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The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?

Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie

The book investigates the development of ‘speaker-oriented adverbs’ (SOAs) such as frankly, surprisingly, and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope, i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historically prior… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 287] 2025. ix, 188 pp.

A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis

Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann

The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English language. It covers all levels of morpho-syntactic form-meaning units: including sentence types, tense and aspect, argument structure, phrases, idioms,… read more

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 5] 2024. xv, 315 pp.

Interdisciplinary approaches to the language of pop culture

Edited by Rocío Montoro and Valentin Werner

Special issue of English Text Construction 16:2 (2023) v, 152 pp.

Saipanese English: Local and global sociolinguistic trends

Dominique B. Hess

In this volume, the emergence of English in Saipan is examined in the complex context of its colonial past. The focus lies on the influence of the American era on the linguistic outcomes in Saipan. Sociolinguistic interviews with indigenous Chamorros and Saipan Carolinians were analyzed using… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G69] 2023. xx, 249 pp.

Collocations as a Language Resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology

Sonja Poulsen

Are collocations problems or solutions to problems? If you take the perspective of the foreign learner, as in traditional phraseology, they are certainly challenging, and they have therefore been categorized as arbitrary, or even defective, deviations from an assumed norm of full compositionality.… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 71] 2022. xvi, 348 pp.

Earlier North American Englishes

Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers

Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical contexts, this volume brings together research from various traditions,… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G66] 2022. viii, 261 pp.

Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications

Edited by Alba E. Ruz, Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares

The focus of Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications is on the relevance of paradigms for linguistic description. Paradigmatic organization has traditionally been considered an inherent feature of inflectional morphology, but research in the last decades clearly shows the existence of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 225] 2022. vii, 382 pp.

Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English: Records of communities and people

Olga Timofeeva

This is the first extensive study of Old English to utilise the insights and methodologies of sociolinguistics. Building on previous philological and historical work, it takes into account the sociology and social dialectology of Old English and offers a description of its speech communities… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 13] 2022. xv, 204 pp.

Voicing Absences/Presences in a Damaged World

Edited by Jessica Maufort and Marc Maufort

Special issue of English Text Construction 15:2 (2022) v, 83 pp.

Bermudian English: A sociohistorical and linguistic profile

Nicole Eberle

Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the variety within the canon of other lesser-known varieties of English, and provides a… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G64] 2021. xv, 231 pp.

The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety

Edited by Anne Schröder

The English language as spoken in Namibia has virtually been overlooked in most textbooks, handbooks, and surveys of varieties of English around the world, or else has only been mentioned in passing. However, this variety of English has recently attracted the attention of several researchers and… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G65] 2021. ix, 305 pp.

Grammar of Spoken and Written English

Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan

The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing… read more

[Not in series, 232] 2021. xxxv, 1220 pp.

Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English

Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola

This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 96] 2020. xii, 305 pp.

Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö

Edited by Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson

This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While previous works on the topic have focused on more limited time periods, this book covers data from the 16th century up to the present day. The… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 97] 2020. xiii, 348 pp.

Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes

Edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia

Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varieties of English uses corpus-based investigations as one of the chief methodologies. This volume comprises descriptions of the many new… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] 2019. ix, 403 pp.

Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century. Including the LMEMT Corpus

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen

The eighteenth century in medicine is a fallow period lying between the innovations of the Royal Society (1662–) with its new ways of doing science and the nineteenth-century achievements of clinical and laboratory medicine. The period deserves more attention, as the seeds of some modern… read more

[Not in series, 221] 2019. xix, 432 pp., incl. CD-RoM

Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English

Sofia Rüdiger

Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extraordinary and vibrant status of the English language in South Korean society (demonstrated, for example, by the notion of English Fever), research on the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G62] 2019. xvii, 228 pp.

Explorations in English Historical Syntax

Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe

The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 198] 2018. viii, 312 pp.

The Noun Phrase in English: Past and present

Edited by Alex Ho-Cheong Leung and Wim van der Wurff

Building on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data, with the two often shedding light on each other in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 246] 2018. v, 229 pp.

Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily

Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 8] 2018. xi, 311 pp. | open access

Revisiting Shakespeare's Language

Edited by Annalisa Baicchi, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca

Special issue of English Text Construction 11:1 (2018) v, 168 pp.

Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse

Edited by Lieven Vandelanotte, Wout Van Praet and Lieselotte Brems

Special issue of English Text Construction 10:2 (2017) v, 159 pp.

English in the Netherlands: Functions, forms and attitudes

Alison Edwards

This volume provides the first comprehensive investigation of the Netherlands in the World Englishes paradigm. It explores the history of English contact, the present spread of English and attitudes towards English in the Netherlands. It describes the development and analysis of the Corpus of Dutch… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G56] 2016. xv, 271 pp.

New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building bridges

Edited by Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja and Sarah Chevalier

This book aims at providing a cross-section of current developments in English linguistics, by tracing recent approaches to corpus linguistics and statistical methodology, by introducing new inter- and multidisciplinary refinements to empirical methodology, and by documenting the on-going emphasis… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 177] 2016. vi, 326 pp.

