Hegedűs Irén, Fodor Alexandra (Eds.). English Historical Linguistics 2010

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. — 395 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 325).Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010The volume brings together seventeen peer-reviewed, revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), held in August 2010 at the University of Pécs, Hungary. This selection aims to show how theoretical and empirical approaches can be combined in the historical investigation of the English language, what insights and exact information can be obtained about language change in the history of English with the help of tools like historical corpora or with inter- and transdisciplinary methods. The volume is arranged around five thematic headings. The first discusses dialects and regional variation from the viewpoint of contact linguistics and phonological, morphological, and lexical change. The second has syntactic variation and grammaticalization as its focus. Papers on grammatical changes in nominal and pronominal constructions are presented in part three. The integration of loanwords in Middle English is discussed in part four, and the last investigates communicative intentions in historical discourse.
The volume should appeal to linguists interested in historical aspects of dialect and discourse studies, historical pragmatics, contact linguistics, grammaticalization theory, corpus linguistics, and of course language change.Introduction: Coins, clothes and corpora: Ways and means to refine investigations into the history of English - Irén Hegedűs and Alexandra Fodor
Norse influence on English in the light of general contact linguistics - Angelika Lutz
The Germanic roots of the Old English sound system - Hans Frede Nielsen
Monetary policy and Old English dialects - Fran Colman
The order and schedule of nominal plural formation transfer in three Southern dialects of Early Middle English - Ryuichi Hotta
The temporal and regional contexts of the numeral ‘two’ in Middle English - Jerzy Welna
Grammaticalisation, contact and corpora: On the development of adverbial connectives in English - Matti Rissanen
Discourse organization and the rise of final then in the history of English - Alexander Haselow
The origins of how come and what…for - Claudia Claridge
“Providing/provided that”: Grammaticalization or loan translation? - Rafal Molencki
Prefer: The odd verb out - Thomas Egan
The 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (1810–2009) - Mark Davies
Gender change from Old to Middle English - Florian Dolberg
“Please tilt me-ward by return of post”: On the vicissitude of a marginal pronominal construction in the history of English - Reijirou Shibasaki
Multilingualism in the vocabulary of dress and textiles in late medieval Britain: Some issues for historical lexicology - Mark Chambers and Louise Sylvester
“No man entreth in or out”: How are typologically unsuitable loanverbs integrated into English? - Judith Huber
Beyond questions and answers: Strategic use of multiple identities in the historical courtroom - Krisda Chaemsaithong
The demise of gog and cock and their phraseologies in dramatic discourse: A study into historical pragmatics of tabooistic distortions - Sylwester Lodej