Description
Book SynopsisThe volume, inspired by Professor Wełna’s life-long studies in historical linguistics, brings together scholars researching topics in various fields of the history of the English language. Nine chapters devoted to different linguistic disciplines gather articles covering sound and spelling changes, historical word-formation processes, selected semantic domains, and manuscript variants. In the broader perspective the book addresses the history of linguistic thought with authors incorporating different tools of analysis in historical research.
Table of ContentsContents: Małgorzata Kłos:
Happy birþe - on the appearance of the noun
birþe in Middle English – Rafał Molencki: Some woolly remarks about wool – Agnieszka Kocel: Palatalization and distribution of (non-)palatal forms as exemplified by Northern Middle English grammatical words – Joanna Przedlacka: A historical study of Voice Onset Time in Received Pronunciation – Piotr Ruszkiewicz: On (non-)deriving the agma in Present-Day English – Albertas Steponavičius: Notes on paradigmatic phonologization – Anna Budna: The present participle mark-
ing in mediaeval London: a corpus study – John G. Newman: The partitive genitive with higher numerals in Old and Middle English – Merja Stenroos: The gender of loanwords in Southwest Midland texts of the thirteenth century – Bernhard Diensberg: The grapheme combination «qu». Its origin and function in English – Joanna Kopaczyk: The meanders of spelling, or Another look at early Middle Scots «ai/ay» digraphs – Joanna Esquibel/Anna Wojtyś: Following Wełna’s quest for (dis)appearing dental stops: t-insertion in Middle and Early Modern English correspondence – Ewa Ciszek: Words denoting ‘kingdom’ in
Laȝamon’s Brut – Marcin Krygier: Vernacularisation of the lexicon in the Wycliffe Bible: The Book of Ruth in MSS. CCC 4 and BL Royal I. C. VIII – Hans Sauer: Old English plant names with suffixes, especially the suffix
-el – Kinga Sądej-Sobolewska:
Tide and
time in Middle English dialects – Sylwester Łodej: Poland in the illustrative quotations of the
Oxford English Dictionary – Justyna Karczmarczyk: Three terms denoting dragons in Middle English poetry and prose.
Dragon,
drake and
worm – Grzegorz Andrzej Kleparski/Małgorzata Górecka-Smolińska: The meanderings of MAMMAL and BIRD symbolism in the context of semantic change – Barbara Kowalik: Who painted the mouse and who the vixen? Female animals in fables by Robert Henryson and Biernat of Lublin – Xavier Dekeyser: From Old English BUTAN to present-day BUT. A textbook case of grammaticalization – Magdalena Tomaszewska: On the auxiliary status of
dare in Middle English: a corpus based study – Mariusz Bęcławski: Semantic change in linguistics: A synopsis of the main approaches throughout the 19th and 20th centuries – Marta Sylwanowicz:
Clene inwit or fule saule? A study of evaluative developments in the domain of CLEANLINESS – Michael Bilynsky: The present-day and historical synonymy of English verbs: sequential similarity by the
OED textual prototypes – Natalia Budohoska: Linguistic situation in Kenya according to Labov’s social factors – Mateusz Sarnecki: Prepositional complementation in five varieties of English: A corpus-based study.
