Lexis and transmission : selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002 / edited by Christian J. Kay, Carole Hough, Irene Wotherspoon.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hough, Carole.

Kay, Christian.

Wotherspoon, Irené.

Conference Name:

International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (12th : 2002 : University of Glasgow)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 252

New perspectives on English historical linguistics ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar, Historical--Congresses.

English language.

English language--History--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the second of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The first is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (1): Syntax and Morphology. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field. In this volume, the primary concern is with the historical study of the English lexicon and its sound and writing systems. Using research tools such as machine-readable text and lexical corpora, and intellectual tools such as corpus and cognitive linguistics, many of the papers move from a close study of a set of data to conclusions of theoretical significance, often concerning questions of classification and organisation. More broadly, whether concerned with lexicology or transmission, the papers have a social orientation, since neither lexicology nor phonology can be seen as divorced from its social setting.

Contents:

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS II

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Reference

Chancery Standard

References

Cant and slang dictionaries

DOST

Image schemata and light

Loanword etymologies in the third edition of the OED

"Non olet"

Intrusive [h] in present-day English accents and (h)-insertion in medieval manuscripts

Mergers, near-mergers and phonological interpretation

New light on the verb "understand"

Homophones and the stabilization of orthography in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century English

Kailyard, conservatism and Scots in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland

Sources

A sociolinguistic approach to the Norse-derived words in the glosses to the Lindisfarne and Rushworth Gospels

Haplology in English adverb-formation

Uses of Scottish place-names as evidence in historical dictionaries

On the stressing of French loanwords in English

Like like love

Abbreviations

Spirantisation and despirantisation

Subject index

The Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-16040-0

9786612160400

90-272-9542-5

OCLC:

319031340