"This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including 'big data' analyses of large corpora, dialectological methods, and the study of translated texts. It also breaks new ground by applying relevant insights from other fields, among them postcolonial linguistics and anthropology. This pluralistic approach brings new and under-studied issues within the scope of explanation, and challenges some long-held assumptions about the nature of historical change in English. The volume will be of interest to an audience interested in the history of English, and the impact of its contact with Viking Age Norse, Old French, and Latin"--.

• ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The papers in this volume
• Chapter 2. Adapting the Dynamic Model to historical linguistics: Case studies on the Middle English and Anglo-Norman contact situation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Dynamic Model
    • 2.1 Origins and motivations of the model
    • 2.2 A brief description of the model
    • 2.3 Adaptations of the model
  • 3. The Anglo-Norman contact situation
  • 4. Adapting the Dynamic Model
    • 4.1 Anglo-Norman in the Dynamic Model
    • 4.2 Middle English in the Dynamic Model
  • 5. Case studies
    • 5.1 Anglo-Norman verbal prefixes in Middle English
    • 5.2 Prepositional secondary predicate constructions
    • 5.3 Of-Objects
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
• Chapter 3. An account of the use of fronting and clefting in Cornish English
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The introduction and spread of English in Cornwall
  • 3. Cornish English
  • 4. Focusing devices
  • 5. Corpus and methodology
  • 6. Analysis
  • 7. A possible source for Cornish English fronting and the Celtic hypothesis
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Sources
  • References
  • Appendix
• Chapter 4. How does causal connection originate?: Evidence from translation correspondences between the Old English Boethius and the Consolatio
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 The Old English Boethius as a translated text
    • 2.2 Translation-studies framework
    • 2.3 Causal connectors in Latin and OE
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Findings and discussion
    • 4.1 Translation correspondences
    • 4.2 CCC-relations in the two texts
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Sources
  • References
• Chapter 5. Old Northumbrian in the Scottish Borders: Evidence from place-names
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Dictionary evidence and place-name evidence
  • 3. Morphological evidence
  • 4. Phonological evidence
  • 5. Lexical evidence
  • 6. Semantic evidence
  • 7. Further information
  • Sources
  • References
• Chapter 6. From eadig to happy: The lexical replacement in the field of Medieval English adjectives of fortune
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Old English adjectives of happiness and their further development in Middle English
    • 2.1 OE ēadig > ME edi
    • 2.2 OE (ge)sǣlig > ME seli
    • 2.3 OE (ge)bletsod > ME blessed
    • 2.4 OE blīþe > ME blithe
  • 3. Romance loanwords
    • 3.1 Eurous
    • 3.2 Fortunate
  • 4. The origin and development of happy
    • 4.1 Etymology
    • 4.2 Hap- in English
    • 4.3 The noun hap in Middle English
    • 4.4 The adjective happy
    • 4.5 The adverb happily
  • 5. The adjective lucky
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Sources
  • References
• Chapter 7. Distributional changes in synonym sets: The case of fragrant, scented, and perfumed in 19th- and 20th-century American English
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and methodology
    • 2.1 Attributive uses
    • 2.2 Collocations
  • 3. Results and discussion
    • 3.1 Conditional inference trees
    • 3.2 Collocational networks
    • 3.3 Discussion
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Sources
  • References
• Chapter 8. The taking off and catching on of etymological spellings in Early Modern English: Evidence from the EEBO Corpus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous studies
  • 3. The EEBO Corpus
  • 4. Analysis and discussion
    • 4.1 admonish
    • 4.2 amethyst
    • 4.3 apothecary
    • 4.4 captive
    • 4.5 cauldron
    • 4.6 cognizance
    • 4.7 falcon
    • 4.8 lethargy “dullness”
    • 4.9 lethargy “lead”
    • 4.10 orthography
    • 4.11 phantasm
    • 4.12 phantom
    • 4.13 pheasant
    • 4.14 salmon
    • 4.15 verdict
    • 4.16 Co-occurrence of spelling variants
  • 5. Process of etymologising: A case of lexical diffusion?
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Sources
  • References
  • Appendix 1. The ratio of etymological spellings for each item in each decade
  • Appendix 2. Growth of etymological spellings
• Chapter 9. Speech acts in the history of English: Gaps and paths of evolution
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Expressive speech acts in Old English: The case of apologising
  • 3. The evolution of the speech act of apologising: Speech act first
  • 4. The evolution of the speech act of congratulating: Loanword first
  • 5. The evidence of speech-act loanwords: A pilot study on Scandinavian loans in Middle English
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Sources
  • References
• Index