ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2008 VOLUME II -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword & Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- a. Dictionaries and reference works -- b. Other abbreviations used in the present volume -- Editors' introduction -- 1. Survey -- 2. Etymology -- 3. Semantic fields -- 4. Word-formation -- 5. Text linguistics, text types, politeness -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Etymology -- Etymology and the OED -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The complexity of historical dictionary entries -- 3. Words with discontinuous histories -- 4. Lexical splits -- 5. Lexical mergers -- 6. An etymology where both meaning and word form suggest a merger: queer -- 7. Change in word form in etymology -- 7.1 Associative change in word form -- 7.2 An unsolved puzzle: polecat -- 7.3 Unresolved phonological difficulty: purse -- 8. Problems of semantic development -- 8.1 Etymologies where no clear semantic connection can be established -- 9. Towards a methodology -- Sources -- References -- On the etymological relationships of wank, swank, and wonky -- Sources -- References -- Base etymology in the historical thesauri of deverbatives in English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The etymological partitioning of synonymous strings of verbs modelled on the OED textual prototypes -- 3. The etymological partitioning of synonymous strings of deverbal coinages -- 3.1 The (sub-)strings of participles -- 3.2 The (sub-)strings of adjectives -- 3.3 The (sub-)strings of second order deverbal coinages -- 3.4 The (sub-)strings of deverbal nouns -- 3.4.1 The suffix(es) uniform (sub-)strings of deverbal nouns -- 4. Diachronically expanding sequences of the etymological (sub-)strings of verbs and their coinages -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 The (sub-)strings of verbs and participles -- 5.2 The (sub-)strings of verbs and adjectives.

5.3 Sequential deficiency of second order suffixal (sub-)strings -- 5.4 The (sub-)strings of verbs and substantives -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Sources -- References -- Part II. Semantic fields -- The global organization of the English lexicon and its evolution -- 1. Theoretical preliminaries -- 2. Small-world networks of nouns and verbs in WordNet -- 3. Small-world networks of nouns and verbs in TOE -- 4. The effects of word frequency -- 5. Implications for brain networks -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Repayment and revenge -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The management of feud in Germanic law -- 3. Legal universals -- 4. Metaphor and metonymy -- 5. Changing concepts of concrete and abstract -- 6. Current developments -- Sources -- References -- Appendix A -- Extracts from TOE = A Thesaurus of Old English (Roberts & Kay 1995) -- Appendix B -- DOE = Dictionary of Old English Project 2008, s.v. for-gyldan -- Semantic change in the domain of the vocabulary of christian clergy -- 1. Statement of purpose -- 2. Discussion -- 2.1 Conceptual link: Function of the office -- 2.2 Conceptual link: Appearance -- 2.3 Conceptual link: Position in hierarchy -- 2.4 Conceptual link: Habitual behaviour -- 3. Concluding remarks -- Sources -- References -- APPENDIX -- Part III. Word-formation -- Abstract noun 'suffixes' and text type in Old English -- 1. Objective and methodology -- 2. Classification of suffixes -- 3. Suffixation in prototypical text categories -- 3.1 General suffix coverage in text categories -- 3.2 Suffixation: Variation and context -- 3.3 Text categories and language change -- 4. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Appendix -- The lexicalisation of syncope -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syncope: The traditional account -- 3. Effect of derivational suffixes -- 4. The problematic derivational affix -ig.

5. The effect of syncope on -ig¹: restructuring in hefig 'heavy' -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Oriented -ingly adjuncts in Late Modern English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Harry Potter adverbs -- 3. Previous analyses -- 4. Harry Potter adverbs in Late Modern English: The ARCHER evidence -- 5. More corpus-based evidence -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Part IV. Textlinguistics, text types, politeness -- Historical text linguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The field of study -- 3. Texts and genres in the history of English: Perspectives of linguistic research -- 3.1 Historical Text Linguistics proper -- 3.2 Diachronically oriented text linguistics -- 3.3 Text-oriented historical linguistics -- 4. Towards a history of English as a history of its genres: The domain of religion -- 4.1 Theoretical preliminaries -- 4.1.1 Genres, text types and text functions -- 4.1.2 An approach to texts and genres in the history of English -- 4.2 Locating genres in the religious domain -- 4.3 Functional profiles in religious genres -- 4.4 Linguistic profiles in religious genres -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Repetitive and therefore fixed? -- 1. Text-type standardisation -- 2. Investigating the link between repetition and fixedness -- 3. Extracting fixed lexical strings and their functional interpretation -- 4. The corpus and the method -- 5. Semantic and functional categorisation of lemmatic bundles -- 5.1 Expressions relating to the field: External reality -- 5.2 Expressions relating to the tenor: Author reality, participant reality -- 5.3 Expressions relating to the mode: Channel reality -- 6. Conclusions -- Sources -- References -- Appendix -- Folder codes -- Politeness Strategies in Late Middle English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Address forms in The Book of Margery Kempe -- 3. Indirect requests in The Book of Margery Kempe.

4. Address forms in Julian's Revelations -- 5. Indirect requests in Julian's Revelations -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- A diachronic discussion of extenders in English remedies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Description of data -- 3. Medical Recipes -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Adjunctive general extenders -- 4.2 Disjunctive general extenders -- 5. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- "It is with a trembling hand I beg to intrude this letter" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Socio-cultural background -- 3. Theoretical framework -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Analysis and discussion -- 5.1 Salutations -- 5.2 Subscriptions -- 5.3 Pre-close -- 5.4 Content -- 5.4.1 Negative politeness strategies -- 5.4.1.1 Give freedom of action through indirectness -- 5.4.1.2 Minimize imposition through apologies or admission of impingement -- 5.4.1.3 Dissociate S and R from act -- 5.4.2 Positive politeness strategies -- 5.4.2.1 Claim a common ground -- 5.4.2.2 Fulfill receiver's wants -- 5.4.2.3 Focus on cooperation -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Genre analysis -- 1. A short history of the English research article since 1665 -- 2. RA sections -- 3. RA introductions -- 4. A case study of two RA introductions -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- Sources -- References -- Index.