Textplicating Iconophones: Articulatory iconic action in Ulysses

Nurit Levy

This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyce’s Ulysses. In its hypothesis, the greater the role of sensory experience in the message of a text, the more likely it is to employ linguistic representation in articulated… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 72] 2016. xvii, 333 pp.

Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate

Edited by Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo

Ugandan English is a variety that has scarcely been noticed in past research. This timely volume brings together African and European scholars in a first-ever collection of articles that offer comprehensive discussions of the historical and present-day sociolinguistics of English in Uganda and… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G59] 2016. vi, 280 pp.

World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations

Edited by Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez-Gómez

This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches. It contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the criteria that make a… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G57] 2016. viii, 285 pp.

World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes

Michael Percillier

Bridging the gap between the fields of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition, this volume offers an in-depth comparative analysis of two postcolonial varieties of English (Singapore and Malaysian English) and neighbouring Indonesian learner English in order to examine the Outer/Expanding… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G58] 2016. xviii, 205 pp.

The dynamicity of communication below, around and above the clause

Edited by Ben Clarke and Jorge Arús-Hita

Special issue of English Text Construction 9:1 (2016) v, 219 pp.

Grammatical Change in English World-Wide

Edited by Peter Collins

The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts, with ten chapters on ‘Inner Circle’ varieties… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 67] 2015. vi, 488 pp.

Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Edited by Paula Prescod

This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines, written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp.

The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English

Tobias Bernaisch

This book offers the first in-depth corpus-based description of written Sri Lankan English. In comparison to British and Indian English, lexical and lexicogrammatical features of Sri Lankan English are analysed in a complex corpus environment comprising data from the respective components of the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G54] 2015. xiv, 248 pp.

Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars

No literary tradition in early modern Europe was as obsessed with the interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with ‘foreign’ languages and the phenomenon of ‘translation’, as English Renaissance drama. Originally published as a themed issue of English Text Construction … read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 73] 2015. viii, 215 pp.

Researching Northern English

Edited by Raymond Hickey

Northern English has become the focus of intensive research in the past decade or so, following on a series of dedicated conferences. The present book brings together leading-edge contributions on various aspects of language use, variation and change in the North of England. The volume covers the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G55] 2015. x, 483 pp.

South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English

Carolin Biewer

Second-language varieties of English in the South Pacific have received scant attention, until now. This monograph offers the first book-length analysis of the sociolinguistics and morphosyntax of three representatives of South Pacific L2 English in comparison – two of which have never been… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G52] 2015. xvi, 351 pp.

Educated Fiji English: Lexico-grammar and variety status

Lena Zipp

This volume contains a comprehensive corpus-based study of prepositional constructions in written Fiji English. It explores the endo- and exonormative dynamics of norm-giving and norm-developing varieties and contributes to our understanding of structural nativization and variety formation in a… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G47] 2014. xvii, 230 pp.

English in the Indian Diaspora

Edited by Marianne Hundt and Devyani Sharma

Diasporic populations offer unique opportunities for the study of language variation and change. This volume is the first collection of sociolinguistic studies of English use across the historically complex and widely dispersed Indian diaspora. The contributions describe particular sociohistorical… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G50] 2014. ix, 244 pp.

The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond

Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch

This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G49] 2014. xviii, 513 pp.

Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English

Anna Rosen

Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G48] 2014. xii, 237 pp.

A History of the English Language: Revised edition

Elly van Gelderen

The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a… read more

[Not in series, 183] 2014. xx, 338 pp.

Korean English: A corpus-driven study of a new English

Glenn Hadikin

The English language is changing every day and it is us – the individual speakers and writers – that drive those changes in small ways by choosing to use certain strings of words over others. This book discusses and describes some of the choices made by speakers from South Korea by examining the… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 62] 2014. xiv, 192 pp.

Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule

Marcelle Cole

This volume provides both a quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis of Late Northumbrian verbal morphosyntax as recorded in the Old English interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. It focuses in particular on the attestation of the subject type and adjacency constraints that… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 25] 2014. xvii, 286 pp.

Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach

Edited by Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar

The corpus-based studies in this volume explore biomedical research writing in English from a variety of perspectives. The articles in this collection delve into the lexicographic issues involved in building an electronic database of collocations and lexical bundles, offer insight on the teaching… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 56] 2013. xiii, 214 pp.

Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech

Sandra Götz

This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech.… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 53] 2013. xxiii, 238 pp.

Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho

Uncovering the meaning of individual words or entire texts is a complex process that needs to take into consideration the multiple interactions of linguistic organization including orthography, morphology, syntax and, ultimately, pragmatics. The papers in this volume pay close attention to these… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 148] 2013. vii, 348 pp.

Metaphors in Learner English

Susan Nacey

This volume presents results from a corpus-based investigation into the metaphorical production of foreign language learners, comparing texts written by Norwegian (L2) learners of English with those written by British (L1) students. Three types of questions are addressed. The first has empirically… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 2] 2013. xi, 279 pp.

