This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora, dialectological methods, and the study of translated texts. It also breaks new ground by applying relevant insights from other fields, among them postcolonial linguistics and anthropology. This pluralistic approach brings new and under-studied issues within the scope of explanation, and challenges some long-held assumptions about the nature of historical change in English. The volume will be of interest to an audience interested in the history of English, and the impact of its contact with Viking Age Norse, Old French, and Latin.
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Adapting the Dynamic Model to historical linguistics: Case studies on the Middle English and Anglo-Norman contact situation
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How does causal connection originate?: Evidence from translation correspondences between the Old English Boethius and the Consolatio
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Old Northumbrian in the Scottish Borders: Evidence from place-names
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From eadig to happy: The lexical replacement in the field of Medieval English adjectives of fortune
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Distributional changes in synonym sets: The case of fragrant, scented, and perfumed in 19th- and 20th-century American English
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The taking off and catching on of etymological spellings in Early Modern English: Evidence from the EEBO Corpus
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Speech acts in the history of English: Gaps and paths of evolution
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