Don Chapman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Don Chapman is involved.
2019 “Splendidly prejudiced”: Words for disapproval in English usage guides Norms and Conventions in the History of English, Bös, Birte and Claudia Claridge (eds.), pp. 29–48 | Chapter
This paper examines terms used for disapproval in usage guides during the 19th and 20th centuries. Two corpora are used for this investigation: the Hyper Usage Guide of English database (HUGE) and a corpus of 29 usage guides representing nearly all decades of the 19th and 20th centuries. The… read more
2013 Enforcing or effacing useful distinctions? Imply vs. infer Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context, Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.), pp. 99–128 | Article
This paper examines the development of infer and imply from their first uses in the fifteenth century to the present, using the EEBO and COHA corpora. Both words have more complex histories than the prescriptive rule regulating them would suggest, and their development illustrates the movement… read more
2008 “You belly-guilty bag”: Insulting epithets in Old English Journal of Historical Pragmatics 9:1, pp. 1–19 | Article
This article examines the epithets used as insults in Old English, building on Jucker and Taavitsainen (2000). Such epithets were found by examining all uses of the second person pronouns þu and þin in the Dictionary of Old English corpus. Epithets that accompany these pronouns occur in four main… read more
1999 Notions of compounding in Priscian's Institutiones History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 23–30 | Chapter