Syllable theory and Old English verse: A preliminary observation

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. Editors' note VII
3. Curriculum Vitae IX
4. List of publications XI
5. Volume 1 Linguistic theory and historical linguistics
6. Part I Theoretical linguistics
7. The ultimate and the consummate units of speech 3
8. Glottotronics: an inevitable phase of linguistics (Linguistic science fiction?) 11
9. Semantic explanations in functional sentence perspective 27
10. A plea for phraseo-stylistics 41
11. Kruszewski's contribution to general linguistic theory 53
12. Language universals, linguistic theory, and philosophy 77
13. Semantic features and prototype theory in English lexicology 85
14. Some remarks on transformations 95
15. Rhythm in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages: some general considerations 105
16. On the problem of meaning in sociolinguistic studies of syntactic variation 111
17. Grammar as speaker's knowledge versus grammar as linguists' characterization of norms 125
18. Concepts, fields, and 'non-basic' lexical items 135
19. Syntactic ambiguity: a systematic accident 145
20. Generated or degenerate? Two forms of linguistic competence 157
21. Part II Historical linguistics
22. An etymology for the aquatic 'Acker/Aiker' in English, and other grains of truth? 177
23. Contrasting fact with fiction: the common denominator in internal reconstruction, with a bibliography 183
24. On Old English gefrægnod in Beowulf 1333 a 193
25. Medieval English scribal practice: some questions and some assumptions 199
26. Remarques sur les dérivés chez Richard Rolle: Où en est la morphologie? 211
27. Cautions about loan words and sound correspondences 221
28. A cǣġ to Old English syllable structure 225
29. F for Fisiak: a feuilleton 231
30. Interlanguage simplification in Middle English vowel phonology? 239
31. Romance loans in Middle English: a re-assessment 253
32. The phonology of Modern French loanwords in Present-day English 267
33. Modern English cruive 'wicker salmon-trap' 277
34. Consecutives and serials in Indo-European 293
35. More about the textual functions of the Old English adverbial þa 301
36. The relative clauses in Beowulf 311
37. On language contact and syntactic change 317
38. Middle English - a Creole? 329
39. German Baum, English beam 345
40. English ought (to) 347
41. On syncope in Old English 359
42. Some properties of analogical innovation 367
43. An inquiry into the nature of mixed grammars: two cases of grammatical variation in dialectal British English 371
44. The drift toward agentivity and the development of the perfective use of have + pp. in English 381
45. Case and rhyme in LaƷamon's Brut 387
46. The influence of a century's language planning on upper-class speech in Oslo 397
47. Diachronic word-formation in a functional perspective 409
48. The progress of the expression of temporal relationships from Old English to Early Middle English 423
49. The origin of the Old English dialects 437
50. A Middle English dialect boundary 443
51. The development of the category of gender in the Slavic languages 459
52. Words without etyma: Germanic 'tooth' 473
53. Reflexes of PIE d ‹ t' 483
54. Germanic and other Indo-European languages 491
55. Cantar de Mio Cid V. 2375 501
56. Some verbal remarks 513
57. A note on Dr. Johnson's History of the English language 525
58. Complementation in Ӕlfric's Colloquy 533
59. Metathesis 547
60. An analysis of the Old Saxon velar consonants in initial position 557
61. Undergytan as a 'Winchester' word 569
62. The Germanic possessive type dem Vater sein Haus 579
63. Middle English translations of Old English charters in the Liber Monasterii de Hyda: a case of historical error analysis 591
64. The effects of language standardization on deletion rules: some comparative Germanic evidence from t/d-deletion 605
65. Degemination in Old English and the formal apparatus of generative phonology 621
66. Old English Northumbrian verb inflection revisited 637
67. Syllable theory and Old English verse: A preliminary observation 651
68. Hebrew loan words in English 659
69. On delimiting the senses of near-synonyms in historical semantics. A case-study of adjectives of 'moral sufficiency' in the Old English Andreas 671
