Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond
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Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond

Festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday

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Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond

Festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday

About this book

This Festschrift comprises a series of papers written in honour of the philologist Andreas Fischer, on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. As in Andreas Fischer's own research, the main focus of the volume is on words: words in modern varieties, such as emergent conjunctions in Australian, American and British English, words in their cultural and historical context, such as English keywords in Old Norse literature, and words in a diachronic perspective, such as Romance suffixation in the history of English. Many contributions are anchored in the philological tradition that has informed much of Andreas Fischer's own scholarship, such as the study of verbal duelling in the late thirteenth-century romance Kyng Alisaunder. Others examine the construction ofdiscourses, such as those surrounding the Black Death. The volume, with its innovative studies, offers fascinating insights into words, discourses, and their contexts, both past and present.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. List of Publications by Andreas Fischer
  4. Two Old English Prose Riddles of the EleventhCentury
  5. Discourse about DiglossiaSwiss German and Standard Germanin the Newspapers
  6. Cultural Translation and the Agonistic Vocabulary ofKyng Alisaunder
  7. Discourse, matrix and genre in Historical Semantics:ofermōd and emotion
  8. Melancholy Accidents in Early English Newspapers
  9. “What’s in a name?”Names and terms of address in Shakespeare’s Romeoand Juliet
  10. Recursiveness in Word-FormationGrammatical, Conceptual and Typological Factors
  11. English Keywords in Old Norse Literature
  12. Emergent Conjunctions
  13. Romance Suffixation in the History of EnglishNew Ways of Solving an Old Problem
  14. Words and the New EnglishesBorrowing as Evidence of Contactand Ancestral Effects
  15. The Function of the Sword-Hilt Inscription inBeowulf
  16. On the History of try with Verbal Complements
  17. The Black Death and the Development of EnglishA Tale of Two Archives