Kathryn Allan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kathryn Allan is involved.
Articles
2025 The semantics of word borrowing in late medieval English: A preliminary investigation Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 263–278 | Chapter
The paper presents a pilot study investigating the extent of sense sharing between loanwords in Middle English and their etyma in French and Latin, undertaken as part of a new three-year project. Fifty loanwords have been examined, with all senses in the borrowing and donor language(s) recorded… read more
2021 Metaphor, metonymy and polysemy: A historical perspective Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage, Soares da Silva, Augusto (ed.), pp. 287–306 | Chapter
Polysemy is a basic principle of the lexis of English, but the full range of senses of a lexeme and the ways in which these interact are not often considered in accounts of metaphor and metonymy. This paper presents a case study of the lexeme dull, which develops multiple meanings that do not… read more
2016 Chapter 4. Borrowing and copy: A philological approach to Early Modern English lexicology Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 71–86 | Article
Adamson (1999) demonstrates the importance of “copy” (copia) as a motivation
for lexical borrowing in early modern English. Our paper will take this observation
as its starting point. Using data from the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford
English Dictionary to gain an overview of the available… read more