Prototype Categories and Variation Studies

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Editors’ Foreword v
3. Table of contents vii
4. I. General Issues
5. Linguistics, Philology, Chickens and Eggs 3
6. Can Catastrophe Theory Provide Adequate Explanations for Linguistic Change? An application to syntactic change in English 17
7. Postdisciplinary Philology 29
8. Premisses and Periods in a History of English 37
9. Linguistic Reality of Middle English 47
10. II. Phonology and Writing
11. Old English Stress 65
12. The Great Vowel Shift Revisited 81
13. Towards a Standard Written English? Continuity and change in the orthographic usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393–1464) 91
14. On the Writing of the History of Standard English 105
15. III. Morphology and Syntax
16. Grammatical Choices in Old and Early Middle English 119
17. Subject Extraction in English 131
18. The Modals Again in the Light of Historical and Cross-Linguistic Evidence 145
19. OE and ME Multiple Negation 157
20. ø-relatives with Antecedent @ and Free Relatives in OE and ME 171
21. Be vs. Have with Intransitives in Early Modern English 179
22. Infinitive Marking in Early Modern English 191
23. IV Lexicology and Semantics
24. Dog — Man’s Best Friend 207
25. Emotions in the English Lexicon 219
26. The Scandinavian Element in the Vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle 235
27. Productive or Non-productive? The Romance element in Middle English derivation 247
28. Remarks on the Origin and Evolution of Abbreviations and Acronyms 261
29. “Ase roser when hit redes” 273
30. V. Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts
31. Prototype Categories and Variation Studies 287
32. What does the Jungle of Middle English Manuscripts Tell Us? On ME words for ‘every’ and ‘each’ with special reference to their many variants 305
33. Ladies and gentlemen 317
34. On the revolution of scientific writings from 1375 to 1675 329
35. Multiple authorship of the OE Orosius 343
36. “After a copye unto Me Delyverd” 353
37. VI. Indexes
38. Index nominum 367
39. Index rerum 373