Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Brook Memoir by Alan Shelston ix
5. List of Contributors xiii
6. Lexical Gaps, Cognition and Linguistic Change 1
7. Folk-Etymology 19
8. Mechanisms of Semantic Change in Nouns of Cognition 35
9. Historical Semantics and Historical Lexicography 53
10. Strange Linguists 69
11. Lexical Choices in an Early Galilean Translation 87
12. Grund to Hrof 103
13. Five Hundred Years of Love 127
14. The Vocabulary of Consent in Middle English 157
15. The Discourse Motivations for Neologising 179
16. The Vernacularization of the Negative Prefix Dis-in Early Modern English 209
17. Brook Symposium Edited by Christian Kay 229
18. Author and Subject Index 241