Language History and Linguistic Modelling : A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 101)(2 ... Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm])

This work presents a collection of some 130 contributions covering a wide range of topics of interest to historical, theoretical and applied linguistics alike. A major theme is the development of English which is examined on several levels in the light of recent linguistic theory in various papers. The geographical dimension is also treated extensively with papers on controversial aspects of a variety of studies, as are topical linguistic matters from a more general perspective. Preface 7 Curriculum vitae 9 List of publications 21 I Language history The history of English 41 Phonetics/Phonology 41 Phonaesthesia and other forms of word play 43 Middle English phonology without the syllable 53 Chaucerian phonemics: Evidence and interpretation 69 The hiatus in English historical phonology 99 Early Modern English vowel shortenings in monosyllables before dentals: A morphologically conditioned sound change? 105 The metrical prominence hierarchy in Old English verse 113 Morphology 125 The issue of double modals in the history of English revisited 127 The evolution of definite and indefinite articles in English 141 The morphology and dialect of Old English disyllabic nouns 153 The root of the matter: OE wyrt, wyrtwale, -a, wyrt(t)rum(a) and cognates 167 Nominal markedness changes in three Old and Middle English psalters — using the past to predict the past 183 The instrumental in Old English 193 Cumulative phenomena between prefixes and verbs in Old English 207 Morphological variation and change in Early Modern English: my/mine, thy/thine 219 The genitive and the category of case in the history of English 233 Weak-to-strong: A shift in English verbs? 255 Chaucer’s compound nouns: Patterns and productivity 269 Syntax 289 Subjecthood and the English impersonal 291 The grammaticalisation of infinitival to in English compared with German and Dutch 305 -THING in English: A case of grammaticalization? 321 Topics in Old and Middle English negative sentences 333 Topicalization in Old English and its effects. Some remarks 347 “Therfor speke playnly to the poynt”: Punctuation in Robert Keayne’s notes of church meetings from early Boston, New England 363 ME can and gan in context 383 Economy as a principle of syntactic change 397 Optional THAT with subordinators in Middle English 413 Relative clauses in Thomas Browne: On the way to standard syntax 425 Subject-oriented adverbs in a diachronic and contrastive perspective 435 The concept of the macrosyntagm in Early Modern English prison narratives 463 Object-verb word order in 16th century English: A study of its frequency and status 479 Lexis 495 Three etymological cruxes: Early Middle English cang ‘fool(ish)’ and (Early) Middle English cangun/conjoun ‘fool’, Middle English crois versus cross and Early Modern English clown 497 “With this ring I thee wed”: The verbs to wed and to marry in the history of English 507 The ‘Hard Words’ of Levins’ dictionary 523 From Jabberwocky back to Old English: Nonsense, Anglo-Saxon and Oxford 543 “To make merry”, its variants in Middle English, and the Helsinki Corpus 561 Translation as enrichment of language in sixteenth century England: The Courtyer (1561) by Sir Thomas Hoby 583 Re-examining the influence of Scandinavian on English: The case of ditch/dike 601 Forget-me-not - an English plant name of European lineage 611 Some East Anglian dialect words in the light of historical toponymy 625 Word-formation and the text in Early English: The axiological functions of Old English prefixes 633 Varieties, past and present 643 The battle at ‘Acleah’: A linguist’s reflection on annals 851 and 871 of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 645 What to call a name? Problems of “head-forms” for Old English personal names 655 Laʒamon’s idiolect 669 The influence of English upon Scottish writing 677 The dialects of Middle English 695 The Northern paradigm and its implications for scribal grammar in Þe Wohnunge of Ure Lauerd 705 Punctuation in the Middle English prose legend of St Faith in MS Southwell Minster 7 719 Derivation of it from Þat in eastern dialects of British English 731 Social embedding of linguistic changes in Tudor English 741 On the representation of English low vowels 759 The possessive adjective as involvement marker in colonial Virginia cookeries 779 British vernacular dialects in the formation of American English: The case of East Anglian do 789 On negation in dialectal English 799 General 809 English historical linguistics and philology in Japan 1950-1994: A survey with a list of publications arranged in chronological order 811 Knowledge of Old English in the Middle English period? 