Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries (Vol 1: Linguistic Theory and Historical Linguistics. Vol 2: Descriptive, Contrastive, and Applied Linguistics. In Honour of Jacek Fisiak on the Occasion of His Fiftieth Birthday) ||

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 building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. 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. Editors’ note 7 Curriculum Vitae 9 List of publications 11 Part I. Theoretical linguistics 35 The ultimate and the consummate units of speech 37 Glottotronics: an inevitable phase of linguistics (Linguistic science fiction?) 45 Semantic explanations in functional sentence perspective 61 A plea for phraseo-stylistics 75 Kruszewski’s contribution to general linguistic theory 87 Language universals, linguistic theory, and philosophy 111 Semantic features and prototype theory in English lexicology 119 Some remarks on transformations 129 Rhythm in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages: some general considerations 139 On the problem of meaning in sociolinguistic studies of syntactic variation 145 Grammar as speaker’s knowledge versus grammar as linguists’ characterization of norms 159 Concepts, fields, and ‘non-basic’ lexical items 169 Syntactic ambiguity: a systematic accident 179 Generated or degenerate? Two forms of linguistic competence 191 Part II. Historical linguistics 209 An etymology for the aquatic ‘acker/aiker’ in English, and other grains of truth? 211 Contrasting fact with fiction: the common denominator in internal reconstruction, with a bibliography 217 On Old English gefrœgnod in Beowulf 1333 a 227 Medieval English scribal practice: some questions and some assumptions 233 Remarques sur les dérivés chez Richard Rolle: Où en est la morphologie? 245 Cautions about loan words and sound correspondences 255 A cœ̄ġ to Old English syllable structure 259 F for Fisiak: a feuilleton 265 Interlanguage simplification in Middle English vowel phonology? 273 Romance loans in Middle English: a re-assessment 287 The phonology of Modern French loanwords in present-day English 301 Modern English cruive ‘wicker salmon-trap’ 311 Consecutives and serials in Indo-European 327 More about the textual functions of the Old English adverbial þa 335 The relative clauses in Beowulf 345 On language contact and syntactic change 351 Middle English – a Creole? 363 German Baum, English beam 379 English ought (to) 381 On syncope in Old English 393 Some properties of analogical innovation 401 An inquiry into the nature of mixed grammars: two cases of grammatical variation in dialectal British English 405 The drift toward agentivity and the development of the perfective use of have + pp. in English 415 Case and rhyme in LaƷamon’s Brut 421 The influence of a century’s language planning on upper-class speech in Oslo 431 Diachronic word-formation in a functional perspective 443 The progress of the expression of temporal relationships from Old English to Early Middle English 457 The origin of the Old English dialects 471 A Middle English dialect boundary 477 The development of the category of gender in the Slavic languages 493 Words without etyma: Germanic ‘tooth’ 507 Reflexes of PIE d < t’ 517 Germanic and other Indo-European languages 525 Cantar de Mio Cid Y. 2375 535 Some verbal remarks 547 A note on Dr. Johnson’s History of the English language 559 Complementation in Ælfric’s Colloquy 567 Metathesis 581 An analysis of the Old Saxon velar consonants in initial position 591 Undergytan as a ‘Winchester’ word 603 The Germanic possessive type dem Vater sein Haus 613 Middle English translations of Old English charters in the Liber Monasterii de Hyda: a case of historical error analysis 625 The effects of language standardization on deletion rules: some comparative Germanic evidence from t/d-deletion 639 Degemination in Old English and the formal apparatus of generative phonology 655 Old English Northumbrian verb inflection revisited 671 Syllable theory and Old English verse: a preliminary observation 685 Hebrew loan words in English 693 On delimiting the senses of near-synonyms in historical semantics. A case-study of adjectives of ‘moral sufficiency’ in the Old English Andreas 705 An emotionally conditioned split of some personal names 727 Ruckümläut 735 Dialectal speech areas in England: Orton’s lexical evidence 759 The ‘Exmoor Courtship’ and ‘Exmoor Scolding’: an evaluation of two eighteenth-century dialect texts 775 The Old English digraph 〈cg〉 again 787 Bantawa rV-