Dury Richard, Gotti Maurizio, Dossena Marina (Eds.). English Historical Linguistics 2006: Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — 288 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 296).Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, and dialectology, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on semantics, pragmatics and register variation. A rich variety of state-of-the-art studies and plenary lectures by acknowledged world experts in the field bears witness to the quality of the scholarly interest in this field of research. In all the contributions, well-established methods combine with new theoretical approaches, in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. The accurate peer-reviewed selection ensures the methodological homogeneity of the papers.Pragmatic and Stylistic Choices
Politeness in the history of English - Andreas H. Jucker
The which is most and right harde to answere: Intensifying right and most in earlier English - Belén Méndez-Naya
The diachronic development of the intensifier bloody: A case study in historical pragmatics - Stefania Biscetti
Variation and change in the writings of 17th century scientists - Lilo MoessnerLexical and Semantic Change
The convergence of two need verbs in Middle English - Lucía Loureiro-Porto
Rivalry among the verbs of wanting - Minoji Akimoto
A look at respect: Investigating metonymies in Earle Modern English - Heli Tissari
Germanic vs French fixed expressions in Middle English prose: Towards a corpus-based historical English phraseology - Manfred Markus
Latin loanwords of the early modern period: How often did French act as an intermediary? - Philip Durkin
Disseisin: The lexeme and the legal fact in Early Middle English - R.W. McConchie
Was Old Frech -able borrowable? A diachronic study of word-formation processes due to language contact - Carola Trips and Achim Stein
Women and other 'small things': -ette as a feminine marker - Lucia Kornexl