Historical English Word-Formation and Semantics

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Contents: Dieter Kastovsky: English prefixation: A historical sketch - D. Gary Miller: On the history and analysis of V-P nouns - Grzegorz A. Kleparski: Historical semantics: A sketch on new categories and types of semantic change - Hans Sauer: Reginald Pecock and his vocabulary: A preliminary sketch - Magdalena Bator: Verbs of cooking in Middle English: fry, roast and bake - Michael Bilynsky: Unanalysable verb-related coinages as reflected in the OED textual prototypes - Olga Chupryna: Old English sael 'time': Metaphor and metonymy in word and text - Gaye Cinkilic/Helmut Weiss: Historical word formation in German. On the interpretation of N-N compounds - Ewa Ciszek: Middle English decline of the Old English word leode: A case study of the two manuscripts of Laezh amon's Brut - Xavier Dekeyser: Loss of the prototypical meaning related to lexical borrowing. The battle of (near) synonyms: A case study - Bozena Duda: From portcwene to fille de joie: On etymology and the word-formation processes behind the historical lexical representations in the category FALLEN WOMAN in English - Radoslaw Dylewski: The first years of dude. What else can early American newspapers and the COHA tell us about its early meanings and usages? - Camiel Hamans: Historical word-formation caught in the present - changes in modern usage - Robert Kieltyka: Sniff danger and wietrzyc podstep: On the categorization of verbal zoosemy - Malgorzata Klos: Old English poetic diction and the language of death: Circumlocutory terms denoting the sense 'die' in Anglo-Saxon poetry - Beata Kopecka: Whatever the weather - on semantic change and word-formation processes - Anya Kursova: Folk-etymologies: On the way to improving naturalness - Olivier Simonin: The semantics of noun postmodifying to-infinitives in Old English - Marta Sylwanowicz: Names of medicines in Early Modern English medical texts (1500-1700) - Agnieska Wawrzyniak: Metaphors of darkness in The Canterbury Tales - Jerzy Welna: The regional aspects of the distribution of nouns in -ling in Middle English.