012 The order and schedule of nominal plural formation transfer in three Southern dialects of Early Middle English 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. 95–114 | Article
The general history of the nominal plural formations in English has been widely known, but there has been little investigation about how the spread of the s-plural during the Early Middle English period proceeded in dialects of England. The way that the spread of -s was late and slow in the… read more