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Tables of Contents for Studies in English Historical Liguistics and Philology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Jacek Fisiak: Preface
xi
Tabula gratulatoria
xiii
Curriculum vitae
xix
xxi
On the grammaticalization of the parenthetical `I'm afraid'
1
10
Sapir revisited
11
6
Changing politeness strategies in English requests - a diachronic investigation
17
20
Col-blak and snow-whit: Chaucer's noun-adjective compounds
37
14
Middle English dialectal differences in some manuscripts of Rolle's Ego dormio
51
8
Pragmatic uses of will future constructions in Early Modern English
59
24
Geworden waeron in Orosius 1 5.24.10 (Bately)
83
20
From ehtan to persecuten
103
18
Decline of multiple negation in Middle English: The case of Caxton's Reynard the fox
121
18
On the middle voice in Present-day English
139
18
The development of stative adverbs in English
157
18
Subordinate clauses with VS order in Old English
175
16
Palatalization of sonorants in Older Scots
191
14
The simplification of the initial [wr-] cluster in Middle English
205
20
Relative pronoun selection in the Ancrene Wisse
225
14
On object fronting in Old English
239
16
Stylistic variation in verbs of saying in The Canterbury tales: a tell-tale variety
255
12
Doctors and dictionaries in sixteenth-century England
267
26
After Jones: some thoughts on the final collapse of the grammatical gender system in English
293
14
A word on the concurrence of animate/human subject and the passival progressive
307
20
A version of the verse legend of St. Anastasia written twice by different scribes in the same ms
327
16
Contrasting patterns of s-plural attachment to n-stem neuters in Middle English
343
12
An explanation of to(-) compounding in Old English based on the Cumulative Tendency
355
20
Old English palatal diphthongization: With special reference to the West-Saxon Gospel of St. Matthew
375
14
Aspects of `Wulfstan imitators' in Late Old English sermon writing
389
16
Chaucer's syntactic variants and what they tell us
405
14
``The most unstable part of the English language'': Early linguists on the subject of stress
419
14
Some observation on agen: Towards a semantic interpretation
433
18
On the function of se/seo/paet in Old English
451
18
The word withal: Some remarks on its historical development
469
20
Index of Names
489