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Brings together seventeen peer-reviewed, revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), held in August 2010 at the University of Pecs, Hungary.

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Author:   Irén Hegedűs (University of Pécs) ,  Alexandra Fodor (Eötvös Loránd University / University of Helsinki)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   325
Weight:   0.850kg
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9789027248435

ISBN 10:   9027248435
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   13 November 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1. Foreword & Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction: Coins, clothes and corpora: Ways and means to refine investigations into the history of English (by Hegedus, Iren); 3. Norse influence on English in the light of general contact linguistics (by Lutz, Angelika); 4. The Germanic roots of the Old English sound system (by Nielsen, Hans Frede); 5. Monetary policy and Old English dialects (by Colman, Fran); 6. The order and schedule of nominal plural formation transfer in three Southern dialects of Early Middle English (by Hotta, Ryuichi); 7. The temporal and regional contexts of the numeral 'two' in Middle English (by Welna, Jerzy); 8. Grammaticalisation, contact and corpora: On the development of adverbial connectives in English (by Rissanen, Matti); 9. Discourse organization and the rise of final then in the history of English (by Haselow, Alexander); 10. The origins of how come and what...for (by Claridge, Claudia); 11. Providing/provided that : Grammaticalization or loan translation? (by Molencki, Rafal); 12. Prefer: The odd verb out (by Egan, Thomas); 13. The 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (1810-2009) (by Davies, Mark); 14. Gender change from Old to Middle English (by Dolberg, Florian); 15. Please tilt me-ward by return of post : On the vicissitude of a marginal pronominal construction in the history of English (by Shibasaki, Reijirou); 16. Multilingualism in the vocabulary of dress and textiles in late medieval Britain: Some issues for historical lexicology (by Chambers, Mark); 17. No man entreth in or out : How are typologically unsuitable loanverbs integrated into English? (by Huber, Judith); 18. Beyond questions and answers: Strategic use of multiple identities in the historical courtroom (by Chaemsaithong, Krisda); 19. The demise of gog and cock and their phraseologies in dramatic discourse: A study into historical pragmatics of tabooistic distortions (by Lodej, Sylwester); 20. Index

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