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30This volume and its companion one (English Historical Syntax and
Morphology, CILT 223) offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh
International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the
University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130
papers were given during the conference), the present thirteen papers were
carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the field of
English historical linguistics. The areas represented in the volume are
lexis and semantics, text-types, historical sociolinguistics and
dialectology, and phonology. Many of the articles tackle questions of
change and linguistic periodization through the use of methodological tools
like corpora, linguistic atlases, thesauri and historical dictionaries. The
theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, multi-dimensional
analysis, systemic-functional grammar, Communication Accommodation Theory,
historical discourse analysis and Optimality Theory.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Teresa Fanego 1
Linguistic accommodation: The correspondence between Samuel Johnson and
Hester Lynch Thrale
Randy C. Bax 9
Style evolution in the English sermon
Claudia Claridge and Andrew Wilson 25
Lexical bundles in Early Modern English dialogues: A window into the
speech-related language of the past
Jonathan Culpeper and Merja Kytö 45
Changing documentation in the Third Edition of the Oxford English
Dictionary: Sixteenth-century vocabulary as a test case
Philip Durkin 65
A linguistic history of advertising, 1700 ?" 1890
Manfred Görlach 83
Ebb and flow: A cautionary tale of language change
Raymond Hickey 105
Wreak, wrack, rack, and (w)ruin: The history of some confused spellings
Christian J. Kay and Irené Wotherspoon 129
When did English begin?
Angelika Lutz 145
What ’s afoot with word-final C? Metrical coherence and the history of English
Chris B. McCully 173
Dan Michel: Fossil or innovator?
John Scahill 189
Historical discourse analysis: Scientific language and changing thought-styles
Irma Taavitsainen 201
Key issues in English etymology
Theo Vennemann 227
The dialectology of ‘English’ north of the Humber, c.1380 ?" 1500
Keith Williamson
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