In:New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002
Edited by Christian Kay, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 252] 2004
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 24 June 2004
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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsvii
Introduction
Chancery Standard
Cant and slang dictionaries: A statistical approach
DOST: A significant instance of historical lexicography
Image schemata and light: A study in diachronic lexical domains in English
Loanword etymologies in the third edition of the OED: Some questions of classification
“Non olet”: Euphemisms we live by
Intrusive [h] in present-day English accents and <h>-insertion in medieval manuscripts: Hypercorrection or functionally-motivated language use?
Mergers, near-mergers and phonological interpretation
New light on the verb “understand”
Homophones and the stabilization of orthography in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century English
Kailyard, conservatism and Scots in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland
A sociolinguistic approach to the Norse-derived words in the glosses to the Lindisfarne and Rushworth Gospels
Haplology in English adverb-formation
Uses of Scottish place-names as evidence in historical dictionaries
On the stressing of French loanwords in English
Like like love: Comparing two modern English words diachronically
Spirantisation and despirantisation
Name index267
Subject index269
