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English Historical Linguistics 2008 : Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, texts and genres.
The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of text-ty...
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2012.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory.
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- ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2008 VOLUME II; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword & Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; a. Dictionaries and reference works; b. Other abbreviations used in the present volume; Editors' introduction; 1. Survey; 2. Etymology; 3. Semantic fields; 4. Word-formation; 5. Text linguistics, text types, politeness; 6. Conclusion; References; Part I: Etymology; Etymology and the OED; 1. Introduction; 2. The complexity of historical dictionary entries; 3. Words with discontinuous histories; 4. Lexical splits; 5. Lexical mergers.
- 6. An etymology where both meaning and word form suggest a merger: queer7. Change in word form in etymology; 7.1 Associative change in word form; 7.2 An unsolved puzzle: polecat; 7.3 Unresolved phonological difficulty: purse; 8. Problems of semantic development; 8.1 Etymologies where no clear semantic connection can be established; 9. Towards a methodology; Sources; References; On the etymological relationships of wank, swank, and wonky; Sources; References; Base etymology in the historical thesauri of deverbatives in English; 1. Introduction.
- 2. The etymological partitioning of synonymous strings of verbs modelled on the OED textual prototypes3. The etymological partitioning of synonymous strings of deverbal coinages; 3.1 The (sub- )strings of participles; 3.2 The (sub- )strings of adjectives; 3.3 The (sub- )strings of second order deverbal coinages; 3.4 The (sub- )strings of deverbal nouns; 3.4.1 The suffix(es) uniform (sub- )strings of deverbal nouns; 4. Diachronically expanding sequences of the etymological (sub- )strings of verbs and their coinages; 5. Discussion; 5.1 The (sub- )strings of verbs and participles.
- 5.2 The (sub- )strings of verbs and adjectives5.3 Sequential deficiency of second order suffixal (sub- )strings; 5.4 The (sub- )strings of verbs and substantives; 6. Concluding remarks; Sources; References; Part II. Semantic fields; The global organization of the English lexicon and its evolution; 1. Theoretical preliminaries; 2. Small-world networks of nouns and verbs in WordNet; 3. Small-world networks of nouns and verbs in TOE; 4. The effects of word frequency; 5. Implications for brain networks; 6. Conclusion; Sources; References; Repayment and revenge; 1. Introduction.
- 2. The management of feud in Germanic law3. Legal universals; 4. Metaphor and metonymy; 5. Changing concepts of concrete and abstract; 6. Current developments; Sources; References; Appendix A; Extracts from TOE = A Thesaurus of Old English (Roberts & Kay 1995); Appendix B; DOE = Dictionary of Old English Project 2008, s.v. for-gyldan; Semantic change in the domain of the vocabulary of christian clergy; 1. Statement of purpose; 2. Discussion; 2.1 Conceptual link: Function of the office; 2.2 Conceptual link: Appearance; 2.3 Conceptual link: Position in hierarchy.