Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and Beyond: Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Welna on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (Hardcover)

Contents: Malgorzata Klos: Happy birþe - on the appearance of the noun birþe in Middle English ? Rafal Molencki: Some woolly remarks about wool ? Agnieszka Kocel: Palatalization and distribution of (non-)palatal forms as exemplified by Northern Middle English grammatical words ? Joanna Przedlacka: A historical study of Voice Onset Time in Received Pronunciation ? Piotr Ruszkiewicz: On (non-)deriving the agma in Present-Day English ? Albertas Steponavicius: Notes on paradigmatic phonologization ? Anna Budna: The present participle mark-ing in mediaeval London: a corpus study ? John G. Newman: The partitive genitive with higher numerals in Old and Middle English ? Merja Stenroos: The gender of loanwords in Southwest Midland texts of the thirteenth century ? Bernhard Diensberg: The grapheme combination ≪qu≫. Its origin and function in English ? Joanna Kopaczyk: The meanders of spelling, or Another look at early Middle Scots ≪ai/ay≫ digraphs ? Joanna Esquibel/Anna Wojtys: Following Welna’s quest for (dis)appearing dental stops: t-insertion in Middle and Early Modern English correspondence ? Ewa Ciszek: Words denoting ‘kingdom’ in La?amon’s Brut ? Marcin Krygier: Vernacularisation of the lexicon in the Wycliffe Bible: The Book of Ruth in MSS. CCC 4 and BL Royal I. C. VIII ? Hans Sauer: Old English plant names with suffixes, especially the suffix -el ? Kinga Sadej-Sobolewska: Tide and time in Middle English dialects ? Sylwester Lodej: Poland in the illustrative quotations of the Oxford English Dictionary ? Justyna Karczmarczyk: Three terms denoting dragons in Middle English poetry and prose. Dragon, drake and worm ? Grzegorz Andrzej Kleparski/Malgorzata Gorecka-Smolinska: The meanderings of MAMMAL and BIRD symbolism in the context of semantic change ? Barbara Kowalik: Who painted the mouse and who the vixen? Female animals in fables by Robert Henryson and Biernat of Lublin ? Xavier Dekeyser: From Old English BUTAN to present-day BUT. A textbook case of grammaticalization ? Magdalena Tomaszewska: On the auxiliary status of dare in Middle English: a corpus based study ? Mariusz Beclawski: Semantic change in linguistics: A synopsis of the main approaches throughout the 19th and 20th centuries ? Marta Sylwanowicz: Clene inwit or fule saule? A study of evaluative developments in the domain of CLEANLINESS ? Michael Bilynsky: The present-day and historical synonymy of English verbs: sequential similarity by the OED textual prototypes ? Natalia Budohoska: Linguistic situation in Kenya according to Labov’s social factors ? Mateusz Sarnecki: Prepositional complementation in five varieties of English: A corpus-based study.