Language History and Linguistic Modelling

A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on his 60th Birthday

Raymond Hickey, Stanislav Puppel

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9783110145045
• eBook ISBN: 9783110820751
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Grammar & Punctuation
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This work presents a collection of some 130 contributions covering a wide range of topics of interest to historical, theoretical and applied linguistics alike. A major theme is the development of English which is examined on several levels in the light of recent linguistic theory in various papers. The geographical dimension is also treated extensively with papers on controversial aspects of a variety of studies, as are topical linguistic matters from a more general perspective.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Curriculum vitae
• List of publications
• I Language history The history of English
• Phonetics/Phonology
• Phonaesthesia and other forms of word play
• Middle English phonology without the syllable
• Chaucerian phonemics: Evidence and interpretation
• The hiatus in English historical phonology
• Early Modern English vowel shortenings in monosyllables before dentals: A morphologically conditioned sound change?
• The metrical prominence hierarchy in Old English verse
• Morphology
• The issue of double modals in the history of English revisited
• The evolution of definite and indefinite articles in English
• The morphology and dialect of Old English disyllabic nouns
• The root of the matter: OE wyrt, wyrtwale, -a, wyrt(t)rum(a) and cognates
• Nominal markedness changes in three Old and Middle English psalters — using the past to predict the past
• The instrumental in Old English
• Cumulative phenomena between prefixes and verbs in Old English
• Morphological variation and change in Early Modern English: my/mine, thy/thine
• The genitive and the category of case in the history of English
• Weak-to-strong: A shift in English verbs?
• Chaucer’s compound nouns: Patterns and productivity
• Syntax
• Subjecthood and the English impersonal
• The grammaticalisation of infinitival to in English compared with German and Dutch
• -THING in English: A case of grammaticalization?
• Topics in Old and Middle English negative sentences
• Topicalization in Old English and its effects. Some remarks
• “Therfor speke playnly to the poynt”: Punctuation in Robert Keayne’s notes of church meetings from early Boston, New England
• ME can and gan in context
• Economy as a principle of syntactic change
• Optional THAT with subordinators in Middle English
• Relative clauses in Thomas Browne: On the way to standard syntax
• Subject-oriented adverbs in a diachronic and contrastive perspective
• The concept of the macrosyntagm in Early Modern English prison narratives
• Object-verb word order in 16th century English: A study of its frequency and status
• Lexis
• Three etymological cruxes: Early Middle English cang ‘fool(ish)’ and (Early) Middle English cangun/conjoun ‘fool’, Middle English crois versus cross and Early Modern English clown
• “With this ring I thee wed”: The verbs to wed and to marry in the history of English
• The ‘Hard Words’ of Levins’ dictionary
• From Jabberwocky back to Old English: Nonsense, Anglo-Saxon and Oxford
• “To make merry”, its variants in Middle English, and the Helsinki Corpus
• Translation as enrichment of language in sixteenth century England: The Courtyer (1561) by Sir Thomas Hoby
• Re-examining the influence of Scandinavian on English: The case of ditch/dike
• Forget-me-not - an English plant name of European lineage
• Some East Anglian dialect words in the light of historical toponymy
• Word-formation and the text in Early English: The axiological functions of Old English prefixes
• Varieties, past and present
• The battle at ‘Acleah’: A linguist’s reflection on annals 851 and 871 of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• What to call a name? Problems of “head-forms” for Old English personal names
• Laʒamon’s idiolect
• The influence of English upon Scottish writing
• The dialects of Middle English
• The Northern paradigm and its implications for scribal grammar in Þe Wohnunge of Ure Lauerd
• Punctuation in the Middle English prose legend of St Faith in MS Southwell Minster 7
• Derivation of it from Þat in eastern dialects of British English
• Social embedding of linguistic changes in Tudor English
• On the representation of English low vowels
• The possessive adjective as involvement marker in colonial Virginia cookeries
• British vernacular dialects in the formation of American English: The case of East Anglian do
• On negation in dialectal English
• General
• English historical linguistics and philology in Japan 1950-1994: A survey with a list of publications arranged in chronological order
• Knowledge of Old English in the Middle English period?
• By Saint Tanne: Pious oaths or swearing in Middle English? An assessment of genres
• Historical linguistics
• Language groups and families
• On the linguistic prehistory of Finno-Ugric
• The development of the Germanic suffix -isk-
