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Sociocultural dimensions of lexis and text in the history of English [electronic resource] / [edited by] Peter Petré, Hubert Cuyckens, Frauke D'Hoedt

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International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (18th : 2014 : Louvain, Belgium)
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
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1 online resource
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Petré, Peter (Linguist), Cuyckens, H., and D'Hoedt, Frauke
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Introduction: philology as linguistically informed cultural history / Peter Petré and Hubert Cuyckens -- Conspicuous lexical choice in past societies. Old English ead in Anglo-Saxon given names: a comparative approach to Anglo-Saxon anthroponomy / Olga Khallieva Boiché -- News and relations: highlighted textual labels in the titles of early modern news pamphlets / Carla Suhr -- "All spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air": metaphorical connections in the history of English / Marc Alexander and Christian Kay -- Historical layers in text and genre. Conservatism and innovation in Anglo-Saxon scribal practice / Christine Wallis -- Old English wills: a genre study / Lilo Moessner -- Spatio-temporal systems in Chaucer / Minako Nakayasu -- "A riddle to myself I am": argument shifting in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 / Kirsten Gather -- Lexis, morphology, and a changing society. Common to the North of England and to New England: British English regionalisms in John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms / Javier Ruano-Garrcía -- Betwixt, amongst, and amidst: the diachronic development of function words with final / st/ / Ryuichi Hotta -- English word clipping in a diachronic perspective / Donka Minkova.
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9789027263995 (pdf)
9789027200792 (hb ; alk. paper)
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Selected papers presented at the 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, (ICEHL18), held at the University of Leuven, July 14-18, 2014.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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