Language History and Linguistic Modelling

by Hickey, Raymond; Puppel, Stanisaw

• ISBN13: 9783110145045
• ISBN10: 3110145049
• eBook ISBN(s): 9783110820751
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

This work presents a collection of some 130 contributions covering a wide range of topics of interest to historical, theoretical and applied linguistics alike. A major theme is the development of English which is examined on several levels in the light of recent linguistic theory in various papers. The geographical dimension is also treated extensively with papers on controversial aspects of a variety of studies, as are topical linguistic matters from a more general perspective.

Table of Contents

Preface	v	(2)
Curriculum vitae	vii	(12)
List of publications	xix
I Language history	3	(1138)
The history of English	3	(826)
Phonetics/Phonology	3	(84)
Phonaesthesia and other forms of word play	3	(10)
Julie Coleman
Middle English phonology without the syllable	13	(16)
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk
Chaucerian phonemics: Evidence and interpretation	29	(30)
Donka Minkova
Robert P. Stockwell
The hiatus in English historical phonology	59	(6)
Toshio Nakao
Early Modern English vowel shortenings in monosyllables before dentals: A morphologically conditioned sound change?	65	(8)
Nikolaus Ritt
The metrical prominence hierarchy in Old English verse	73	(14)
Seiichi Suzuki
Morphology	87	(164)
The issue of double modals in the history of English revisited	87	(14)
Juan M. de la Cruz
The evolution of definite and indefinite articles in English	101	(12)
John Hewson
The morphology and dialect of Old English disyllabic nouns	113	(14)
Richard M. Hogg
The root of the matter: OE wyrt, wyrtwale, -a, wyrt(t)rum(a) and cognates	127	(16)
Peter R. Kitson
Nominal markedness changes in three Old and Middle English psalters - using the past to predict the past	143	(10)
Marcin Krygier
The instrumental in Old English	153	(14)
Ruta Nagucka
Cumulative phenomena between prefixes and verbs in Old English	167	(12)
Yoshinobu Niwa
Morphological variation and change in Early Modern English: my/mine, thy/thine	179	(14)
Herbert Schendl
The genitive and the category of case in the history of English	193	(22)
Aimo Seppanen
Weak-to-strong: A shift in English verbs?	215	(14)
Jerzy Welna
Chaucer's compound nouns: Patterns and productivity	229	(22)
Hiroshi Yonekura
Syntax	251	(206)
Subjecthood and the English impersonal	251	(14)
John Anderson
The grammaticalisation of infinitival to in English compared with German and Dutch	265	(16)
Olga Fischer
-THING in English: A case of grammaticalization?	281	(12)
Leena Kahlas-Tarkka
Topics in Old and Middle English negative sentences	293	(14)
Ans van Kemenade
Topicalization in Old English and its effects. Some remarks	307	(16)
Willem F. Koopman
"Therfor speke playnly to the poynt": Punctuation in Robert Keayne's notes of church meetings from early Boston, New England	323	(20)
Merja Kyto
ME can and gan in context	343	(14)
Manfred Markus
Economy as a principle of syntactic change	357	(16)
Lilo Moessner
Optional THAT with subordinators in Middle English	373	(12)
Matti Rissanen
Relative clauses in Thomas Browne: On the way to standard syntax	385	(10)
Dieter Stein
Subject-oriented adverbs in a diachronic and contrastive perspective	395	(28)
Toril Swan
Leiv Egil Breivik
The concept of the macrosyntagm in Early Modern English prison narratives	423	(16)
Laura Wright
Object-verb word order in 16th century English: A study of its frequency and status	439	(18)
Wim van der Wurff
Tony Foster
Lexis	457	(148)
Three etymological cruxes: Early Middle English cang `fool(ish)' and (Early) Middle English cangun/conjoun `fool', Middle English crois versus cross and Early Modern English clown	457	(10)
Bernhard Diensberg
"With this ring I thee wed": The verbs to wed and to marry in the history of English	467	(16)
Andreas Fischer
The `Hard Words' of Levins' dictionary	483	(20)
Maurizio Gotti
From Jabberwocky back to Old English: Nonsense, Anglo-Saxon and Oxford	503	(18)
Peter J. Lucas
"To make merry", its variants in Middle English, and the Helsinki Corpus	521	(22)
Saara Nevanlinna
Translation as enrichment of language in sixteenth century England: The Courtyer (1561) by Sir Thomas Hoby	543	(18)
Carmela Nocera Avila
Re-examining the influence of Scandinavian on English: The case of ditch/dike	561	(10)
Heinrich Ramisch
Forget-me-not - an English plant name of European lineage	571	(14)
Mats Ryden
Some East Anglian dialect words in the light of historical toponymy	585	(8)
Karl Inge Sandred
Word-formation and the text in Early English: The axiological functions of Old English prefixes	593	(12)
Anna Zbierska-Sawala
Varieties, past and present	605	(166)