• A case of divergent phonological evolution in West Germanic
• Some West Indo-European words of uncertain origin
• The history of linguistics
• Baudouin de Courtenay on Lautgesetze
• ‘Speculative’ historical linguistics
• Language contact, language history and history of linguistics: John Palsgrave’s “Anglo-French” grammar (1530)
• Language contact and change Contact
• Cross-dialectal parallels and language contacts: Evidence from Celtic Englishes
• A note on the use of data from non-standard varieties of English in linguistic argumentation
• Arguments for creolisation in Irish English
• Romance Germanic contact and the peripheral vowel feature
• The cline of creoleness in negation patterns of Caribbean English creoles
• Change
• How languages living apart together may innovate their systems (as illustrated by to in Russian)
• Lexical diffusion and evolution theory
• Types and tokens in language change: Some evidence from Romance
• A sound change in progress?
• Grammatical ambiguity and language change
• II Linguistic modelling
• General
• The Focus Null Hypothesis and the head-direction parameter: Word compounding, numerals, and proper names
• A theory of rection
• Principles of cognitive grammar
• On the functioning of rules of adjustment in generative grammar
• Licensing of bare NP adjuncts
• Adjunction to IP and NP: Evidence from Polish
• Phonetics /Phonology
• Irish “tense” sonorants and licensing of empty positions
• Tone in second language acquisition
• Govern or perish: Sequences of empty nuclei in Polish
• The theory of universal vowel space and the Norwegian and Polish vowel systems
• Alignment in Polish
• A feature geometric analysis of palatalization in English
• Morphology
• Problematical plural forms in French
• Recursivity in the inflectional morphology of English and German dialects
• Inalienable possession in English, Irish and Polish morphology
• Universals, typology, and modularity in Natural Morphology
• Syntax
• Some syntax and a little theology
• Supplementive adjective clauses in English
• One speaker's verbs
• Some notes on grammatical function indicators across languages
• Telicity as a perfectivising category: Notes on aspectual distinctions in English and Polish
• It all cruises to a close: On agentive/middle verbs, analytic constructions and iconicity
• What is double about double modals?
• Effects of mood loss and aspect gain on English tenses
• The spread of the going-to-future in written English: A corpus-based investigation into language change in progress
• Any or no: Functional spread of non-assertive any
• On the syntactic status of żelthat and its implications for the theory of phrase structure in Polish
• Semantics
• Organization of the foreign language mental lexicon
• On the logic of implicational universals
• The exculpation of the Conduit Metaphor
• Entailment and modality
• On the distinction between semantic and encyclopaedic information
• Crosslinguistic aspects of the mental lexicon
• Shall we “re-consider”? A look at the pragmatics of the semantics of re-
• Pragmatics
• How do you know what I’m talking about? On the semantics and pragmatics of referring
• Sitting: Between pragmatics and etymology
• Contrastive linguistics and language acquisition
• Tertium comparationis and contrastive linguistics
• The historical-contrastive linguistics interface and noun morphology in contact situations
• Grammaticalization and social convergence in second language acquisition
• Clippings in modern French, English, German and Dutch
• English-Polish Dictionary of Idioms: The computing background
• Manner adverbials in English and Arabic
• First-language maintenance among twentieth century Polish immigrants to France, the United States, and New Zealand
• Foreign elements in German and French trade names
• Radically simplified phonetic transcription for Polglish speakers
• Same versus different crosslinguistically: The articles in English, Spanish and Hebrew
• Cognitive grammar for contrastive linguistics: A case study of indirect speech in English and Polish
• Metalanguage and interlanguage
• The pragmatics of new words and their translation from English into Russian
• Discourse analysis
• Reduction and elaboration in Polish academic discourse
• Linguistic jokes based on dialect divergence
• An essay in critical discourse analysis: How can linguists contribute to alleviating conflicts?
• Cross sex misunderstanding in different ethnic groups
• Text linguistics, translation and stylistics
• Hamlet’s and Hamlet’s audiences
• From contrastive textology to parallel text corpora: Theory and applications
• The “trash phenomenon” in Donald Barthelme’s Snow White and James Joyce’s Finnegans wake
• Translation process analysis and implications for translation teaching
• Methods and aims of linguistic stylistics
• Gender and translation: Obstacles to the successful transfer of socio-political and cultural phenomena
• The seduction of Mankind: Some remarks on the validity of linguistic analysis
• The expatriated phantom: Washington Irving’s rhetoric of revolution
• Varia
• Language imperialism
• Nature or nurture: Are conference interpreters born or made?
• Index of subjects
• Index of languages
• Index of names