Fernández Francisco, Fuster Miguel, Calvo Juan Jose (Eds.). English Historical Linguistics 1992

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994. — 397 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 113).Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia. The book opens with a general section, in which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe theory, Roger Sell suggests a pragmatic analysis of historical data, and Norman Blake and Jacek Fisiak re-open the debate on periodization in the history of English. The rest of the papers is grouped in four sections: Phonology and Writing, Morphology and Syntax, Lexicology and Semantics, and Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts. An index of names and a subject index complete the volume.General Issues
Linguistics, Philology, Chickens and Eggs - Richard M. Hogg
Can Catastrophe Theory Provide Adequate Explanations for Linguistic Change? An application to syntactic change in English - Enrique Bernárdez
Postdisciplinary Philology: Culturally relativistic pragmatics - Roger D. Sell
Premisses and Periods in a History of English - Norman F. Blake
Linguistic Reality of Middle English - Jacek FisiakPhonology and Writing
Old English Stress: Amorphous? - Fran Colman
The Great Vowel Shift Revisited - Trinidad Guzman
Towards a Standard Written English? Continuity and change in the orthographic usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393–1464) - Peter G. Lucas
On the Writing of the History of Standard English - Laura WrightMorphology and Syntax
Grammatical Choices in Old and Early Middle English: A choice between a simple verb, the prefix/particle-verb or verb-particle combination, and the “auxiliary + infinitive” construction in Old and early Middle English - Michiko Ogura
Subject Extraction in English: The use of the that-complementizer - Gunnar Bergh and Aimo Seppänen
The Modals Again in the Light of Historical and Cross-Linguistic Evidence - Juan Manuel de la Cruz
OE and ME Multiple Negation: Some syntactic and stylistic remarks - Gabriella Mazzon
ø-relatives with Antecedent @ and Free Relatives in OE and ME - Concha Castillo
Be vs. Have with Intransitives in Early Modern English - Merja Kytö
Infinitive Marking in Early Modern English - Teresa FanegoLexicology and Semantics
Dog — Man’s Best Friend: A study in historical lexicology - Lilo Moessner
Emotions in the English Lexicon: A historical study of a lexical field - Hans-Jürgen Diller
The Scandinavian Element in the Vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle - Veronika Kniezsa
Productive or Non-productive? The Romance element in Middle English derivation - Christiane Dalton-Puffer
Remarks on the Origin and Evolution of Abbreviations and Acronyms - Félix Rodríguez González and Garland Cannon
“Ase roser when hit redes”: Semantic shifts and cultural overtones in the Middle English colour lexicon - Nicola PantaleoVarieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts
Prototype Categories and Variation Studies - Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
What does the Jungle of Middle English Manuscripts Tell Us? On ME words for ‘every’ and ‘each’ with special reference to their many variants - Leena Kahlas-Tarkka
Ladies and gentlemen: the generalization of titles in early modern English - Terttu Nevalainen
On the revolution of scientific writings from 1375 to 1675: repertoire of emotive features - Irma Taavitsainen
Multiple authorship of the OE Orosius - Sakari Louhivaara
“After a copye unto Me Delyverd”: multiple negation in Malory’s Morte Darthur - Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade