Table of contents
Part I.Introduction
1
Investigating West Germanic languages
2
Part II.Linguistic structure and change
13
Homorganic lengthening in late Old English revisited
14
Meter, syntax, and the use of punctuation in the Leipzig fragment of the
Hêliand
32
The semantics and grammatical status of -
frei
51
Een mooi paar mouwen
The etymology of Dutch
mooi ‘beautiful’ and
mouw ‘sleeve’
69
Part III.Migration, contact, and change
79
Sound change, analogy, and urban koineization in the regularization of verbs in late fourteenth-century
English
80
Vowel lowering, consonant cluster simplification, and koineization in the history of Pennsylvania Dutch
107
Lexicalizing vernacular architecture in the Cape Dutch Vernacular
131
Part IV.Vernacular sources and change
163
Weaving data strands together
Towards assembling Norwich’s historical urban vernacular
164
Investigating change from a perspective of continuity
Dutch two-verb clusters in sixteenth-century Antwerp
188
Non-native communication in eighteenth-century maritime circles
Dutch letters written by economic migrants
225
Part V.Historical sociolinguistics
Past, present, and future
259
The dialect of Vriezenveen: Where does it come from?
Where is it going?
260
Exploring past and present layers of multilingualism in Flemish-emigrant writing
276
An excursion into the lost history of historical sociolinguistics
301
Index