In:English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact
Edited by Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 359] 2022
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Published online: 2 February 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.359.toc
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Table of contents
Chapter 1.Introduction1
Chris Cummins
Chapter 2.Adapting the Dynamic Model to historical linguistics: Case studies on the Middle English and Anglo-Norman contact
situation5
Michael Percillier
Chapter 3.An account of the use of fronting and clefting in Cornish English35
Avelino Corral Esteban
Chapter 4.How does causal connection originate? Evidence from translation correspondences between the Old English
Boethius and the Consolatio57
Anastasia Eseleva
Chapter 5.Old Northumbrian in the Scottish Borders: Evidence from place-names75
Carole Hough
Chapter 6.From eadig to happy: The lexical replacement in the field of Medieval English adjectives of
fortune97
Rafał Molencki
Chapter 7.Distributional changes in synonym sets: The case of fragrant, scented, and
perfumed in 19th- and 20th-century American
English119
Daniela Pettersson-Traba
Chapter 8.The taking off and catching on of etymological spellings in Early Modern
English: Evidence from the EEBO Corpus143
Ryuichi Hotta
Yoko Iyeiri
Chapter 9.Speech acts in the history of English: Gaps and paths of evolution165
Thomas Kohnen
Index181
