Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and Beyond: Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Welna on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

ISBN-13: 9783631633847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 402 str.

Joanna Esquibel; Anna Wojtys

Opis

The volume, inspired by Professor Welna's life-long studies in historical linguistics, brings together scholars researching topics in various fields of the history of the English language. Nine chapters devoted to different linguistic disciplines gather articles covering sound and spelling changes, historical word-formation processes, selected semantic domains, and manuscript variants. In the broader perspective the book addresses the history of linguistic thought with authors incorporating different tools of analysis in historical research.

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Contents: Malgorzata Klos: Happy birþe - on the appearance of the noun birþe in Middle English - Rafal Molencki: Some woolly remarks about wool - Agnieszka Kocel: Palatalization and distribution of (non-)palatal forms as exemplified by Northern Middle English grammatical words - Joanna Przedlacka: A historical study of Voice Onset Time in Received Pronunciation - Piotr Ruszkiewicz: On (non-)deriving the agma in Present-Day English - Albertas Steponavicius: Notes on paradigmatic phonologization - Anna Budna: The present participle mark-ing in mediaeval London: a corpus study - John G. Newman: The partitive genitive with higher numerals in Old and Middle English - Merja Stenroos: The gender of loanwords in Southwest Midland texts of the thirteenth century - Bernhard Diensberg: The grapheme combination «qu». Its origin and function in English - Joanna Kopaczyk: The meanders of spelling, or Another look at early Middle Scots «ai/ay» digraphs - Joanna Esquibel/Anna Wojtys: Following Welna's quest for (dis)appearing dental stops: t-insertion in Middle and Early Modern English correspondence - Ewa Ciszek: Words denoting 'kingdom' in La amon's Brut - Marcin Krygier: Vernacularisation of the lexicon in the Wycliffe Bible: The Book of Ruth in MSS. CCC 4 and BL Royal I. C. VIII - Hans Sauer: Old English plant names with suffixes, especially the suffix -el - Kinga Sadej-Sobolewska: Tide and time in Middle English dialects - Sylwester Lodej: Poland in the illustrative quotations of the Oxford English Dictionary - Justyna Karczmarczyk: Three terms denoting dragons in Middle English poetry and prose. Dragon, drake and worm - Grzegorz Andrzej Kleparski/Malgorzata Górecka-Smolinska: The meanderings of MAMMAL and BIRD symbolism in the context of semantic change - Barbara Kowalik: Who painted the mouse and who the vixen? Female animals in fables by Robert Henryson and Biernat of Lublin - Xavier Dekeyser: From Old English BUTAN to present-day BUT. A textbook case of grammaticalization - Magdalena Tomaszewska: On the auxiliary status of dare in Middle English: a corpus based study - Mariusz Beclawski: Semantic change in linguistics: A synopsis of the main approaches throughout the 19th and 20th centuries - Marta Sylwanowicz: Clene inwit or fule saule? A study of evaluative developments in the domain of CLEANLINESS - Michael Bilynsky: The present-day and historical synonymy of English verbs: sequential similarity by the OED textual prototypes - Natalia Budohoska: Linguistic situation in Kenya according to Labov's social factors - Mateusz Sarnecki: Prepositional complementation in five varieties of English: A corpus-based study.