Explorations in the English language Middle Ages and beyond : Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Welna on the occasion of his 70th birthday /

Explorations in the English language Middle Ages and beyond : Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Welna on the occasion of his 70th birthday / [Texte imprimé] : edited by Joanna Esquibel and Anna Wojtys - Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012 - 1 vol. (402 p.) : graph. ; 22 cm - Studies in English medieval language and literature ; 35 . - Studies in English medieval language and literature (Peter Lang) .

Includes bibliography of Jerzy Welna

Notes bibliogr.

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

978-3-631-63384-7

English language--History English language--Grammar, Historical English language--Semantics, Historical

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