ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1992 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- FOREWORD -- Table of contents -- 1. GENERAL ISSUES -- LINGUISTICS, PHILOLOGY, CHICKENS ANDEGGS -- REFERENCES -- CAN CATASTROPHE THEORY PROVIDE ADEQUATE EXPLANATIONS FOR LINGUISTIC CHANGE? An application to syntactic change in English -- REFERENCES. -- POSTDISCIPLINARY PHILOLOGY: CULTURALLY RELATIVISTIC PRAGMATICS -- REFERENCES -- PREMISSES AND PERIODS IN A HISTORY OFENGLISH -- REFERENCES -- LINGUISTIC REALITY OF MIDDLE ENGLISH -- REFERENCES -- 2. PHONOLOGY AND WRITING -- OLD ENGLISH STRESS: AMORPHOUS? -- 1. The Question -- 2. Some Problems -- 3. Alternative analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT REVISITED -- REFERENCES -- TOWARDS A STANDARD WRITTEN ENGLISH?Continuity and change in the orthographic usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393-1464) -- REFERENCES -- ON THE WRITING OF THE HISTORY OF STANDARD ENGLISH -- 1. Introduction: an analogy -- 2. The rôle of contemporary language status of prestige, when consideringhistorical linguistics -- 3. Standardization (as she has been wrote) -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 3. MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX -- GRAMMATICAL CHOICES IN OLD AND EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH: A choice between a simple verb, the prefix/particle-verbor verb-particle combination, and the "auxiliary + infinitive" construction in Old and early Middle English -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT EXTRACTION IN ENGLISH: THE USE OF THE THAT-COMPLEMENTIZER -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material -- 3. The that+gap/zero+gap variation -- 4. The gap/resumptive variation -- REFERENCES -- THE MODALS AGAIN IN THE LIGHT OFHISTORICAL AND CROSS-LINGUISTICEVIDENCE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Do the ModE 'modals' represent a novel re-categorization in New English? -- 2. The emergence of periphrastic DO and its relation to the 'modals'.

3. Parameter re-setting in the 17th century? Weaknesses and assumptions inthe theoretical apparatus of Government and Binding theory (GB). -- REFERENCES -- OE AND ME MULTIPLE NEGATION: SOME SYNTACTIC AND STYLISTIC REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Ø-RELATIVESWITH ANTECEDENT pÆT AND FREE RELATIVES IN OE AND ME -- REFERENCES -- BE vs. HAVE WITH INTRANSITIVES IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH -- 1. The BE/HAVE paradigm -- 2. Outline of development. -- 3. Analysis and results. -- 4. Final remarks. -- REFERENCES -- INFINITIVE MARKING IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Separation between infinitive and governing verb -- 3. Fronting of a constituent belonging to the infinitive clause -- REFERENCES -- 4. LEXICOLOGY AND SEMANTICS -- DOG- MAN'S BEST FRIEND: A STUDY IN HISTORICAL LEXICOLOGY -- 1. Connotations of the lexeme "DOG" -- 2. Data-base -- 3. The historical development of the lexical field udog" -- 4. The exploitation of the lexical field "dog" in eModE literature -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- EMOTIONS IN THE ENGLISH LEXICON: A HISTORICAL STUDY OF A LEXICAL FIELD -- REFERENCES -- THE SCANDINAVIAN ELEMENTS IN THE VOCABULARY OF THE PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE -- REFERENCES -- PRODUCTIVE OR NOT PRODUCTIVE? The Romance Element inMiddle English Derivation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining productivity -- 3. The data -- 4. Productivity factors and the Middle English data -- 5. Existing hybrids -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS -- REFERENCES -- "...ASE ROSER WHEN HIT REDES": Semantic shifts and cultural overtones in the Middle English colour lexicon -- 1. Ambiguous pairs -- 2. The red area -- 3. Paraphrase and periphrasis -- REFERENCES -- 5. VARIETIES OF ENGLISH AND STUDIES ON INDIVIDUAL TEXTS -- PROTOTYPE CATEGORIES AND VARIATION STUDIES -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Discreteness or prototypicality.

3. Fuzzy edges and quantification: indefinite pronouns with singular humanreference. -- 4. Relative markers andprototypicality. -- 5. Discussion and Conclusion. -- REFERENCES -- WHAT DOES THE JUNGLE OF MIDDLE ENGLISH MANUSCRIPTS TELL US? On ME Words for 'Every' and 'Each' with Special Reference to their Many Variants -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Data. -- 3. Old English 'every' and 'each'. -- 4. Middle English 'every' and 'each'. -- 5. Conclusion. -- REFERENCES -- LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The generalization of titles in Early Modern English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview -- 3. A ease study: the trial of Lady Alice Lisle -- 4. The linguistic process. -- 5. Conclusion. -- REFERENCES -- ON THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFICWRITINGS FROM 1375 TO 1675: Repertoire of emotive features -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material of the study -- 3. Involvement and emotionality -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- MULTIPLE AUTHORSHIP OF THE OE OROSIUS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Results -- 3. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- "AFTER A COPYE UNTO ME DELYVERD": Multiple negation in Malory's Morte Darthur -- REFERENCES -- 6. INDEXES -- INDEX NOMINUM -- INDEX RERUM.