Recently added articles from Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies:
The historical sociolinguistics of elite accent change: on why RP is not disappearing.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Trudgill, Peter ... ABSTRACT There is a perception common in the UK today, especially amongst journalists, that the RP accent is disappearing: for example, Public School pupils and younger members of the Royal Family are now often said to be speaking Cockney instead of RP. This claim is totally ...
Why does ga- not appear in the Gothic past participle?(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Niwa, Yoshinobu ... ABSTRACT Why does ga- not appear in the Gothic past participle while ge- does in Old English and German? The study on the Cumulative tendency (CT) which Niwa has made for a long time is found to solve this problem. CT is a universal tendency to strengthen a weakened linguistic ...
The etymology of modern English monkey.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Dietz, Klaus ... ABSTRACT Modern English monkey does not represent a Romance loan-word of Arabian origin and transmitted by Middle Low German but is a vernacular diminutive derived from monk. ********** The origin of the Mode word monkey, recorded since 1530 in John ...
Names, derivational morphology, and Old English gender.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Colman, Fran ... ABSTRACT The paper argues that names constitute a primary linguistic category: they do not constitute a subclass of nouns. What have been regarded as formal devices for signalling "name-hood", "properness", and so on, are part of a language's derivational morphology. In this ...
The unfinished cline of grammaticalisation? Reflections on the uses of OE under and its derivatives.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Nagucka, Ruta ... ABSTRACT A lexical category under functioned in Old English as a preposition, an adverb or a member of a compound. This raises the questions: of whether and, if so, to what extent did these different uses undergo a process of grammaticalisation? On the basis of the observations ...
Periphrastic renderings and their element order in Old English versions of the gospels.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Ogura, Michico ... ABSTRACT Interlinear glosses are expected to show one-to-one correspondence of Anglo-Saxon renderings to the Latin original, while free translation is allowed to use words, phrases and clauses of ordinary usage, even though Latin can affect Old English in the choice of words, ...
Karl Luick's Historische Grammatik and medieval English consonant changes.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Welna, Jerzy ... ABSTRACT The fragments of Karl Luick's Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache published during his lifetime which contained an account of the development of English vowels and diphthongs have long served as a theoretical source successfully exploited by a host of ...
Disintegration of the nominal inflection in Anglian: the case of i-stems.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Adamczyk, Elzbieta ... ABSTRACT An evident tendency which can be observed in the behaviour of the Old English nouns belonging originally to the i-stem type is that they reveal a marked fluctuation between the inherited and the innovative (productive) paradigm, manifested in their adopting the ...
Contact with Scandinavian and late Middle English negative concord.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; Ingham, Richard ... ABSTRACT Early Modern English saw negative concord disappear from the mainstream textual record (Nevalainen 1998; Kallel 2005), which may embody natural language change rather than prescriptivist pressure (Mazzon 1994). This study examines whether there is evidence that the ...
What makes a syntactic change stop? On the decline of periphrastic do in early modern English affirmative declarative sentences.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Wischer, Ilse ... ABSTRACT In Early Modern English, from about 1500 onwards, the periphrastic do-construction developed in all types of sentences, including affirmative declarative sentences. However, in the latter this development came to a halt and the number of such constructions continually ...
English family names.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Viereck, Wolfgang ... ABSTRACT The English of the British Isles has already been put on the map in a number of national and regional atlases. In contrast, atlases of English family names are rather few in number and there are only a very limited number of distributional maps, often without any ...
Twice and constituency.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Dixon, R.M.W. ... ABSTRACT It is not the case that two times may always be substituted by twice (and three times by thrice). This may be done when time has a frequency or quantity sense, not when it refers to temporal location. And, although both frequency and quantity senses of time may be used ...
Finiteness, subjunctives, and negation in English.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Anderson, John M. ... ABSTRACT This paper pursues the analysis of finiteness and subjunctives in English proposed in Anderson (2001b), in the context of the approach to finiteness adopted in Anderson (1997, 2001a, 2006b, 2007). Thus it defends the position that the Present-day English subjunctive is ...
Natural Syntax: English reported speech.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Oresnik, Janez ... ABSTRACT Natural Syntax is a developing deductive theory, a branch of Naturalness Theory. The naturalness judgements are couched in naturalness scales, which proceed from the basic parameters (or "axioms") listed at the beginning of this paper. The predictions of the theory are ...
Chinese loanwords in the OED.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; De La Cruz-Cabanillas, Isabel ... ABSTRACT It was traditionally assumed that Chinese had contributed few borrowings into English until Cannon (1987, 1988, 1990) carried out his research based on different English desk-dictionaries. His studies were supplemented by Moody (1996) who reviewed Cannon's list focusing ...
General attitudinal meanings in RP intonation.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Hlebec, Boris ... ABSTRACT The article takes a cognitive view of the attitudinal meanings of RP intonation. A summary statement is included about previous authors' views on attitudes conveyed by pitch direction. Data on intonation patterns concentrating on pitch level are followed by the labels ...
On the correlation between A-type scrambling and lack of weak crossover effects.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Witkos, Jacek ... ABSTRACT This paper explores certain properties of word orders in Polish clauses with monotransitive verbs where the object is moved to the clause initial position across the subject. We briefly present two current accounts of such word orders in Russian (Baylin 2003 and ...
Shipping news.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Fries, Udo ... ABSTRACT Reports on the movement of shipping vessels in and out of English harbours have appeared as newsworthy items among English news reports from the very beginning of English newspaper publication. The earliest examples in the ZEN Corpus, which was used for this study, date ...
Prepositional entries in English-Polish dictionaries.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Adamska-Salaciak, Arleta ... ABSTRACT The present paper examines the microstructure of entries devoted to prepositions in bilingual English-Polish dictionaries. Given the problems inherent in the lexicographic treatment of function words, it seems worthwhile to ask: * what are the strategies ...
Evaluative meaning and its cultural significance.(LINGUISTICS)
Jan 01, 2008; Drazdauskiene, Marija Liudvika ... ABSTRACT In the framework of traditional descriptive semantics, evaluative meaning is defined as an aspect of affective meaning. By virtue of its general positive and negative evaluation, evaluative meaning finds its place in the compartment of interpersonal meaning in ...
