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Explorations in the English language : Middle Ages and beyond : Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Welna on the occasion of his 70th birthday / edited by Joanna Esquibel and Anna Wojtys.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in English medieval language and literature ; 1436-7521 v. 35.
- Studies in English medieval language and literature, 1436-7521 ; v. 35
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--History.
- English language.
- History.
- English language--Grammar, Historical.
- English language--Semantics, Historical.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 402 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2012.
- Contents:
- Happy birpe : on the appearance of the noun birpe in Middle English / Małgorzata Kłos
- Some woolly remarks about wool / Rafal Molencki
- Palatalization and distribution of (non-)palatal forms as exemplified by northern Middle English grammatical words / Agnieszka Kocel
- A historical study of voice onset time in received pronunciation / Joanna Przedlacka
- On (non-)deriving the agma in present-day English / Piotr Ruszkiewicz
- Notes on paradigmatic phonologization / Albertas Steponavičius
- The present participle mark-ing in mediaeval London : a corpus study / Anna Budna
- The partitive genitive with higher numerals in Old and Middle English / John G. Newman
- The gender of loanwords in Southwest Midland texts of the thirteenth century / Merja Stenroos
- The grapheme combination "qu" its origin and function in English / Bernhard Diensberg
- The meanders of spelling, or another look at early Middle Scots "ai/ay" digraphs / Joanna Kopaczyk
- Following Wełna's quest for (dis)appearing dental stops : t-insertion in Middle and Early Modern English correspondence / Joanna Esquibel and Anna Wojtyś
- Words denoting 'kingdom' in Layamon's Brut / Ewa Ciszek
- Vernacularisation of the lexicon in the Wycliffe Bible : the Book of Ruth in MSS. CCC 4 and BL Royal I. C. VIII / Marcin Krygier
- Old English plant names with suffixes, especially the suffix -el / Hans Sauer
- Tide and time in Middle English dialects / Kinga Sądej-Sobolewska
- Poland in the illustrative quotations of the Oxford English Dictionary / Sylwester Łodej
- Three terms denoting dragons in Middle English poetry and prose : dragon, drake and worm / Justyna Karczmarczyk
- The meanderings of MAMMAL and BIRD symbolism in the context of semantic change / Grzegorz Andrzej Kleparski and Małgorzata Górecka-Smolińska
- Who painted the mouse and who the vixen? : female animals in fables by Robert Henryson and Biernat of Lublin / Barbara Kowalik
- From Old English BUTAN to present-day BUT : a textbook case of grammaticalization / Xavier Dekeyser
- On the auxiliary status of dare in Middle English : a corpus based study / Magdalena Tomaszewska
- Semantic change in linguistics : a synopsis of the main approaches throughout the 19th and 20th centuries / Mariusz Bęcławski
- Clene inwit or fule saule? : a study of evaluative developments in the domain of cleanliness / Marta Sylwanowicz
- The present-day and historical synonymy of English verbs : sequential similarity by the OED textual prototypes / Michael Bilynsky
- Linguistic situation in Kenya according to Labov's social factors / Natalia Budohoska
- Prepositional complementation in five varieties of English : a corpus-based study / Mateusz Sarnecki.
- Notes:
- Festschrift.
- Includes bibliography of Jerzy Welna.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783631633847
- 363163384X
- OCLC:
- 818727161
- Publisher Number:
- 99951280794
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