New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca

Heiko Motschenbacher

This volume complements earlier work on English as a lingua franca (ELF) by providing an in-depth study of the phenomenon from a decidedly European perspective. Distancing itself from more traditional approaches to the study of English in Europe (linguistic imperialism and “Euro-English”), the… read more

[Not in series, 182] 2013. xi, 249 pp.

The Politics of English: South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific

Edited by Lionel Wee, Robbie B.H. Goh and Lisa Lim

This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 4] 2013. ix, 322 pp.

The Anglicization of European Lexis

Edited by Cristiano Furiassi, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González

This volume explores the lexical influence of English on European languages, a topical theme with linguistic and cultural implications. It provides an extensive introductory background to a cross-national view of English-induced lexical borrowing, posing crucial analytical questions such as what… read more

[Not in series, 174] 2012. ix, 356 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, texts and genres

Edited by Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger

The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 324] 2012. xviii, 271 pp.

English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use

Edited by Ee-Ling Low and Azirah Hashim

This volume provides a first systematic, comprehensive account of English in Southeast Asia (SEA) based on current research by leading scholars in the field. The volume first provides a systematic account of the linguistic features across all sub-varieties found within each country. It also has a… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G42] 2012. xiv, 394 pp.

Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes

Edited by Marianne Hundt and Ulrike Gut

This volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world. The contributions explore the structural unity and diversity of New Englishes and thus investigate central aspects of dialect evolution… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G43] 2012. xiv, 294 pp.

New Perspectives on Irish English

Edited by Bettina Migge and Máire Ní Chiosáin

This volume brings together current research by international scholars on the varieties of English spoken in Ireland. The papers apply contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches and frameworks to a range of topics. A number of papers explore the distribution of linguistic features in… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G44] 2012. xvii, 361 pp.

The Syntax of Spoken Indian English

Claudia Lange

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as ‘typical’, but have never before been studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on the domain… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G45] 2012. xv, 265 pp.

Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap

Edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Marianne Hundt

The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 44] 2011. vi, 222 pp.

Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar

Marco Schilk

This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer –collocational… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 46] 2011. xiii, 182 pp.

Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)

Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker

Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England examines various aspects of the witness depositions comprising An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) on the accompanying CD-ROM.ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available… read more

[Not in series, 162] 2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)

Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta

The corpus Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) is the second component of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English… read more

[Not in series, 160] 2010. xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

English Prepositions Explained: Revised edition

Seth Lindstromberg

This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target… read more

[Not in series, 157] 2010. xiii, 273 pp.

An Introduction to the Grammar of English: Revised edition

Elly van Gelderen

It has been eight years since An Introduction to the Grammar of English was first published. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, especially where texts, example sentences, exercises, and cartoons are concerned. It continues to provide a very lively and clearly written… read more

[Not in series, 153] 2010. xxi, 232 pp.

Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence

Edited by Raymond Hickey

This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G41] 2010. x, 378 pp.

Irregularities in Modern English: Second edition revised by Erik Hansen

Hans Frede Nielsen † and Erik W. Hansen

This book, which appeared first in a Danish version in 1980 and subsequently in an English translation in 1986, reverses the history of the English language: it takes present-day English ‘irregularities’ in grammar and spelling as its point of departure, providing historical explanations only to… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 2] 2007. xii, 382 pp.

Norse-derived Vocabulary in late Old English Texts: Wulfstan's works, a case story

Sara M. Pons-Sanz

This book focuses on the Norse-derived vocabulary in the works of Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d. 1023). A considerable advantage derives from studying Wulfstan's compositions because, unlike most Old English texts, they are closely dateable and, to a certain extent, localizable. Thus, they… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 22] 2007. xviii, 318 pp.

A History of the English Language

Elly van Gelderen

THIS INFORMATION REFERS TO AN OLD EDITION. This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional morphological descriptions of the various stages of… read more

[Not in series, 135] 2006. xviii, 334 pp.

From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776

Hans Frede Nielsen †

From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776 is the second volume of a set of three offering a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 21] 2005. xx, 300 pp.

The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154

Hans Frede Nielsen †

In conjunction with two other volumes, which are scheduled to appear later, The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154 aims at giving a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 19] 1998. xiv, 234 pp.

English Prepositions Explained

Seth Lindstromberg

English Prepositions Explained has been written both for non-native and native speakers of English and is intended for: teachers of English; translators; materials writers; advanced students of English; frequent users of English generally.English Prepositions Explained furnishes information about… read more

[Not in series, 88] 1998. xii, 309 pp.

Old English Legal Language: The lexical field of theft

Jürg R. Schwyter

This corpus-based study examines the lexical field of theft in the Anglo-Saxon law-codes and documents containing reports of lawsuits (charters, writs, and some chapters of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). The individual Old English lexemes are analysed not only in terms of their meaning, collocation… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 15] 1996. iv, 197 pp.

Prepositions in Old and Middle English: A study of prepositional syntax and the semantics of At, In and On in some Old and Middle English texts

Tom Lundskær-Nielsen

The present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores changes in clausal word order. Furthermore, it provides a… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 9] 1993. x, 206 pp.