Lilo Moessner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lilo Moessner plays a role.
2024 Modality and the English subjunctive in noun clauses: A diachronic study Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography, Porck, Thijs, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon (eds.), pp. 103–119 | Chapter
The paper starts with a survey of earlier studies on the subjunctive in English noun clauses, and it promises the analysis of the parameter modality expressed by third person singular present tense verbal syntagms in a corpus of almost 550,000 words. Two models of modality are distinguished; in… read more
2022 Chapter 9. Should with non-past reference: A corpus-based diachronic study English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning, Los, Bettelou, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 225–242 | Chapter
This chapter combines a quantitative and a qualitative analysis of the use of should with non-past reference in the historical periods Old English, Middle English (ME), and Early Modern English (EModE). It is based on data from the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts and the Middle English… read more
2020 Old English law-codes: A synchronic-diachronic genre study Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21:1, pp. 28–52 | Article
Law language is a cover-term for different genres of legal texts. The genre of law is characterized as being written, legislative and formal. Quantitative studies on the textual and linguistic structure of Old English (oe) law-codes are lacking so far, but both aspects are analysed in this paper… read more
2018 Chapter 5. Old English wills: A genre study Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English, Petré, Peter, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt (eds.), pp. 103–124 | Chapter
Following Bhatia’s model of the ‘language of the law’, this paper treats wills and statutes as representatives of the genre ‘written formal legislative legal documents’. In an overview of the publications on Present-day English (PDE) legal writing, I point out that only statutes have been analyzed… read more
2010 Directive speech acts: A cross-generic diachronic study Journal of Historical Pragmatics 11:2, pp. 219–249 | Article
It is the aim of this paper to identify and analyse directive speech acts in a corpus of Early Modern English and Present-day English written texts from legal, religious and scientific discourse. It starts with a justification of the application of speech act models to the analysis of written texts. read more
2009 News filtering processes in the Philosophical Transactions Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 205–221 | Article
2008 Variation and change in the writings of 17th century scientists English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dury, Richard, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena (eds.), pp. 75–93 | Article
The paper investigates changes of the genre ‘science’ in the 17th century. The method of multidimensional analysis applied to two texts of the first and to four texts of the second half of the 17th century stops a methodological and a chronological gap. On the dimensions ‘narrative vs non-narrative… read more
1994 Dog — Man’s Best Friend: A study in historical lexicology English Historical Linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992, Fernández, Francisco, Miguel Fuster Márquez and Juan Jose Calvo (eds.), pp. 207–218 | Article