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Linguistics Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries
Linguistics Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries
Linguistics Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries
Volume 1
Linguistic Theory
and Historical Linguistics
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Werner A B R A H A M , Groningen Grace S. B U R K A R T , Washington
Pfemysl A D A M E C , Praha Theodora B Y N O N , London
Arleta A D A M S K A - S A L A C I A K , Poznan
Anders AHLQVIST, Galway and Hel- Lyle C A M P B E L L , Albany
singfors Broder CARSTENSEN, Paderborn
Karin AIJMER, Lund Jifi C E R N Y , Olomouc
Olga A K H M A N O V A , Moskva Anna C H A R E Z I N S K A , Lublin
Federico A L B A N O LEONI, Napoli Dumitru C H I J O R A N , Bucharest
Sândor A L B E R T , Szeged Donna CHRISTIAN, Washington
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Mohammad A N A N I , Amman Bernard COMRIE, LOS Angeles
John ANDERSON, Edinburgh C.J. CONRADIE, Johannesburg
Stephen R. ANDERSON, LOS Angeles Alexandra CORNILESCU, Bucharest
József A N D O R , Pecs André CRÉPIN, Amiens
Raimo A N T T I L A , LOS Angeles Jan C Y G A N , Wroclaw
Janusz A R A B S K I , Brzozowa
Kristjân A R N A S O N , Reykjavik Saskia D A A L D E R , Amsterdam
Robert AUSTERLITZ, New York Jo D A A N , Barchem
Johan VAN DER A U W E R A , Wilrijk Andrei D A N C H E V , Sofia
Andrei A V R A M , Bucharest Barbara D A N C Y G I E R , Warszawa
Wieslaw A W E D Y K , Poznan Frantisek D A N E S , Praha
Niels DAVIDSEN-NIELSEN, Copenhagen
Wolf Dietrich B A L D , Aachen Xavier DEKEYSER, Antwerp
Alfred BAMMESBERGER, Eichstätt Laszló DEZSÖ, Debrecen
Jerzy BANCZEROWSKI, Poznan Bernhard DIENSBERG, Bonn
Naomi S. B A R O N , Georgetown Klaus DIETZ, Berlin
Istvân S. BÂTORI, Bonn H.J. D I L L E R , Bochum
Gero BAUER, Wien René D I R V E N , Duisburg
K.-Richard B A U S C H , Bochum Dorothy DISTHRHHFT, Columbia
Robert BEARD, Lewisburg Käthi D O R F M Ü L L E R - K A R P U S A , Bielefeld
J. V. B E C K A , Praha Wolfgang U . DRESSLER, Wien
Johannes BECHERT, Bremen Lubomir D R O Z D , Praha
Roger BERRY, Poznan Krystyna D R O Z D Z I A L , Poznan
Tej K . BHATIA, Syracuse Anna D U S Z A K , Warszawa
Henrik BIRNBAUM, Los Angeles Katarzyna D Z I U B A L S K A - K O I . A C Z Y K ,
Hans Ulrich BOAS, Göttingen Poznan
Krzysztof BOGACKI, Warszawa
Robert D. BORSLEY, Dublin Stig ELIASSON, Uppsala
Georges BOURCIER, Sevres Rudolf EMONS, Passau
Nelu BRADEAN-EBINGER, Budapest Nils Erik ENKVIST, Âbo
Leiv Egil BREIVIK, Tromsö Peter E R D M A N N , Saarbrücken
Reinhard BREYMAYER, Reutlingen Kennosuke E Z A W A , Tübingen
Sverker BRORSTRÖM, Stockholm
Wolfram BUBLITZ, Trier Kâroly FÂBRICZ, Szeged
Laszló B Ü K Y , Szentendre Rudolf F i L i P O V i c , Zagreb
Ranko BUGARSKI, Belgrade Alwin F I L L , Graz
Edward I. B U R K A R T , Washington Jan FIRBAS, Brno
Suzanne FLEISCHMAN, Berkeley Maria ILIESCU, Innsbruck
Vilém F R I E D , Duisburg Gregory K . IVERSON, Iowa City
Udo FRIES, Küsnacht Vladimir IVIR, Zagreb
Géza F ü s s i N A G Y , Budapest Haruo IWASAKI, Tokyo
Hiroshi F u j i W A R A , Saitama
