Martina Häcker
List of John Benjamins publications in which Martina Häcker is involved.
Articles
2019 Kinship or friendship? The word cousin as a term of address for non-relatives in Middle English Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20:1, pp. 96–131 | Article
The use of the word cousin as a term of address for non-relatives in late-medieval and Renaissance English is well documented in letters between monarchs, but weak for other social groups in the standard dictionaries, with one example each in the Oxford English Dictionary and the Middle English… read more
2006 An Englishman’s Vindication of Scots: James Adams (1737–1802) – Jesuit, teacher and linguist New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English, pp. 85–107 | Article
This article investigates the linguistic work of the English Jesuit James Adams (1737–1802). It places Adams’ work in the socio-cultural context of 18th-century linguistic writing, in particular with respect to two ongoing debates: (1) on a monogenetic vs. a polygenetic origin of language and (2)… read more
2004 Intrusive [h] in present-day English accents and <h>-insertion in medieval manuscripts: Hypercorrection or functionally-motivated language use? 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. 109–123 | Article