831 By Saint Tanne: Pious oaths or swearing in Middle English? An assessment of genres 855 Historical linguistics 867 Language groups and families 867 On the linguistic prehistory of Finno-Ugric 869 The development of the Germanic suffix -isk- 903 A case of divergent phonological evolution in West Germanic 913 Some West Indo-European words of uncertain origin 919 The history of linguistics 949 Baudouin de Courtenay on Lautgesetze 951 ‘Speculative’ historical linguistics 963 Language contact, language history and history of linguistics: John Palsgrave’s “Anglo-French” grammar (1530) 969 Language contact and change Contact 981 Cross-dialectal parallels and language contacts: Evidence from Celtic Englishes 983 A note on the use of data from non-standard varieties of English in linguistic argumentation 999 Arguments for creolisation in Irish English 1009 Romance Germanic contact and the peripheral vowel feature 1079 The cline of creoleness in negation patterns of Caribbean English creoles 1095 Change 1107 How languages living apart together may innovate their systems (as illustrated by to in Russian) 1109 Lexical diffusion and evolution theory 1123 Types and tokens in language change: Some evidence from Romance 1139 A sound change in progress? 1153 Grammatical ambiguity and language change 1165 II Linguistic modelling 573 General 573 The Focus Null Hypothesis and the head-direction parameter: Word compounding, numerals, and proper names 575 A theory of rection 593 Principles of cognitive grammar 617 On the functioning of rules of adjustment in generative grammar 633 Licensing of bare NP adjuncts 665 Adjunction to IP and NP: Evidence from Polish 679 Phonetics /Phonology 693 Irish “tense” sonorants and licensing of empty positions 695 Tone in second language acquisition 707 Govern or perish: Sequences of empty nuclei in Polish 725 The theory of universal vowel space and the Norwegian and Polish vowel systems 735 Alignment in Polish 759 A feature geometric analysis of palatalization in English 775 Morphology 795 Problematical plural forms in French 797 Recursivity in the inflectional morphology of English and German dialects 805 Inalienable possession in English, Irish and Polish morphology 813 Universals, typology, and modularity in Natural Morphology 833 Syntax 857 Some syntax and a little theology 859 Supplementive adjective clauses in English 867 One speaker's verbs 887 Some notes on grammatical function indicators across languages 891 Telicity as a perfectivising category: Notes on aspectual distinctions in English and Polish 907 It all cruises to a close: On agentive/middle verbs, analytic constructions and iconicity 927 What is double about double modals? 947 Effects of mood loss and aspect gain on English tenses 961 The spread of the going-to-future in written English: A corpus-based investigation into language change in progress 971 Any or no: Functional spread of non-assertive any 979 On the syntactic status of żelthat and its implications for the theory of phrase structure in Polish 989 Semantics 1017 Organization of the foreign language mental lexicon 1019 On the logic of implicational universals 1027 The exculpation of the Conduit Metaphor 1047 Entailment and modality 1055 On the distinction between semantic and encyclopaedic information 513 Crosslinguistic aspects of the mental lexicon 521 Shall we “re-consider”? A look at the pragmatics of the semantics of re- 533 Pragmatics 543 How do you know what I’m talking about? On the semantics and pragmatics of referring 545 Sitting: Between pragmatics and etymology 561 Contrastive linguistics and language acquisition 571 Tertium comparationis and contrastive linguistics 573 The historical-contrastive linguistics interface and noun morphology in contact situations 583 Grammaticalization and social convergence in second language acquisition 593 Clippings in modern French, English, German and Dutch 613 English-Polish Dictionary of Idioms: The computing background 623 Manner adverbials in English and Arabic 631 First-language maintenance among twentieth century Polish immigrants to France, the United States, and New Zealand 645 Foreign elements in German and French trade names 661 Radically simplified phonetic transcription for Polglish speakers 681 Same versus different crosslinguistically: The articles in English, Spanish and Hebrew 711 Cognitive grammar for contrastive linguistics: A case study of indirect speech in English and Polish 739 Metalanguage and interlanguage 767 The pragmatics of new words and their translation from English into Russian 781 Discourse analysis 789 Reduction and elaboration in Polish academic discourse 791 Linguistic jokes based on dialect divergence 805 An essay in critical discourse analysis: How can linguists contribute to alleviating conflicts? 815 Cross sex misunderstanding in different ethnic groups 827 Text linguistics, translation and stylistics 839 Hamlet’s and Hamlet’s audiences 841 From contrastive textology to parallel text corpora: Theory and applications 853 The “trash phenomenon” in Donald Barthelme’s Snow White and James Joyce’s Finnegans wake 869 Translation process analysis and implications for translation teaching 886 Methods and aims of linguistic stylistics 900 Gender and translation: Obstacles to the successful transfer of socio-political and cultural phenomena 905 The seduction of Mankind: Some remarks on the validity of linguistic analysis 915 The expatriated phantom: Washington Irving’s rhetoric of revolution 925 Varia 937 Language imperialism 939 Nature or nurture: Are conference interpreters born or made? 955 Index of subjects 965 Index of languages 979 Index of names 982 Cinque's Focus Null Hypothesis (Cinque 1993 (1990); see also Abraham 1992) was based on the explicit assumption that the place and the semantic import of clausal focus can be determined solely by syntactic considerations.