Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies articles from January 1 1997

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies archives from January 1 1997

Editor's note.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1997... There are few scholars in the field of English historical linguistics nowadays who have influenced the field more profoundly over the last twenty years or so than Roger Lass. He is a remarkable man and scholar: unusually modest in his personal...

Tabula Gratulatoria.
January 1, 1997... Adamska-Salaciak, Arleta Poznan, Poland Adamson, Sylvia Cambridge, Great Britain Anderson, John Edinburgh, Great Britain Awedyk, Wieslaw Poznan, Poland Bergh, Gunnar Goteborg, Sweden ...

Curriculum Vitae.(Bibliography)
January 1, 1997... Born: New York City, USA, January 1, 1937. Education: The New York School for Social Research, New York City, B.A. (Honours), 1961; Yale University, Ph.D. (English language and literature), 1965. Posts: Lecturer in English, Indiana...

List of Publications.(Bibliography)
January 1, 1997... (A = article, R = review, B = book) 1965 A 1 "Two Middle English cautionary lyrics, from a Yale University MS". Anglia 83:172-5. 1966 A 2 "Poem as sacrament: Transcendence of time in the Advent Sequence from the Exter Book"....

Preliminaries to a history of sentential subjects in English.
January 1, 1997... 1. Subjects in English The notion "subject" is, as described in the gloss offered by Roger Lass (1987: 362), "extremely complex, and it's not clear whether all languages have such a category, and what its defining criteria ought to be". *...

Old English <ie>: that is (,) an orthographic problem (noch einmal).
January 1, 1997... 1. What's the problem now? The West-Saxon Old English use of the graphic sequence has been the subject of so much controversy (with respect to, for instance, the phonetic quality of the i-mutated diphthongs so represented, the...

On the histories of de-verbal adjectives in Middle English.
January 1, 1997... 0. Preface As a group historical linguists seem curiously attached to a rather positivist view of history. We seem to think that by putting together as much detail as possible, we can find out "what really happened" (Ranke's famous "wie es...

Carwash and rent-a-car a typological investigation.
January 1, 1997... Carwash (1) is not found among the headwords of OED. Rent-a-car is referred to under rent (V1), the date of the first quotation of the word being given as 1924. According to WCD, carwash is an "area or structure equipped with facilities for...

Usage in the usage dictionary of anglicisms in selected European languages.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1997... Multa renascentur quae iam cecidere cadentque quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula si volet usus quem penes arbitrium est et vis et norma loquendi. (Horace, Ars Poetica) Many a word yfalne shall eft...

Sign-oriented vs. form-oriented linguistics and word-formation. (1).
January 1, 1997... 1.1. Simplifying a great deal and abstracting from the details, it can be argued that the history of linguistics in this century until fairly recently was basically dominated by two major currents, which could be characterised by the labels...

Negative-initial sentences in Old and Middle English.
January 1, 1997... Beside other things best left unnamed here, I share with Roger a love for historical puzzles and scenarios. Therefore, a small contribution on a little ripple in the verb syntax of the oldest English seems a fitting tribute in the context of...

Worth(y).
January 1, 1997... To an earthbound empiricist Roger Lass is an annoying fellow. He is so full of bright ideas racily expressed. He adduces plenty of real data, and tells mediaevalists home truths, e.g. on difficulties in practice of maintaining a spelling-system...

Theory recycling: the case of i-umlaut.
January 1, 1997... 1. Introduction Historical linguistics in general is a very conservative field. New linguistic theories have to wait for years until they are applied to diachronic research and even then are viewed with certain suspicion by the majority of...

Towards a taxonomy of linguistic jokes. (1).
January 1, 1997... 1. Introduction The range of criteria that have been used for classifying verbal jokes is large and includes, among others, such terms as theme, subject, cycle, target (butt), level of propriety, origin, narrative form, and length of the...

Lexicography from below. (1).
January 1, 1997... It is a pleasure to contribute to the festcbrift of a colleague and scholar whose stature in historical linguistics, phonology and the general theoretical foundations of our subject is undisputed. As far as languages go, Roger Lass is active as...

Sex differences in historical syntax: Early Modern English testimonies in the ms minutes of the court of governors of the royal hospitals of bridewell and Bethlem 1559-1599. A pilot study.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1997... Introduction Do men and women speak differently? Did they speak differently from each other in the past? The first question has provoked much work in recent decades, mostly within the domains of discourse analysis and phonology. Early...

The areal analysis of dialectal features: the gravity centre method as applied to sed morphosyntactic data.
January 1, 1997... The morphosyntactic data on which the descriptive maps below are based are those published in Viereck -- Ramisch (1991, 1997). (1) The maps are produced by Harald Handler of the University of Marburg who also developed the gravity centre method...

On drifts and shifts.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1997... 1. Introduction In this paper we address some issues raised in William Labov's recent book (1) and in his closely-related paper on what he refers to as "the three dialects of English" (Labov 1991). At the same time we offer some comments...

Something old, something new: English orthography in the thirteenth-century South-West Midlands. *.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1997... "In East Anglia (especially Norfolk), and also in Lincolnshire, an individual writer's range of variant spellings for a single word is generally greater than in most other counties...; the contrast with the more disciplined orthographies of...

Now you see it, now you don't: Middle English Lengthening in Closed Syllables. (1).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1997... Es racht sich ganz einfach, sagte Reger, wenn wir uns dazu hergeben, em Objekt einfach blind zu akzeptieren noch dazu uber Jahre und Jahrzehnte und moglicherweise ein ganzes Leben lang, ja gar verehren und lieben, ohne es immer...

In search of happiness: felicitas and beatitudo in Early English Boethius translations.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1997... 1. Introductory In this paper I will discuss the expressions of the concept of happiness from Old to Modern English and hope that this choice of topic will be interpreted as wishing "many happy returns" to Roger Lass, whose comparative...

Reciprocal pronouns: from discontinuity to unity.
January 1, 1997... 1. Introduction Present-day English has two reciprocal pronouns, one another and each other. According to Quirk et al. (1985: 364-365), they are related to the reflexive pronouns in that they express a 'two-way reflexive relationship'....

A case of David and Goliath: the changing position of Afrikaans vis-a-vis eleven official languages. (1).
January 1, 1997... 1. Introduction As part of its colonial heritage, South Africa has had a history of linguistic hegemony. Originally, while it was a colony administered by the Dutch East India Company (1652-1795), Dutch was the only official language of...

Recycling inversion: the case of initial adverbs and negators in Early Modern English.
January 1, 1997... 1. Introduction This paper is an empirical footnote to the discussion launched by Roger Lass (1990) of exaptation as a special kind of process of language change. Lass (1990: 80) adopts the term from evolutionary biology to refer to "the...

Glossal translation in the Lindisfarne Gospel according to Saint Matthew.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1997... 1. Everyone who has ever looked at Old English manuscripts in the British Museum remembers the Lindisfarne Gospels. This beautiful specimen of medieval scriptorium works, illuminated in the Hiberno-Saxon style is hardy comparable in its...

Albeit a conjunction, yet it is a clause: a counter-example to unidirectionality hypothesis? (1).
January 1, 1997... 1. Introduction In this paper I discuss the expression al be it in the context of grammaticalization, as presented most fully in the book by Hopper -- Traugott (1993). I will claim that this phrase, which arose in English in the 14th...