The battle at `Acleah': A linguist's reflection on annals 851 and 871 of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	605	(10)
Richard Coates
What to call a name? Problems of "head-forms" for Old English personal names	615	(14)
Fran Colman
Lazamon's idiolect	629	(8)
Haruo Iwasaki
The influence of English upon Scottish writing	637	(18)
Veronika Kniezsa
The dialects of Middle English	655	(10)
Gillis Kristensson
The Northern paradigm and its implications for scribal grammar in pe Wohnunge of Ure Lauerd	665	(14)
Elise E. Morse-Gagne
Punctuation in the Middle English prose legend of St Faith in MS Southwell Minster 7	679	(12)
Paivi Pahta
Derivation of it from pat in eastern dialects of British English	691	(10)
Patricia Poussa
Social embedding of linguistic changes in Tudor English	701	(18)
Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
Terttu Nevalainen
On the representation of English low vowels	719	(20)
Charles T. Scott
The possessive adjective as involvement marker in colonial Virginia cookeries	739	(10)
John J. Staczek
British vernacular dialects in the formation of American English: The case of East Anglian do	749	(10)
Peter Trudgill
On negation in dialectal English	759	(12)
Wolfgang Viereck
General	771	(58)
English historical linguistics and philology in Japan 1950-1994: A survey with a list of publications arranged in chronological order	771	(20)
Akio Oizumi
Knowledge of Old English in the Middle English period?	791	(24)
Hans Sauer
By Saint Tanne: Pious oaths or swearing in Middle English? An assessment of genres	815	(14)
Irma Taavitsainen
Historical linguistics	829	(312)
Language groups and families	829	(82)
On the linguistic prehistory of Finno-Ugric	829	(34)
Lyle Campbell
The development of the Germanic suffix -isk-	863	(10)
Witold Manczak
A case of divergent phonological evolution in West Germanic	873	(6)
Vulf Y. Plotkin
Some West Indo-European words of uncertain origin	879	(32)
Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld
The history of linguistics	911	(32)
Baudouin de Courtenay on Lautgesetze	911	(12)
Arleta Adamska-Salaciak
`Speculative' historical linguistics	923	(6)
Wieslaw Awedyk
Language contact, language history and history of linguistics: John Palsgrave's "Anglo-French" grammar (1530)	929	(14)
Pierre Swiggers
Language contact and change	943	(198)
Contact	943	(126)
Cross-dialectal parallels and language contacts: Evidence from Celtic Englishes	943	(16)
Markku Filppula
A note on the use of data from non-standard varieties of English in linguistic argumentation	959	(10)
Juhani Klemola
Arguments for creolisation in Irish English	969	(70)
Raymond Hickey
Romance Germanic contact and the peripheral vowel feature	1039	(16)
Rebecca Posner
The cline of creoleness in negation patterns of Caribbean English creoles	1055	(14)
Edgar W. Schneider
Change	1069	(72)
How languages living apart together may innovate their systems (as illustrated by to in Russian)	1069	(14)
Jadranka Gvozdanovic
Lexical diffusion and evolution theory	1083	(16)
Mieko Ogura
William S. Y. Wang
Types and tokens in language change: Some evidence from Romance	1099	(14)
John Charles Smith
A sound change in progress?	1113	(12)
Werner Winter
Grammatical ambiguity and language change	1125	(16)
Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel
II Linguistic modelling	1141	(944)
General	1141	(120)
The Focus Null Hypothesis and the head-direction parameter: Word compounding, numerals, and proper names	1141	(18)
Werner Abraham
A theory of rection	1159	(24)
Jerzy Banczerowski
Principles of cognitive grammar	1183	(16)
Gunter Radden
On the functioning of rules of adjustment in generative grammar	1199	(32)
Piotr Ruszkiewicz
Licensing of bare NP adjuncts	1231	(14)
Przemyslaw Tajsner
Adjunction to IP and NP: Evidence from Polish	1245	(16)
Tadeusz Zabrocki
Phonetics/Phonology	1261	(102)
Irish "tense" sonorants and licensing of empty positions	1261	(12)
Eugeniusz Cyran
Tone in second language acquisition	1273	(18)
Stig Eliasson
Govern or perish: Sequences of empty nuclei in Polish	1291	(10)
Edmund Gussmann
The theory of universal vowel space and the Norwegian and Polish vowel systems	1301	(24)
Stanislaw Puppel
Ernst Hakon Jahr
Alignment in Polish	1325	(16)
Jerzy Rubach
A feature geometric analysis of palatalization in English	1341	(22)
Jolanta Szpyra
Morphology	1363	(62)
Problematical plural forms in French	1363	(8)
William Bennett
Recursivity in the inflectional morphology of English and German dialects	1371	(8)
Carol Chapman
Inalienable possession in English, Irish and Polish morphology	1379	(20)
Aidan Doyle
Bogdan Szymanek
Universals, typology, and modularity in Natural Morphology	1399	(26)
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Syntax	1425	(160)