Wolf-Peter F U N K , Berlin Howard JACKSON, Birmingham
Ernst Hâkon JAHR, Tromsö
Dirk GEERAERTS, Leuven Gerhard JAKOB, Mannheim
Marinel GERRITSEN, Amsterdam Karol JANICKI, Poznan
Anna G I A C A L O N E R A M A T , Pavia Robert J. JEFFERS, New Brunswick
Dafydd G I B B O N , Bielefeld Herbert JELITTE, Gießen
Rosemarie GLÄSER, Leipzig Jifi JIRACEK, Brno
Helmut GNEUSS, München Theodore C. JOHNSON, Poznan
Ives G O D D A R D , Washington Hermann JUNGRAITHMAYR, Frankfurt
Manfred G Ö R L A C H , Köln
L. GOSSENS, Wilrijk-Antwerpen Leoh K A C Z M A R E K , Lublin
Oliver G R A N N I S , Osnabrück Piotr K A K I E T E K , Sosnowiec
Willem A . GROOTAERS, Tokyo Roman K A L I S Z , Sopot
Monika G R U C H M A N , Poznan Irena K A L U Z A , Krakow
Franciszek G R U C Z A , Warszawa Stanislav K A R O L A K , Krakow
Edmund G U S S M A N N , Lublin Dieter KASTOVSKY, Wien
Sven R. GUSTAVSSON, Taby Stanislav K A V K A , Ostrava
Jadranka G V O Z D A N O V I C , Amsterdam Anna K A Z N O W S K A , Warszawa
Andrzej K A Z N O W S K I , Warszawa
William H A A S , Manchester Suzanne E. K E M M E R , Stanford
Péter H A J D Û , Budapest Istvân KENESI, Szeged
John H A J E K , Melbourne Bernhard K E T T E M A N N , Graz
Camiel H A M A N S , Amsterdam Marianne K I L A N I - S C H O C H , Lausanne
Göran HAMMARSTRÖM, Clayton Dale K i N K A D E , Vancouver
Eric P. H A M P , Chicago Kenji KITAO, Kyoto
Alice C. HARRIS, Nashville Göran K J E L L M E R , Göteborg
Martin B. HARRIS, Salford Grzegorz K L E P A R S K I , Lublin
Matthias H A R T I G , Paderborn Veronika KNIEZSA, Budapest
R. R. K . H A R T M A N N , Exeter Johann K N O B L O C H , Bonn
Klaus HEGER, Heidelberg Judith M . K N O T T , London
Pal H E L T A I , Gödöllö Konrad KOERNER, Hull, Québec
Robert K . HERBERT, Binghamton Werner K O L L E R , Bergen
Ernest W. B. HESS-LÜTTICH, Berlin Roman K O P Y T K O , Poznan
Raymond H I C K E Y , Bonn Valeria M . KORCHMÂROS, Szeged
Hans Henrich H O C K , Urbana Béla K o R P O N A Y , Debrecen
Henry M . HOENIGSWALD, Philadelphia Frederik K O R T L A N D T , Leiden
Günter HOLTUS, Mainz Ferenc KovÂcs, Budapest
George H O R N , Newcastle, N.S.W. Bogdan K R A K O W I A N , Lodz
Karl H U B M A Y E R , Salzburg Jifi K R Â M S K Y , Praha
Werner H Ü L L E N , Essen William A . KRETZSCHMAR, Whitewater
Gillis KRISTENSSON, Stockholm
Ossi IHALAINEN, Helsinki Barbara K R Y K , Poznan
Yoshihiko IKEGAMI, Tokyo Tomasz P. KRZESZOWSKI, Gdansk-Oliwa
Stephen S. K R Z Y S Z T O N , Poznan Weriand M E R L I N G E N , Wien
Wanda K U B I C K A - P R Z Y W A R S K A , Poznan Donka M I N K O V A , L O S Angeles
Wolfgang K Ü H L W E I N , Trier Ewa MIODUSZEWSKA, Warszawa
Merja K Y T Ö , Helsinki Marianne M I T H U N , Santa Barbara
Li lo MOESSNER, Frei bürg
György L A K Ó , Budapest Michael M O N T G O M E R Y , Columbia
Ronald LANDHEER, Leiden Norbert MORCINIEC, Wroclaw
Roman LASKOWSKI, Krakow Juan Carlos M O R E N O C A B R E R A , Madrid
Roger LASS, Rondebosch Anatolij M . M U K H I N , Leningrad
William R. LEE, Hounslow
Harry LEEMING, London Daisuke N A G A S H I M A , Osaka
Dorothea L E H M A N N , Paderborn Ruta N A G U C K A , Krakow