70. An emotionally conditioned split of some personal names 693
71. Ruckümläut 701
72. Dialectal speech areas in England: Orton's lexical evidence 725
73. The 'Exmoor Courtship' and 'Exmoor Scolding': an evaluation of two eighteenth-century dialect texts 741
74. The Old English digraph ‹cg› again 753
75. Bantawa rV- ‹ ? An exercise in internal and comparative reconstruction 763
76. Proto-Indo-European verbal roots in Sanskrit and Polish 773
77. Volume 2 Descriptive, contrastive and applied linguistics
78. Part III Descriptive linguistics
79. The grammar of German haben 781
80. The English prosody /h/ 799
81. On stress in Polish 811
82. Some remarks on cleft sentences in present-day English 815
83. Euro-English 827
84. Metaphor in the English lexicon: the verb 837
85. A note on reverse wh-clefts in English 851
86. A case-study in the dynamics of written communication 859
87. Towards a definition of semantic constraints on negative prefixation in English and German 877
88. Autosegments, linked matrices, and the Irish lenition 891
89. The minimal distance principle revisited 909
90. Remarks on Lakoff's classification of verbs 935
91. Metathese im arabischen Dialekt von Tunis 947
92. Question-orientation versus answer-orientation in English interrogative clauses 963
93. The tag syntagm of spoken English 983
94. The function of prefixation in the assignment of aspect to the Polish verb 993
95. A prototype approach to denominal adjectives 1003
96. The case of American Polish 1015
97. On some recent claims concerning derivational morphology 1025
98. Sentence stress and category membership 1051
99. Because 1063
100. The possibilities of may and can 1067
101. Zur formalen Variabilität der deutschen Morpheme 1077
102. Part IV Contrastive and applied linguistics
103. Prepositions in Welsh and Finnish case-endings: A contrastive study 1101
104. Elements of structuralism in nineteenth century foreign language teaching 1109
105. Context in contrastive linguistics: one and ein 1117
106. Contrastive linguistics and language typology: the three-way approach 1133
107. Notes on the terminology of applied linguistics 1147
108. Contrastive linguistics and language typology 1155
109. On the syntax and semantics of free relative clauses in English and Romanian 1165
110. Modal verbs in English and Danish 1183
111. Intensive language teaching: practice, problems, and prospects 1195
112. A textlinguistic analysis of German and English curricula vitae 1203
113. New aspects for foreign language learning and teaching from conversational analysis 1219
114. Tertium Comparationis in contrastive sociolinguistics 1233
115. More on pragmatic equivalence 1247
116. Barriers to intercultural communication between Americans and Japanese 1257
117. Language teaching in a prototypical situation 1273
118. How do indexicals fit into situations? On deixis in English and Polish 1289
119. An Elizabethan contrastive grammar of Spanish and French 1303
120. The interdisciplinary framework of the theory-dynamic phase in finalized linguistics 1311
121. Concerning the correction and non-correction of language-learners' errors 1321
122. English traditional grammars in the nineteenth century 1333
123. Language learners' errors in a pedagogical perspective 1357
124. Migranten und autochthone Sprachgruppen 1377
125. Expository paragraph structure in Slavic and Romance languages 1387
126. Glimpses into trends of contrastive linguistics and error analysis at AILA's world congresses from Cambridge (1968) to Brussels (1984) 1397
127. Some recent approaches to equivalence in Contrastive Studies 1405
128. On different types of translation 1421
129. The semantics of antonymic pairs of adjectives: elicitation test evidence from English and Polish 1427
130. The mother tongue and the foreign language in interaction 1443
131. Creating new grammars: on theoretical approaches to second language acquisition 1457
132. Definitions and first person pronoun involvement in Thomas Elyot's Dictionary 1465
133. Paraphrase strategies and the teaching of translation 1475
134. A processing explanation for a syntactic difference between English and Polish 1485
135. Indexes 1501