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.