Gaby Waxenberger

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gaby Waxenberger is involved.

Title

English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, texts and genres

Edited by Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger

The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 324] 2012. xviii, 271 pp.

Articles

Waxenberger, Gaby 2025 The Loveden Hill Urn: Its second runic sequence and an afterthought Germanic Interrelations: Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen, Laker, Stephen, Carla Falluomini, Steffen Krogh, Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte (eds.), pp. 356–375 | Chapter

The Loveden Hill Urn (ca. AD 450–550) carries an inscription in Pre-Old English that continues to challenge interpretation. Several scholars view it as three short sequences separated by word dividers. A reliable reading of the whole inscription is problematic because some of the runes in the… read more

Waxenberger, Gaby 2019 Absolute chronology of early sound changes reflected in Pre-Old English runic inscriptions NOWELE 72:1, pp. 60–77 | Article

This article presents an absolute chronology of the early major sound changes reflected in the Pre-Old English (Pre-OE) runic inscriptions. These inscriptions were written in the Pre-fuþorc, which was still close to the Common Germanic fuþark (= Older fuþark) of 24 characters but was extended… read more