Investigating West Germanic Languages

• Part I. Introduction
• Investigating West Germanic Languages
  Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page | pp. 2–11
• Part II. Linguistic structure and change
• Homorganic lengthening in late Old English revisited
  B. Richard Page | pp. 14–31
• Meter, syntax, and the use of punctuation in the Leipzig fragment of the Hêliand
  John D. Sundquist | pp. 32–50
• The semantics and grammatical status of -frei
  Sarah M. B. Fagan | pp. 51–68
• Een mooi paar mouwen: The etymology of Dutch mooi ‘beautiful’ and mouw ‘sleeve’
  Michiel de Vaan | pp. 69–78
• Part III. Migration, contact, and change
• Sound change, analogy, and urban koineization in the regularization of verbs in late fourteenth-century English
  David Fertig | pp. 80–106
• Vowel lowering, consonant cluster simplification, and koineization in the history of Pennsylvania Dutch
  Mark L. Louden | pp. 107–130
• Lexicalizing vernacular architecture in the Cape Dutch Vernacular
  Paul T. Roberge | pp. 131–162
• Part IV. Vernacular sources and change
• Weaving data strands together: Towards assembling Norwich’s historical urban vernacular
  Anita Auer and Moragh S. Gordon | pp. 164–187
• Investigating change from a perspective of continuity: Dutch two-verb clusters in sixteenth-century Antwerp
  Jennifer Hendriks | pp. 188–224
• Non-native communication in eighteenth-century maritime circles: Dutch letters written by economic migrants
  Marijke van der Wal | pp. 225–257
• Part V. Historical sociolinguistics: Past, present, and future
• The dialect of Vriezenveen: Where does it come from? Where is it going?
  Cor van Bree | pp. 260–275
• Exploring past and present layers of multilingualism in Flemish-emigrant writing
  Yasmin Crombez, Wim Vandenbussche and Rik Vosters | pp. 276–300
• An excursion into the lost history of historical sociolinguistics
  Mark Richard Lauersdorf and Joseph Salmons | pp. 301–324
• Index | pp. 325–327

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