English Historical Linguistics and Philology in JapanJacek Fisiak, Akio Oizumi Walter de Gruyter, 1998 - 464 pages TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert. |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
On identifying Old English adverbs | 21 |
1 | 30 |
On the construction I | 43 |
Reflexive verbs in Chaucer | 55 |
A study of contracted | 79 |
Yoko Iyeiri | 86 |
Pro Nominal reference in Old English and the origin of | 111 |
On double auxiliary constructions in Medieval English | 229 |
A new rhyme concordance to Chaucers poetical works | 287 |
Tadao Kubouchi | 309 |
On the inseparable nature of verbauxiliary combinations | 313 |
Archaism in the vocabulary of Ælfric | 341 |
The syllable structure and phonological processes in the history | 361 |
The helle sequence in Old English poetry | 387 |
Some etymological and semasiological notes on girl | 401 |
Some notes on the grammatical category of gender in Vices and Virtues | 137 |
Verbal gerund and its historical development in English | 153 |
What is the point? Manuscript punctuation as evidence | 171 |
Middle English Breaking | 209 |
On the functional motivation of phonological changes in English | 417 |
The case of Chaucer | 439 |
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