Investigating West Germanic Languages Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell Edited by Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hendriks, Jennifer, editor.

Page, B. Richard, editor.

Series:

Studies in Germanic Linguistics 2452-2120 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English linguistics.

Germanic linguistics.

Theoretical linguistics.

Local Subjects:

English linguistics.

Germanic linguistics.

Theoretical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 327 pages )

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024

Summary:

This volume celebrates Robert B. Howell's wide-ranging contribution as a scholar, mentor, collaborator, and colleague in the field of Germanic linguistics. In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, and Pennsylvania Dutch, each of the thirteen contributions in this volume explores one or more of the topics found in Howell's work: (1) Linguistic structure and change (Page, Sundquist, Fagan, De Vaan); (2) Migration, contact, and change (Fertig, Louden, Roberge); (3) Vernacular sources and change (Auer & Gordon, Hendriks, Van der Wal); (4) Historical sociolinguistics: past, present, and future (Van Bree, Crombez, Vandenbussche & Vosters, Lauersdorf & Salmons). Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Investigating West Germanic Languages / Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page

Homorganic lengthening in late Old English revisited / B. Richard Page

Meter, syntax, and the use of punctuation in the Leipzig fragment of the Hêliand / John D. Sundquist

The semantics and grammatical status of - frei / Sarah M.B. Fagan

Een mooi paar mouwen / Michiel de Vaan

Sound change, analogy, and urban koineization in the regularization of verbs in late fourteenth-century English / David Fertig

Vowel lowering, consonant cluster simplification, and koineization in the history of Pennsylvania Dutch / Mark L. Louden

Lexicalizing vernacular architecture in the Cape Dutch Vernacular / Paul T. Roberge

Weaving data strands together / Anita Auer and Moragh S. Gordon

Investigating change from a perspective of continuity / Jennifer Hendriks

Non-native communication in eighteenth-century maritime circles / Marijke J. van der Wal

The dialect of Vriezenveen / Cor van Bree

Exploring past and present layers of multilingualism in Flemish-emigrant writing / Yasmin Crombez, Wim Vandenbussche and Rik Vosters

An excursion into the lost history of historical sociolinguistics / Mark Richard Lauersdorf and Joseph C. Salmons

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Hardbound version:

ISBN:

9789027247100

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.