In:English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006
Edited by Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 296] 2008
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 9 July 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.296.toc
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Table of contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part I. Pragmatic and stylistic choices1
Politeness in the history of English
The which is most and right harde to answere: Intensifying right and most in earlier English
The diachronic development of the intensifier bloody: A case study in historical pragmatics
Variation and change in the writings of 17th century scientists
Part II. Lexical and semantic change95
The convergence of two need verbs in Middle English
Rivalry among the verbs of wanting
A look at respect: Investigating metonymies in Earle Modern English
Germanic vs French fixed expressions in Middle English prose: Towards a corpus-based historical English phraseology
Latin loanwords of the early modern period: How often did French act as an intermediary?
Disseisin: The lexeme and the legal fact in Early Middle English
Was Old Frech -able borrowable? A diachronic study of word-formation processes due to language contact
Women and other 'small things': -ette as a feminine marker
Index of subjects
