Plural marking in the Old and Middle English nd-stems feond and freond

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Particularizing and generalizing for written records
5. A philological tour of HEL 11
6. From stop-fricative clusters to contour segments in Old English 29
7. On the regrettable dichotomy between philology and linguistics: Historical lexicography and historical linguistics as test cases 61
8. II. Particulars of authorship
9. The history of the English language and the history of English literature 93
10. “Of harmes two, the lesse is for to chese”: An integrated OT-Maxent approach to syntactic inversions in Chaucer’s verse 107
11. The effect of representativeness and size in historical corpora: An empirical study of changes in lexical frequency 131
12. III. Particulars of communicative setting
13. Seeing is believing: Evidentiality and direct visual perception verbs in Early Modern English witness depositions 153
14. Sincerity and the moral reanalysis of politeness in Late Modern English: Semantic change and contingent polysemy 173
15. Something to write home about: Socialnetwork maintenance in the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants 203
16. IV. Particularizing from words
17. Words swimming in sound change 225
18. Plural marking in the Old and Middle English nd-stems feond and freond 239
19. From Shakespeare to Present-Day American English: The survival of ‘get + (XP) + gone’ constructions 263
20. Index 283