Some syntax and a little theology	1425	(8)
Anders Ahlqvist
Supplementive adjective clauses in English	1433	(20)
Peter Erdmann
One speaker's verbs	1453	(4)
Eric P. Hamp
Some notes on grammatical function indicators across languages	1457	(16)
George M. Horn
Telicity as a perfectivising category: Notes on aspectual distinctions in English and Polish	1473	(20)
Henryk Kardela
It all cruises to a close: On agentive/middle verbs, analytic constructions and iconicity	1493	(20)
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
What is double about double modals?	1513	(14)
Steven J. Nagle
Effects of mood loss and aspect gain on English tenses	1527	(10)
Harold Paddock
The spread of the going-to-future in written English: A corpus-based investigation into language change in progress	1537	(8)
Christian Mair
Any or no: Functional spread of non-assertive any	1545	(10)
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
On the syntactic status of ze/that and its implications for the theory of phrase structure in Polish	1555	(30)
Jacek Witkos
Semantics	1585	(80)
Organization of the foreign language mental lexicon	1585	(8)
Janusz Arabski
On the logic of implicational universals	1593	(20)
Erik W. Hansen
The exculpation of the Conduit Metaphor	1613	(8)
Tomasz P. Krzeszowski
Entailment and modality	1621	(12)
Philip A. Luelsdorff
On the distinction between semantic and encyclopaedic information	1633	(8)
Roman Kalisz
Crosslinguistic aspects of the mental lexicon	1641	(12)
David Singleton
Shall we "re-consider"? A look at the pragmatics of the semantics of re-	1653	(12)
Angela Della Volpe
Pragmatics	1665	(28)
How do you know what I'm talking about? On the semantics and pragmatics of referring	1665	(16)
Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
Dieter Kastovsky
Sitting: Between pragmatics and etymology	1681	(12)
Aleksander Szwedek
Contrastive linguistics and language acquisition	1693	(218)
Tertium comparationis and contrastive linguistics	1693	(10)
Ireneusz Bobrowski
The historical-contrastive linguistics interface and noun morphology in contact situations	1703	(10)
Andrei Danchev
Grammaticalization and social convergence in second language acquisition	1713	(20)
Norbert Dittmar
Bernard Spolsky
Joel Walters
Clippings in modern French, English, German and Dutch	1733	(10)
Camiel Hamans
English - Polish Dictionary of Idioms: The computing background	1743	(8)
Michal Jankowski
Manner adverbials in English and Arabic	1751	(14)
Lewis Mukattash
Elham Kawar
First-language maintenance among twentieth century Polish immigrants to France, the United States, and New Zealand	1765	(16)
Henry Niedzielski
Foreign elements in German and French trade names	1781	(20)
Elke Ronneberger-Sibold
Radically simplified phonetic transcription for Polglish speakers	1801	(30)
Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak
Same versus different crosslinguistically: The articles in English, Spanish and Hebrew	1831	(28)
Yishai Tobin
Cognitive grammar for contrastive linguistics: A case study of indirect speech in English and Polish	1859	(28)
Kamila Turewicz
Metalanguage and interlanguage	1887	(14)
Henry G. Widdowson
The pragmatics of new words and their translation from English into Russian	1901	(10)
Vera Zabotkina
Discourse analysis	1911	(50)
Reduction and elaboration in Polish academic discourse	1911	(14)
Anna Duszak
Linguistic jokes based on dialect divergence	1925	(10)
Manfred Gorlach
An essay in critical discourse analysis: How can linguists contribute to alleviating conflicts?	1935	(12)
Karol Janicki
Cross sex misunderstanding in different ethnic groups	1947	(14)
Alla P. Martyniouk
Svetlana Bashkireva
Text linguistics, translation and stylistics	1961	(98)
Hamlet's and Hamlet's audiences	1961	(12)
Jacek Fabiszak
From contrastive textology to parallel text corpora: Theory and applications	1973	(16)
Reinhard K. Hartmann
The "trash phenomenon" in Donald Barthelme's Snow White and James Joyce's Finnegans wake	1989	(17)
Andrzej Kopcewicz
Translation process analysis and implications for translation teaching	2006	(14)
Wolfgang Lorscher
Methods and aims of linguistic stylistics	2020	(5)
Jiri Nosek
Gender and translation: Obstacles to the successful transfer of socio-political and cultural phenomena	2025	(10)
Alicja Pisarska
The seduction of Mankind: Some remarks on the validity of linguistic analysis	2035	(10)
Liliana Sikorska
The expatriated phantom: Washington Irving's rhetoric of revolution	2045	(14)
Marek Wilczynski
Varia	2059	(26)
Language imperialism	2059	(16)
Arthur van Essen
Nature or nurture: Are conference interpreters born or made?	2075	(10)
Andrzej Kopczynski
Agnieszka Kowaluk
Index of subjects	2085	(14)
Index of languages	2099	(3)
Index of names	2102