
English Historical Linguistics 2010 : Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pecs, 23-27 August 2010.
Title:
English Historical Linguistics 2010 : Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pecs, 23-27 August 2010.
Author:
Hegedus, Irén.
ISBN:
9789027273192
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (394 pages)
Series:
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory ; v.325
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Contents:
ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2010 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword & Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Dialect formation and regional variation in the history of English: Refining theory -- 2. Inter- and transdisciplinary vistas in English historical linguistics: Refining methods and tools -- 3. Syntactic variation and grammatical change in the history of English -- 4. When texts talk: Speech-related genres in historical pragmatics -- References -- Part I. Approaches to dialects and regional variation -- Norse influence on English in the light of general contact linguistics -- 1. Language-specific and general assessments -- 2. Lexical influence -- 2.1 Cultural borrowing vs. superstratal influence: A comparative overview -- 2.2 The Norse superstratum and its historical foundation -- 2.2.1 Old Norse legal loans -- 2.2.2 Old Norse terms denoting ranks of society -- 2.2.3 Concluding remarks on the loans attested in Old English text -- 2.3 The character of the Middle English loans with very basic meanings -- 3. Middle English and Modern English as a Norse creole? -- 4. Structural influence -- 4.1 The close genetic relationship with Old Norse and its consequences for structural influence -- 4.2 The borrowing of function words -- 4.3 The 'rise' of the English phrasal verb and the question of Old Norse influence -- 4.4 The question of Old Norse influence on word order change -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- The Germanic roots of the old English sound system -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The grouping of the Germanic dialects: Three models -- 3. A comparison between the Gothic and the Early Runic sound systems -- 3.1 The accented vowel systems -- 3.2 The unaccented vowel systems -- 3.3 The consonant systems -- 3.4 A summary -- 4. Early Runic and the Old Norse and Old English sound systems.
5. The phonology of Old English, Old Frisian and Old Saxon compared -- 5.1 Anglo-Frisian and North-Sea Germanic (Ingveonic) -- 5.2 Accented vowels -- 5.2.1 Old English -- 5.2.2 Old Frisian -- 5.2.3 Old Saxon accented vowel system -- 5.2.4 The Old English, Old Frisian and Old Saxon vowel systems compared -- 5.2.5 Concluding remarks -- 5.3 Unaccented vowels -- 5.3.1 Old English -- 5.3.2 Old Frisian -- 5.3.3 The Old Saxon unaccented vowels -- 5.4 Consonants -- 6. Summary -- References -- Monetary policy and old english dialects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Old English dialects (noch einmal) -- 3. The coinage at issue -- 4. Moneyers -- 5. The linguistic content of the coins: Old English personal names -- 5.1 Personal names and common words -- 5.2 Names as names -- 6. On forms of moneyers' names from Kent and East Anglia -- 6.1 The data -- 6.2 Old English dialects (noch einmal) and the coin-forms -- 7. Conclusion -- 8. Post script -- References -- The order and schedule of nominal plural formation transfer in three Southern dialects of Early Middle English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of development in Early Middle English -- 3. Lexical diffusion -- 4. Analysis of three Southern dialects -- 4.1 Focus on three Southern dialects -- 4.2 South-East Midland: C12b to C13b -- 4.3 South-West Midland: C13a to C13b -- 4.4 Southwestern: C14a to C14b -- 5. Southern spread of -s and lexical diffusion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- The temporal and regional contexts of the numeral 'two' in Middle English -- 1. The numeral 'two' in Old English -- 2. The numeral 'two' in Middle English -- 3. West Midland (1150-ca. 1400) -- 4. Southern (Kent, Southwestern, South Midland) (1150-1400+) -- 5. East Midland (ca. 1150-1500+) -- 6. London (ca. 1375-1475+) -- 7. North (ca. 1400-1450+) and Irish (ca. 1425) -- 8. Summary -- References -- Primary sources.