Winfred P. L E H M A N N , Austin Toshio N A K A O , Tokyo
Adrienne LEHRER, Tucson Dietrich N E H L S , Stuttgart
Jaako LEHTONEN, Jyväskylä Peter H . N E L D E , Brussels
Gerhard LEITNER, Berlin Paul N E U B A U E R , Gaston
Iwona L E S K A - K R Z Y S Z T O N , Poznan Gerhard N I C K E L , Stuttgart
Barbara L E W A N D O W S K A - T O M A S Z C Z Y K , Adrian NICOLESCU, Bucha rest
Lodz Hans F. NIELSEN, Odense
Hans-Heinrich LIEB, Berlin Winfried N Ö T H , Kassel
Marie-Louise LIEBE-HARKORT, Berlin Jifi NOSEK, Ricany u Prahy
Leonhard L I P K A , München Barbara N Y K I E L - H E R B E R T , Binghamton
H . J . LÜBBE, Bloemfontein Martti N Y M A N , Helsinki
Georges LÜDI, Basel
Angelika L U T Z , München Karl O D W A R K A , Cedar Falls
John LYONS, Cambridge Sölve O H L A N D E R , Göteborg
Robert R. VAN OIRSOUW, Utrecht
Jaroslav M A C H Â C E K , Olomouc Eis O K S A A R , Hamburg
Haiina M A C K I E W I C Z - K R A S S O W S K A , Wiestaw O L E K S Y , Lodz
Gdansk Yngve B. OLSSON, London
Mortéza M A H M O U D I A N , Lausanne Teresa O L S Z E W S K A , Lublin
Witold M A N C Z A K , Krakow Jana ONDRÂCKOVÂ, Praha
Elzbieta M A N C Z A K - W O H L F E L D , Krakow Shigeru O N O , Tokyo
Jan M A J E R , Lodz Ursula O O M E N , Trier
Alfred F. M A J E W I C Z , Poznan Janina O Z G A , Krakow
Angela MARCANTONIO, Roma
Francisco M A R C O S - M A R Ì N , Madrid Christer P ä H L S S O N , Hclsingfors
Thomas L. M A R K E Y , Ann Arbor Sophia P A P A E F T H Y M I O U - L Y T R A ,
Manfred M A R K U S , Innsbruck Agia Paraskevi
Peter M A R T E N S , Hamburg John H . PATTISON, Paris
Leocadio M A R T I N , Granada Bert PEETERS, Aarschot
André MARTINET, Sceaux Herbert P E N Z L , Berkeley
Hanne MARTINET, Copenhagen W. Keith PERCIVAL, Lawrence
Waldemar M A R T O N , Poznan Mihâly PÉTER, Budapest
Hanna M A U S C H , Poznan Herbert P I L C H , Freiburg
Marco M A Z Z O L E N I , Pavia Alicja PISARSKA, Poznan
Péter M E D G Y E S , Budapest Andrzej PISARSKI, Poznan
Jürgen M . MEISEL, Hamburg Jacek PLECINSKI, Poznan
Barbara PLOCINSKA, Poznan Roland D . SUSSEX, Melbourne
Kazimierz POLANSKI, Katowice Seiichi S U Z U K I , Austin
Micha! POST, Wroclaw Jan SVARTVIK, Lund
Patricia POUSSA, Helsinki Pierre SWIGGERS, Leuven
Dennis PRESTON, A n n Arbor Marian SZCZODROWSKI, Szczecin
Ernst P U L G R A M , A n n Arbor Aleksander SZWEDEK, Torun
Stanislaw PUPPEL, Poznan
Elzbieta T A B A K O W S K A , Krakow
Paolo R A M A T , Pavia Yuri A . TAMBOVTSEV, Novosibirsk
Pieter V A N REENEN, Amsterdam Yoshio TERASAWA, Tokyo
Richard RHODES, Ann Arbor Sarah G . THOMASON, Pittsburgh
Helmut RICHTER, Berlin James P. THORNE, Edinburgh
Elizabeth RIDDLE, Gaston Torben THRANE, Copenhagen
Eeva RISSANEN, Helsinki Jerzy T O M A S Z C Z Y K , Lodz
Matti RISSANEN, Helsinki Olga Miseska TOMIC, Skopje
William C . RITCHIE, Syracuse Livia TONELLI, Padova
Robert Henry ROBINS, London Elizabeth Closs TRAUGOTT, Stanford
Suzanne ROMAINE, Oxford Danuta T R A W C Z Y N S K A , Poznan
Andras R Ó N A - T A S , Budapest Klaus TROST, Regensburg
Elke R O N N E B E R G E R - S I B O L D , Peter T R U D G I L L , Reading
Freiburg i. Br.
