Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of abbreviations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Corpus linguistics today and tomorrow
6. Can’t see the wood for the trees? 13
7. Spelling variation in Middle English manuscripts 31
8. Aspects of language change
9. The development of compound numerals in English Biblical translations 49
10. The complements of causative make in Late Middle English 59
11. The pragmaticalization and intensification of verily , truly and really 75
12. Concept-driven semasiology and onomasiology of CLERGY 93
13. ANGER and TĒNE in Middle English 109
14. Middle and Modern English case studies
15. The subjunctive vs. modal auxiliaries 127
16. Some notes on the distribution of the quantifier all in Middle English 141
17. Interjections in Middle English 157
18. Why and what in Early Modern English drama 177
19. Colloquialization and not -contraction in nineteenth-century English 191
20. Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter
21. The complexity and diversity of the words in Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary 209
22. Etymology in the English Dialect Dictionary 225
23. Towards an understanding of Joseph Wright’s sources 241
24. The importance of being Janus 257
25. ... ging uns der ganze alte Dialektbegriff in eine Illusion auf 269
26. Index 285