English Historical Linguistics 2010

Abstract

1. Foreword & Acknowledgements 2. Introduction: Coins, clothes and corpora: Ways and means to refine investigations into the history of English (by Hegedus, Iren) 3. Norse influence on English in the light of general contact linguistics (by Lutz, Angelika) 4. The Germanic roots of the Old English sound system (by Nielsen, Hans Frede) 5. Monetary policy and Old English dialects (by Colman, Fran) 6. The order and schedule of nominal plural formation transfer in three Southern dialects of Early Middle English (by Hotta, Ryuichi) 7. The temporal and regional contexts of the numeral 'two' in Middle English (by Welna, Jerzy) 8. Grammaticalisation, contact and corpora: On the development of adverbial connectives in English (by Rissanen, Matti) 9. Discourse organization and the rise of final then in the history of English (by Haselow, Alexander) 10. The origins of how come and what...for (by Claridge, Claudia) 11. Providing/provided that: Grammaticalization or loan translation? (by Molencki, Rafal) 12. Prefer: The odd verb out (by Egan, Thomas) 13. The 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (1810-2009) (by Davies, Mark) 14. Gender change from Old to Middle English (by Dolberg, Florian) 15. Please tilt me-ward by return of post: On the vicissitude of a marginal pronominal construction in the history of English (by Shibasaki, Reijirou) 16. Multilingualism in the vocabulary of dress and textiles in late medieval Britain: Some issues for historical lexicology (by Chambers, Mark) 17. No man entreth in or out: How are typologically unsuitable loanverbs integrated into English? (by Huber, Judith) 18. Beyond questions and answers: Strategic use of multiple identities in the historical courtroom (by Chaemsaithong, Krisda) 19. The demise of gog and cock and their phraseologies in dramatic discourse: A study into historical pragmatics of tabooistic distortions (by Lodej, Sylwester) 20. Index