De Gruyter Mouton, 2007. — 315 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 53). The essays of this volume employ diverse strategies for conceptualizing the history of English as at once chaotic and yet amenable to circumscribed analyses that incorporate a broad view of language change. Several of the world's leading scholars of the English language contribute to the overall...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2009. — 330 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 62). This is a ground-breaking study in the historical semantics and pragmatics of English in the 16th and 17th centuries. It examines the meaning, use and cultural underpinnings of confident- and certain-sounding epistemic expressions, such as forsooth, by my troth and in faith, and first person...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 296 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 94). This book looks at how historical linguists accommodate the written records used for evidence. The limitations of the written record restrict our view of the past and the conclusions that we can draw about its language. However, the same limitations force us to be aware of the particularities of...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. — 270 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 115). Morphological typology is usually limited to the realm of grammar. Accordingly, English is considered an analytic language due to its poor grammatical morphology – but what about the lexicon? Taking a twofold approach, this study investigates the typological development of English nouns since 1150....
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 410 p. German loanwords in English: An historical dictionary is the largest and most up-to-date collection of English words and multiword lexical units borrowed from the German, consisting of over 6,000 items. All major dictionaries in English were surveyed, including the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster s Third New...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Севастополь: СевГУ, 2025. — 87 c. Цель учебно-методического пособия для студентов, изучающих английский язык как первый иностранный, состоит в том, чтобы помочь студентам усвоить наиболее важные моменты фонологического, грамматического и словарного строя английского языка на различных этапах его развития в систематическом порядке, что обеспечивает...
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. — cxii, xxii, 299 p. — (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 57). This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. — xx, 300 p. — (NOWELE Supplement Series 21). From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776 is the second volume of a set of three offering a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and...
With the assistance of G. W. S. Friedrichsen and R. W. Burchfield. — Oxford University Press, 1983. — 1039 p. This text is the most complete and the most reliable etymological dictionary of the English language ever published. There are some 24,000 main entries, and with the derivatives, the total number of words treated is more than 38,000. Each word is accompanied by its...
With the assistance of G. W. S. Friedrichsen and R. W. Burchfield. — Oxford University Press, 1983. — 1039 p. This text is the most complete and the most reliable etymological dictionary of the English language ever published. There are some 24,000 main entries, and with the derivatives, the total number of words treated is more than 38,000. Each word is accompanied by its...
Ayto John, Barratt Alexandra (eds.). — London; New York; Toronto: Oxford University Press: 1984. — 256 p. — (Early English Text Society. Original Series 287). Aelred of Rievaulx, one of the leading and most influential figures of early English Cistercianism, was born at Hexham and died at Rievaulx Abbey, of which he had been abbot for some twenty years, on 12th January 1167. He...
Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003. — 567 p. — (Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies 246). Revising his 1997 Ph.D. dissertation for Oxford University, Dance grapples with a number of questions concerning the considerable borrowing of words from various Scandinavian languages in the English dialect spoken and written in western...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 316 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 18). Table of contents: Preface Contents List of Contributors Introduction Spanish Loanwords in English by 1900 Recent borrowings from Spanish into English Stylistic aspects of Spanish borrowings in the political press: Lexical and morphological variations Spanish loanwords in contemporary American...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. — xcv + 442 p. — (Textes vernaculaires du moyen âge 28). The scene is Rome in the fifteenth century, Golden Rome, a magnet drawing pilgrims by its architectural attractions and the magnitude of its religious importance as the mother of faith. The Austin friar John Capgrave attended Rome for the Jubilee in 1450, including the Lenten stations, and his...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. — 856 p. — (Textes vernaculaires du moyen âge 29). Ce poème moyen-anglais relate les exploits du roi Richard Coeur de Lion lors de la troisième croisade. Il occupe une place à part dans le corpus des romans moyen-anglais du fait que son héros est un roi anglais et que les événements racontés sont historiques. Cependant, au fil des réécritures, la vérité...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. — 174 p. — (Textes vernaculaires du moyen âge 8). This is the first volume of a two-volume project whose aim is to publish all the known Middle English manuscript translations of the French Somme le roi, a thirteenth-century manual of religious instruction offering teaching on the Decalogue, the seven deadly sins and their remedies, compiled by the...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. — 503 p. — (Textes vernaculaires du moyen âge 9). Parmi les romans moyen-anglais, le petit groupe des lais bretons se distingue par un ensemble de traits spécifiques : brièveté, intervention du merveilleux celtique, place prépondérante accordée à l’amour. Huit poèmes qui répondent à ces caractéristiques sont parvenus jusqu’à nous. A la fin du XIVe...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 318 p. The volume provides a wide-ranging account of Middle English, organized by linguistic level. Not only are the traditional areas of linguistic study explored in state-of-the-art chapters, but the volume also covers less traditional areas of study, including creolization, sociolinguistics, literary language (including the language of Chaucer),...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 281 p. The volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters investigate the state-of-the art in the linguistics of Old English and explore key areas of debate such as dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 264 p. The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English and explores key questions and debates. A re-evaluation of the concept of periodization is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional linguistic areas – phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics – and chapters on prosody, idioms, fixed expressions, onomastics,...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 346 p. This volume provides a comprehensive account of Early Modern English, organized by linguistic level. The volume not only presents detailed outlines of the traditional language levels, it also explores key questions and debates, such as do-periphrasis, the Great Vowel Shift, pronouns and relativization, literary language (including the language...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 414 p. This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 416 p. This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 346 p. This volume provides a comprehensive account of Early Modern English, organized by linguistic level. The volume not only presents detailed outlines of the traditional language levels, it also explores key questions and debates, such as do-periphrasis, the Great Vowel Shift, pronouns and relativization, literary language (including the language...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 320 p. The volume provides a wide-ranging account of Middle English, organized by linguistic level. Not only are the traditional areas of linguistic study explored in state-of-the-art chapters, but the volume also covers less traditional areas of study, including creolization, sociolinguistics, literary language (including the language of Chaucer),...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 282 p. The volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters investigate the state-of-the art in the linguistics of Old English and explore key areas of debate such as dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 266 p. The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English and explores key questions and debates. A re-evaluation of the concept of periodization is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional linguistic areas – phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics – and chapters on prosody, idioms, fixed expressions, onomastics,...
London: Constable, 2013. — 116 p. — ISBN 978-1-4721-0941-5. What do the following ten words all have in common - haggard, mews, codger, arouse, musket, poltroon, gorge, allure, pounce and turn-tail? All fairly familiar and straightforward words, after a little digging into their histories it turns out that all of them derive from falconry: the adjective haggard described an...