Jerzy R U B A C H , Warszawa Masamoto U K A J I , Tokyo
Jan RUSIECKI, Warszawa
Piotr RUSZKIEWICZ, Opole Josef V A C H E K , Praha
Mats R Y D É N , Uppsala Paul VALENTIN, Paris
Antonin VA§EK, Brno
Kari SAJAVAARA, Jyväskylä Emanuel VASILIU, Bucharest
Karl Inge SANDRED, Uppsala Laszló V A R G A , Budapest
Hans SAUER, München Theo V E N N E M A N N , München
Mohammed SAWAIE, Charlottesville Torben VESTERGAARD, Aalborg
Manfred SCHELER, Berlin Wolfgang VIERECK, Bamberg
William R. SCHMALSTIEG, University Heinz W. VIETHEN, Köln
Park Emma VORLAT, Korbeek-Lo
K a r l Horst SCHMIDT, Bonn Manfred Voss, Bonn
W. W. SCHUMACHER, Roskilde Petar V U C K O V I C , Belgrade
Michael SHARWOOD SMITH, Utrecht
Carmen S I L V A - C O R V A L Â N , Culver City Kurt WÄCHTLER, Berlin
Gunver SKYTTE, Vedbaek Martyn F. W A K E L I N , Egham
Kon rad SPRENGEL, Bielefeld Richard J. WATTS, Bern
Harro STAMMERJOHANN, Frankfurt Alicja A . WEGNER, Poznan
W'itold STEFANSKI, Poznan Richard M . WEIST, Fredonia
Hiugo STEGER, Stegen Jerzy W E L N A , Warszawa
Diieter STEIN, Gießen Werner WELTE, Hamburg
Gabriele STEIN, Hamburg Harald W E Y D T , Berlin
Amna-Brit STENSTRÖM, Lund Wilfried WIEDEN, Salzburg
R(obert P. S T O C K W E L L , LOS Angeles Götz WIENOLD, Kreuzungen
Vllasta STRAKOVÂ, Ricany u Prahy Peter WIESINGER, Wien
Jüirgen STRAUSS, Trier W. WILSS, Saarbrücken
Werner WINTER, Kiel Tadeusz Z A B R O C K I , Poznan
Margaret WINTERS, Carbondale Waldemar Z A R S K I , Wroclaw
Henri WITTMANN, Trois-Rivières Rudolf ZIMEK, Olomouc
Wolfgang Ullrich W U R Z E L ,
Berlin ( G D R )
Curriculum Vitae
1961
1 'Emendacje polskiego przekladu tekstów staroangielskich w zbiorze A . Bielow-
skiego Monumenta Poloniae Historica', Sprawozdania Komisji Jezykowej LTN 8:
79-89.
2 An Early Middle English reader (Lódz: Uniwersytet Lódzki).
3 'Depluralizacja niektórych rzeczowników zapozyczonych z jçzyka angielskiego',
Jezyk Polski4\: 138-139.
4 Review of Tauno Mustanoja, A Middle English syntax, in: Kwartalnik Neofilolog-
iczny 8: 451-454.
1962
5 'Kategoria rodzaju rzeczowników zapozyczonych z jçzyka angielskiego', Spra-
wozdania Komisji Jezykowej LTN 9: 63 — 68.
6 'Zlozony kontakt jçzykowy w procesie zapozyczania z jçzyka angielskiego do
polskiego', Jezyk Polski 42: 286-294.
7 Review of R. W. V. Elliot, Runes, in: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 9: 203-205.
1963
8 'Zagadka staroangielska', Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich 6: 159—160.
9 Review of C. Lindberg, MS Bodley 959, in: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 10:
170-178.
1964
10 Outlines of Middle English (Lódz: Uniwersytet Lódzki).
11 'English sports terms in Modern Polish', English Studies 45: 230 — 236.
12 Review of Morton W. Bloomfield — Leonard Newmark, A linguistic introduction
to the history of English, in: International Journal of American Linguistics 30:
305-309.
1965
13 Morphemic structure of Chaucer's English (University of Alabama: University of
Alabama Press).
14 Review of H . A . Gleason, An introduction to descriptive linguistics, in: Kwartalnik
Neofdologiczny 12: 200-203.
