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The historical sociolinguistics of elite accent change: on why RP is not disappearing.(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT There is a perception common in the UK today, especially amongst journalists, that the RP accent is disappearing: for example, Public School pupils and younger members of the Royal Family are now often said to be speaking Cockney instead of RP. This claim is totally erroneous,...

Why does ga- not appear in the Gothic past participle?(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Why does ga- not appear in the Gothic past participle while ge- does in Old English and German? The study on the Cumulative tendency (CT) which Niwa has made for a long time is found to solve this problem. CT is a universal tendency to strengthen a weakened linguistic unit. So I...

The etymology of modern English monkey.(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Modern English monkey does not represent a Romance loan-word of Arabian origin and transmitted by Middle Low German but is a vernacular diminutive derived from monk. ********** The origin of the Mode word monkey, recorded since 1530 in John Palsgrave's English--French...

Names, derivational morphology, and Old English gender.(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT The paper argues that names constitute a primary linguistic category: they do not constitute a subclass of nouns. What have been regarded as formal devices for signalling "name-hood", "properness", and so on, are part of a language's derivational morphology. In this context, it...

The unfinished cline of grammaticalisation? Reflections on the uses of OE under and its derivatives.(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT A lexical category under functioned in Old English as a preposition, an adverb or a member of a compound. This raises the questions: of whether and, if so, to what extent did these different uses undergo a process of grammaticalisation? On the basis of the observations of...