Secondary sources -- Part II. Syntactic variation in focus -- Grammaticalisation, Contact and Corpora -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Old English -- 3. Middle English -- 4. Early Modern English -- 5. Late Modern English -- 6. Final remarks -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Discourse organization and the rise of final then in the history of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpus -- 3. The functions of then from OE to EModE -- 4. The origin of final then -- 5. Hypotaxis vs. parataxis -- 6. Subjectification and intersubjectification -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- The Origins of how come and what…for -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How come -- 2.1 Formal development -- 2.2 Semantic development -- 3. What … for -- 3.1 Formal development -- 3.2 Semantics -- 4. Lexicalisation or grammaticalisation? -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources. -- "Providing/Provided That" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The verb provide: Etymology and senses -- 3. Participle conjunction -- 4. The possible pathway of grammaticalization -- 5. The Romance origin of the phrase -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Prefer -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why the 'odd verb out'? -- 3. The early history of 'prefer' -- 4. Clausal complements with prefer -- 5. Explicit or implicit comparison? -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Part III. Grammatical changes in nominal and pronominal constructions -- The 400 million word corpus of Historical American English (1810-2009) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical change -- 3. Morphological change -- 4. Phraseological change -- 5. Syntactic change -- 6. Semantic change -- 7. Conclusion: size and architecture -- 7.1 Corpus size -- 7.2 Corpus granularity -- 7.3 Corpus architecture -- References.
Gender change from old to middle English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research -- 2.1 Semantic theories of gender-reassignment -- 2.2 Grammatical theory for gender-reassignment -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Desiderata regarding the textual basis -- 3.2 Textual basis -- 3.3 Method -- 3.4 Variables -- 3.4.1 Extralinguistic Predictor -- 3.4.2 Semantic Predictors -- 3.4.3 Formal predictors -- 3.5 Logistic Regression -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Regression Analyses -- 5. Discussion -- References -- "Please tilt me-ward by return of post" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A brief history of the ward(s) construction -- 2.1 A short history of adverbial endings -- 2.2 The constructional development -- 2.3 Constructional extensions and variations -- 3. The pronoun-ward(s) construction in diachrony -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Why the construction started with third person forms -- 4.2 A deictic center shift and (inter-)subjectification -- 4.3 Why the construction faded out -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Glossing conventions -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary sources -- Part IV. The integration of loanwords in Middle English -- Multilingualism in the vocabulary of dress and textiles in Late Medieval Britain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain c.700-1450 -- 3. Multilingualism in Medieval Britain -- 4. Medieval dress and textile vocabulary in unpublished sources -- 4.1 New or unique attestations -- 4.2 Code-switches -- 4.2.1 Single-word switches -- 4.2.2 Code-switching within specific semantic subcategories -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary sources -- "No man entreth in or out" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Borrowed path-verbs in a satellite-framed language -- 2.1 Findings and suggestions from second language acquisition -- 2.2 Findings from cognitive linguistics -- 3. Hypothesis.
4. Middle English entren -- 4.1 Frequency -- 4.2 Literal and non-literal uses -- 4.3 Types of literal uses -- 5. Enter in Late Middle and Early Modern English letters (CEECS) -- 6. Outlook: Other borrowed path-verbs -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Part V. Investigating communicative intensions in historical discourse -- Beyond questions and answers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background: Footing -- 3. Data and background of the case -- 4.Courtroom narrative analysis -- 4.1 Direct examination -- 4.2 Cross-examination -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- The Demise of Gog and Cock and Their Phraseologies in Dramatic Discourse -- 1. Statement of purpose and preliminary remarks -- 2. Results of the searches and the structure of phrases -- 3. Distribution of the phrases in time -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Dictionaries -- Secondary sources -- Index.
Abstract:
The use of linguistic forms derived from the lexicon denoting sacred entities is often subject to tabooing behaviour. In the 15th and 16th century phrases like by gogges swete body or by cockes bones allowed speakers to address God without really saying the name; cf. Hock (1991: 295). The religious interjections based on the phonetically corrupt gog and cock are evidenced to have gained currency in the 16th century. In the 17th century all interjections based on religious appellations ceased to appear on stage in accordance with the regulations of the Act to Restrain Abuses of Players and never returned to stage. While, with the loosening grip of censorship, God and Gad interjections are abundant in the drama texts of the 18th and 19th centuries. The present article attempts to explain the reasons for the disappearance of gog and cock interjections in the course of the 17th century. Additionally, the article contains remarks on the socio-pragmatics of gog and cock and their phraseological productivity.
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