Görlach, Manfred
Studies in the History of the English Language

Der Band versammelt Görlachs neun wichtigste Aufsätze zur englischen Sprachgeschichte aus der Zeit von 1978 bis 1988. Manfred Görlach im Vorwort: "For all the topics represented here, there is a unifying principle underlying the papers, namely my belief that historical liguistics must never lose sight of the texts, and must always be aware of the limitations that restricted corpora and the absence of native speakers impose on the investigator". - Aus dem Inhalt: 1. The development of Standard Englishes [1988]. - 2. Middle English, a creole? [1986]. - 3. Chaucer's English: What remains to be done [1978]. - 4. Renaissance English [1984]. - 5. The study of Early Modem English variation. The Cinderella of English historical linguistics? [1988]. - 6. Lexical loss and lexical survival: The case of Scots and English [1987]. - 7. Scots and Low German: The social history of two minority languages [1985]. - 8. Corpus problems of text collections: Linguistic aspects of the canon [1988]. - 9. Diachronic translation, or: Old and Middle English revisited [1986]. 225 Seiten mit 20 Abb. und 9 Tab., Leinen (Anglistische Forschungen; Heft 210/Universitätsverlag Winter 1990) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear