Explorations in the English language [Texte imprimé] : Middle Ages and beyond : Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Welna on the occasion of his 70th birthday / edited by Joanna Esquibel and Anna Wojtys

Includes bibliography of Jerzy Welna

Notes bibliogr.

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

This publication was financially supported by the Institute of English Studies, University of warsaw