Part I.Introduction

1

Investigating West Germanic languages 2

Jennifer Hendriks

B. Richard Page

Part II.Linguistic structure and change

13

Homorganic lengthening in late Old English revisited 14

B. Richard Page

Meter, syntax, and the use of punctuation in the Leipzig fragment
of the Hêliand 32

John D. Sundquist

The semantics and grammatical status of -frei 51

Sarah M.B. Fagan

Een mooi paar mouwen: The etymology of Dutch mooi ‘beautiful’ and mouw ‘sleeve’ 69

Michiel de Vaan

Part III.Migration, contact, and change

79

Sound change, analogy, and urban koineization in the regularization
of verbs in late fourteenth-century English 80

David Fertig

Vowel lowering, consonant cluster simplification, and koineization
in the history of Pennsylvania Dutch 107

Mark L. Louden

Lexicalizing vernacular architecture in the Cape Dutch Vernacular 131

Paul T. Roberge

Part IV.Vernacular sources and change

163

Weaving data strands together: Towards assembling Norwich’s historical urban vernacular 164

Anita Auer

Moragh S. Gordon

Investigating change from a perspective of continuity: Dutch two-verb clusters in sixteenth-century Antwerp 188

Jennifer Hendriks

Non-native communication in eighteenth-century maritime circles: Dutch letters written by economic migrants 225

Marijke van der Wal

Part V.Historical sociolinguistics

Past, present, and future 259

The dialect of Vriezenveen: Where does it come from? Where is it going? 260

Cor van Bree

Exploring past and present layers of multilingualism
in Flemish-emigrant writing 276

Yasmin Crombez

Wim Vandenbussche

Rik Vosters

An excursion into the lost history of historical sociolinguistics 301

Mark Richard Lauersdorf

Joseph Salmons

Index

Table of contents

Part I.Introduction

Part II.Linguistic structure and change

Part III.Migration, contact, and change

Part IV.Vernacular sources and change

Part V.Historical sociolinguistics