基本説明
The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, and dialectology, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on semantics, pragmatics and register variation.
Full Description
The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, and dialectology, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on semantics, pragmatics and register variation. A rich variety of state-of-the-art studies and plenary lectures by acknowledged world experts in the field bears witness to the quality of the scholarly interest in this field of research. In all the contributions, well-established methods combine with new theoretical approaches, in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. The accurate peer-reviewed selection ensures the methodological homogeneity of the papers.
Contents
1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. Part I. Pragmatic and stylistic choices; 4. Politeness in the history of English (by Jucker, Andreas H.); 5. The which is most and right harde to answere: Intensifying right and most in earlier English (by Mendez-Naya, Belen); 6. The diachronic development of the intensifier bloody: A case study in historical pragmatics (by Biscetti, Stefania); 7. Variation and change in the writings of 17th century scientists (by Moessner, Lilo); 8. Part II. Lexical and semantic change; 9. The convergence of two need verbs in Middle English (by Loureiro-Porto, Lucia); 10. Rivalry among the verbs of wanting (by Akimoto, Minoji); 11. A look at respect: Investigating metonymies in Earle Modern English (by Tissari, Heli); 12. Germanic vs French fixed expressions in Middle English prose: Towards a corpus-based historical English phraseology (by Markus, Manfred); 13. Latin loanwords of the early modern period: How often did French act as an intermediary? (by Durkin, Philip); 14. Disseisin: The lexeme and the legal fact in Early Middle English (by McConchie, R.W.); 15. Was Old Frech -able borrowable? A diachronic study of word-formation processes due to language contact (by Trips, Carola); 16. Women and other 'small things': -ette as a feminine marker (by Kornexl, Lucia); 17. Index of subjects
