Kay Christian et al (Editors). New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission

John Benjamins, 2004. — xii, 271 pages. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 252). — ISBN: 90-272-4764-1.The papers collected in this volume are a selection of those given at ICEHL12, which was held at Glasgow University in August 2002. They are concerned, very broadly, with the historical lexicology and transmission of English.Chancery Standard
Cant and slang dictionaries: A statistical approach
DOST: A significant instance of historical lexicography
Image schemata and light: A study in diachronic lexical domains in English
Loanword etymologies in the third edition of the OED: Some questions of classification
“Non olet”: Euphemisms we live by
Intrusive [h] in present-day English accents and·{h}-insertion in medieval manuscripts: Hypercorrection or functionally-motivated language use?
Mergers, near-mergers and phonological interpretation
New light on the verb “understand”
Homophones and the stabilization of orthography in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century English
Kailyard, conservatism and Scots in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland
A sociolinguistic approach to the Norse-derived words in the glosses to the Lindisfarne and Rushworth Gospels
Haplology in English adverb-formation
Uses of Scottish place-names as evidence in historical dictionaries
On the stressing of French loanwords in English
Likelikelove: Comparing two modern English words diachronically
Spirantisation and despirantisation