The relevance of community language studies to HEL: The view from Roswell

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents XIII
3. Part one
4. Developments in Early English and other Germanic languages 1
5. Palatalized and velarized consonants in English against their Germanic background, with special reference to i-umlaut 5
6. On syllable cut in the Orrmulum 37
7. Evolution of the a-verse in English alliterative meter 63
8. Part two
9. Early Modern English lexicography 89
10. On the stress-shifting of polysyllabic French loans in English 93
11. The two tongues of Early Modern English 105
12. Part three
13. The history of the English language and its scholarship: reconsiderations and resolutions about the way forward 143
14. Off the shelf or under the counter? On the social dynamics of sound changes 149
15. The relevance of community language studies to HEL: The view from Roswell 173
16. Diachronic aspects of complementation: Constructions, entrenchment, and the matching problem 187
17. Patterns of seeking and breaking silence in earlier English 215
18. Henry Machyn's English: Getting it right 231
19. The dialectal origins of the language of Henry Machyn 251
20. Archaisms and neologisms in the language of Beowulf 267
21. Backmatter 289