Investigating West Germanic Languages

Chapters in this book

1. 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
2. Table of contents v
3. Part I. Introduction
4. Investigating West Germanic Languages 2
5. Part II. Linguistic structure and change
6. Homorganic lengthening in late Old English revisited 14
7. Meter, syntax, and the use of punctuation in the Leipzig fragment of the Hêliand 32
8. The semantics and grammatical status of - frei 51
9. Een mooi paar mouwen 69
10. Part III. Migration, contact, and change
11. Sound change, analogy, and urban koineization in the regularization of verbs in late fourteenth-century English 80
12. Vowel lowering, consonant cluster simplification, and koineization in the history of Pennsylvania Dutch 107
13. Lexicalizing vernacular architecture in the Cape Dutch Vernacular 131
14. Part IV. Vernacular sources and change
15. Weaving data strands together 164
16. Investigating change from a perspective of continuity 188
17. Non-native communication in eighteenth-century maritime circles 225
18. Part V. Historical sociolinguistics
19. The dialect of Vriezenveen 260
20. Exploring past and present layers of multilingualism in Flemish-emigrant writing 276
21. An excursion into the lost history of historical sociolinguistics 301
22. Index 325