Meaning in the history of English
Subtitle: words and texts in context
By: edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho, University of Zurich
Series: Studies in language companion series -- v. 148; Studies in language companion series -- v. 148.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9789027206152; 9789027270894
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: English language; History; Historical linguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Uncovering layers of meaning in the history of the English language / Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho; title: Layers of reading in the Old English Bede : the case of Oxford Corpus Christi College 279B / Christine Wallis; title: Unlikely-looking Old English verb forms / Eric Stanley; title: On the importance of noting uncertainty in etymological research : some implications of a re-examination of the etymology of road / Philip Durkin; title: "A Wiltshire word, according to Kennett" : the contribution of MS Lansd. 1033 to Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1847) / Javier Ruano-García; title: Enforcing or effacing useful distinctions? : imply vs. infer / Don Chapman; title: The role of context in the meaning specification of cant and slang words in eighteenth-century English / Roxanne But; title: Let's talk about uton / Linda van Bergen; title: Exploring part-of-speech profiles and authorship attribution in Early Modern medical texts / Jukka Tyrkkö; title: The positioning of adverbial clauses in the Paston letters / Yoko Iyeiri; title: Complexity and genre conventions : text structure and coordination in Early Modern English proclamations / Anu Lehto; title: Formulaic discourse across Early Modern English medical genres : investigating shared lexical bundles / Joanna Kopaczyk; title: "Treasure of pore men", "countrymans friend" or "gentlewomans companion"? On the use of interpersonal strategies in the titles of Early Modern English medical texts / Marta Sylwanowicz; title: "I saw ye Child burning in ye fire" : evidentiality in Early Modern English witness depositions / Peter Grund.