R.W. McConchie
List of John Benjamins publications in which R.W. McConchie is involved.
Articles
2008 Disseisin: The lexeme and the legal fact in Early Middle English English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dury, Richard, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena (eds.), pp. 203–216 | Article
Revealing the processes of vernacularising the prefix dis- in English requires attention to each lexeme which uses it. This article explores the term disseisin and its associated lexemes from its earliest uses to about 1200 AD. The historical dictionaries suggest that disseisin is the earliest… read more
2000 The Vernacularization of the Negative Prefix Dis-in Early Modern English Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998, Coleman, Julie and Christian Kay (eds.), pp. 209–228 | Article