Recording English, researching English, transforming English / Hans Sauer, Gaby Waxenberger (eds.) ; with the assistance of Veronika Traidl.

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Book
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English
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Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, [2013]
Description
xxi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
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    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Sounds and spellings
    • Homo loquens, homo scribens : on the role of writing in language change, with special reference to English / Trinidad Guzmán-González
    • The reflection of pre-old English sound changes in pre-old English runic inscriptions / Gaby Waxenberger
    • Middle English evidence of the elimination of velar fricatives : a prose corpus study / Jerzy Wełna
    • Words and phrases
    • The chain-mail coat terminology in Old English and the dating of Beowulf / Carla Morini
    • Old English geweald habban/āgan as a stylistic set phrase, compared with Old High German and old Saxon cognates / Kousuke Kaita
    • An etymological analysis of shell nouns / Annette Mantlik
    • Secondary agent constructions from a diachronic perspective / Naděžda Kudrnáčová
    • Conjunctions, clauses, and sentences
    • Connectives before Chaucer : Conjunctive for and its competition in Early Middle English / Mary Blockley
    • A history of Because-claases and the coordination-subordination dichotomy / Yuko Higashiizumi
    • The replacement of pe by pat in the history of English / Cristina Suarez Gomez
    • Impersonal and passive constructions from a view-point of functional category emergence / Fuyo Osawa
    • Dialects and their representation
    • The southern dialect in Thomas Churchyard's : the contention bettwixte Churchyearde and Camell (1552) / Maria F. Garcia-Bermejo Giner
    • Scoto-Cumbrian? : the representation of dialect in the works of Josiah Relph and Susanna Blamire / Julia Fernández Cuesta & Christopher Langmuir
    • Scholars, authors and their use of the past
    • J.R.R. Tolkien and the historical study of English / John Insley
    • Chinese translations of Beowulf / Stella Wang
    • Notes on contributors
    • Index.
    ISBN
    9783631642238 (hd.bd.)
    OCLC
    857664314
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    H - S
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