Jerzy Welna
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jerzy Welna is involved.
Articles
2014 <U> or <o>: A dilemma of the Middle English scribal practice Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English, Pfenninger, Simone E., Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier (eds.), pp. 305–324 | Article
The paper discusses the spread of the spelling variation 〈 u: o〉 in Middle English in all localized texts from the Innsbruck Corpus (Markus 2008). The present author’s aim is to determine the distribution of the replacement of 〈u〉 by 〈o〉 in the Corpus texts in order to reveal a temporal and… read more
2012 The temporal and regional contexts of the numeral ‘two’ in Middle English English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010, Hegedűs, Irén and Alexandra Fodor (eds.), pp. 115–128 | Article
The numeral denoting ‘two’ – like other ‘small’ cardinal numbers (‘one’, ‘three’ and ‘four’) – has had a complicated history. In Old English it exhibited different forms depending on gender; cf. tweȝen masc. (modelled on OE beȝen ‘both’, cf. Brunner 1965: 252), twā fem. (also neut.) and tū neut.,… read more
2004 Spirantisation and despirantisation New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002, Kay, Christian, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon (eds.), pp. 251–265 | Article