Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English.

Intro -- SOCIOCULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF LEXIS AND TEXTIN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Philology as linguistically informed cultural history -- Conspicuous lexical choice in past societies -- Historical layers in text and genre -- Lexis, morphology, and a changing society -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 1. Conspicuous lexical choice in past societies -- Chapter 1. Old English ead in Anglo-Saxon given names: A comparative approach to Anglo-Saxon anthroponomy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Old English ead- and wel- and their cognates in Germanic poetry and anthroponomy -- 2.1 Ead- in Old English poetry -- 2.2 OE wela, Old Saxon welo, OHG uuóla "riches, prosperity" in poetry and anthroponomy -- 2.3 Weland -- 2.4 Plouton -- 2.5 Greek plouto- anthroponyms -- 2.6 Germanic anthroponyms containing the wel- element: The OE compound eadwela and its Germanic cognates -- 2.7 Anthroponomical implications of the poetic use of ead -- 3. Slavic žir -- 3.1 The lexeme for "riches" in Slavic languages -- 3.2 Slavic anthroponyms containing the žir- element -- 3.3 The lexeme žir in the Slavic languages -- 3.4 Slavic anthroponyms -- 4. Dithematic Germanic anthroponyms containing the ead- element -- 5. Conclusion -- Data sources -- References -- Chapter 2. News and relations: Highlighted textual labels in the titles of early modern news pamphlets -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous linguistic observations on textual labels in Early Modern English pamphlets -- 3. Materials and methods -- 4. Results and analysis -- 4.1 Textual labels -- 4.2 Visual highlighting -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3. "… all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air": Metaphorical connections in the history of English -- 0. Christian Kay, 1940-2016.

1. Mapping metaphorical connections -- 2. Examining metaphor through lexical overlap -- 3. 1Q The supernatural -- 4. Angels real and imagined -- 5. Roots of evil -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Dictionaries and online resources -- Books and articles -- Part 2. Historical layers in text and genre -- Chapter 4. Conservatism and innovation in Anglo-Saxon scribal practice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Relict forms -- 3.1 f-shaped &lt -- y&gt -- -- 3.2 Denasalization -- 3.3 Double vowels -- 4. B1 as emender -- 4.1 Successful interventions (lexical substitutions) -- 4.2 Unsuccessful interventions (word division) -- 4.3 Graphically based substitutions -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5. Old English wills: A genre study -- 1. Legal language -- 2. Old English legal writing -- 3. A new approach to research on OE wills -- 3.1 Method -- 3.2 Data -- 4. Corpus analysis -- 4.1 Text structure -- 4.2 Linguistic features -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- Corpus -- References -- Chapter 6. Spatio-temporal systems in Chaucer -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What are spatio-temporal systems? -- 3. Elements of space and time -- 3.1 Frequency analysis -- 3.2 Proximal vs. distal elements -- 4. Spatio-temporal systems in discourse -- 4.1 Typical combinations -- 4.2 Discourse-structuring elements -- 4.3 Combining proximal or distal elements -- 4.4 The alternation between proximal and distal perspectives -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7. "A riddle to myself I am": Argument shifting in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. English congregational song as a genre -- 3. Argument shifting -- 4. Corpus and methodology -- 5. Argument shifting in English congregational song -- 5.1 Main results -- 5.2 Meter and rhyme -- 5.3 Subtypes of argument shifting -- 5.4 The two major patterns of argument shifting.

5.5 Summary -- 6. Comparison: Argument shifting in secular poetry -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Primary sources -- Corpus of congregational songs -- Secular poetry -- References -- Appendix -- Part 3. Lexis, morphology, and a changing society -- Chapter 8. Common to the North of England and to New England: British English regionalisms in John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms -- 2.1 General aims and sources -- 2.2 Americanisms -- 3. British English regionalisms in the Dictionary of Americanisms -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 9. Betwixt, amongst, and amidst: The diachronic development of function words with final /st/ -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Between -- 2.1 Etymological notes and historical overview based on the HC -- 2.2 Period-by-period description -- 2.3 Historical summary of between -- 3. among -- 3.1 Etymological notes and historical overview based on the HC -- 3.2 Period-by-period description -- 3.3 Historical summary of among -- 4. amid -- 4.1 Etymological notes and historical overview based on the HC -- 4.2 Period-by-period description -- 4.3 Historical summary of amid -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Proposed accounts of final t -- 5.2 Paragoge -- 5.3 Word boundary morphonology -- 5.4 Semantic association with the superlative -- 5.5 Small lexical group of function words -- 5.6 Accounting for the decline of the types with /st/ -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Corpora and dictionaries -- Secondary sources -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Chapter 10. English word clipping in a diachronic perspective -- 1. Definition of terms - Scope of coverage -- 2. A historical overview of the data -- 2.1 Old English -- 2.2 Middle English -- 2.3 Later patterns of clipping.

3. The big picture: Why does it matter? -- 3.1 Clippings as new evidence for onset -- 3.2 Clippings and the salience of stress -- 3.3 Morphological identity and clipping -- 3.4 Clippings and left-alignment -- 4. Summary: The shifting priorities in clipping -- Abbreviations -- References -- Index.

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