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Investigating West Germanic Languages
Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell
This volume celebrates Robert B. Howell's wide-ranging contribution as a scholar, mentor, collaborator, and colleague in the field of Germanic linguistics. In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, and Pennsylvania Dutch, each of the thirteen contributions in this volume explores one or more of the topics found in Howell’s work: (1) Linguistic structure and change (Page, Sundquist, Fagan, De Vaan); (2) Migration, contact, and change (Fertig, Louden, Roberge); (3) Vernacular sources and change (Auer & Gordon, Hendriks, Van der Wal); (4) Historical sociolinguistics: past, present, and future (Van Bree, Crombez, Vandenbussche & Vosters, Lauersdorf & Salmons).
[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] 2024. vi, 327 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 May 2024
Published online on 1 May 2024
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction
- Investigating West Germanic LanguagesJennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page | pp. 2–11
- Part II. Linguistic structure and change
- Homorganic lengthening in late Old English revisitedB. Richard Page | pp. 14–31
- Meter, syntax, and the use of punctuation in the Leipzig fragment of the HêliandJohn D. Sundquist | pp. 32–50
- The semantics and grammatical status of -freiSarah M. B. Fagan | pp. 51–68
- Een mooi paar mouwen: The etymology of Dutch mooi ‘beautiful’ and mouw ‘sleeve’Michiel de Vaan | pp. 69–78
- Part III. Migration, contact, and change
- Sound change, analogy, and urban koineization in the regularization of verbs in late fourteenth-century EnglishDavid Fertig | pp. 80–106
- Vowel lowering, consonant cluster simplification, and koineization in the history of Pennsylvania DutchMark L. Louden | pp. 107–130
- Lexicalizing vernacular architecture in the Cape Dutch VernacularPaul T. Roberge | pp. 131–162
- Part IV. Vernacular sources and change
- Weaving data strands together: Towards assembling Norwich’s historical urban vernacularAnita Auer and Moragh S. Gordon | pp. 164–187
- Investigating change from a perspective of continuity: Dutch two-verb clusters in sixteenth-century AntwerpJennifer Hendriks | pp. 188–224
- Non-native communication in eighteenth-century maritime circles: Dutch letters written by economic migrantsMarijke van der Wal | pp. 225–257
- Part V. Historical sociolinguistics: Past, present, and future
- The dialect of Vriezenveen: Where does it come from? Where is it going?Cor van Bree | pp. 260–275
- Exploring past and present layers of multilingualism in Flemish-emigrant writingYasmin Crombez, Wim Vandenbussche and Rik Vosters | pp. 276–300
- An excursion into the lost history of historical sociolinguisticsMark Richard Lauersdorf and Joseph Salmons | pp. 301–324
- Index | pp. 325–327