15 Review of G . L . Brook, English Dialects, in: Linguistics 17: 89 — 91.
16 Review of Brno Studies in English, in: Linguistics 19: 123 — 128.
1966
17 Review of A . Shannon, A descriptive syntax of the Parker manuscript of the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle from 734 — 891, in: Lingua Posnaniensis 11: 156 — 158.
18 Review of Thomas Pyles, The origins and development of the English language,
in: Linguistics 21: 120-126.
19 Review of Gerhard Graband, Die Entwicklung der frühneuenglischen Nominal-
flexion, in: Kwartalnik Neofdologiczny 13: 235 — 238.
1967
20 T h e Old English wr- and wl-', Linguistics 32: 12 — 14.
21 'Phonemics of English loanwords in Polish', Biuletyn Fonograficzny 9: 69 — 79.
22 Review of Harold E. Palmer, The principles of language study, in: Foundations of
Language'S: 116 — 117.
X List of publications
1968
23 A short grammar of Middle English (Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Nau-
kowe).
24 'Prevocalic consonant clusters in the history of English', Studia Anglica Posnan-
iensia 1: 3 — 14.
25 Review of Josef Vachek, Prague School reader in linguistics, in: Foundations of
Language 4: 203 — 207.
26 Review of Henrik Birnbaum and Jan Puhvel, Ancient Indo-European dialects, in:
Lingua Posnaniensis 12: 207 — 209.
1969
27 An Early Middle English reader (2nd ed.) (Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo
Naukowe).
28 T h e semantics of English loanwords in Polish', Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 2:
41-40.
29 Review of Randolph Quirk and Alan H . Smith, The teaching of English, in:
Foundations of Language 4: 149 — 150.
30 Review of E. Klein, Comprehensive etymological dictionary of the English lan-
guage, in: Kwartalnik Neofdologiczny 16: 322 — 323.
31 Review of Gerhard Nickel, Die expanded form im Altenglischen, in: Studia
Anglica Posnaniensia 2: 109 — 110.
1970
32 A short grammar of Middle English (2nd ed.) (London —Warsaw: Oxford Univer-
sity Press — Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe).
33 Transformacyjna skladnia historyczna jçzyka angielskiego', Biuletyn Polskiego
Towarzystwa Jezykoznawczego 28: 104—113.
1971
34 T h e Poznan Polish-English contrastive project', in: Zagreb conference on English
contrastive projects, ed. by R. Filipovic (Zagreb: Institute of Linguistics), 87 —96.
1972
35 Wklad Polski do jezykoznawstwa swiatowego, Seria Wyklady Inauguracyjne (Poz-
nan: U A M ) .
36 An Early Middle English reader (3rd ed.) (Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo
Naukowe).
1973
37 T h e Polish-English contrastive project', Papers and Studies in Contrastive Lin-
guistics 1: 7 — 13.
1975
38 Wstep do wspólczesnych teorii lingwistycznych ('Introduction to modern linguistic
theories') (Warszawa: WSiP).
39 T h e contrastive analysis of phonological systems', Kwartalnik Neofdologiczny
22: 315-328.
1976
41 A short grammar of Middle English (3rd ed.) (Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydaw-
nictwo Naukowe).
42 'Generative phonology and contrastive studies', Canadian Journal of Linguistics
21: 171-179.
List of publications XI
1977
46 A short grammar of Middle English (4th ed.) (Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawn-
ictwo Naukowe).
47 (ed.) Bibliography of writings on English language and literature in Poland
1945—1975 (Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe).
48 'Sociolinguistics and Middle English: Some socially motivated changes in the
history of English', Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 24: 277 — 289.
1978
49 (ed.) Recent developments in historical phonology (The Hague: Mouton).
50 (with Maria Lipihska-Grzegorek and Tadeusz Zabrocki) An introductory English-
Polish contrastive grammar (Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe).
51 Wstep do wspólczesnych teorii lingwistycznych ('Introduction to modern linguistic
theories') (2nd revised and enlarged ed.) (Warszawa: WSiP).
52 *Wklad Profesora L . Zabrockiego do jçzykoznawstwa kontrastywnego' ('Prof.
L . Zabrocki's contribution to contrastive linguistics'), Sprawozdania Komisji
Jezykowej PTPN: 2 8 - 3 1 .
53 T h e changing English and its teaching', Glottodidactica 12: 47 — 52.
54 'Analiza kontrastywna systemów fonologicznych' ('Contrastive analysis of phon-
ological systems'), in: Polska mysl glottodydaktyczna, ed. by F. Grucza (Warsz-
awa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe), 546 — 554, (revised version of 39).
55 Review of F. Häusler, 1976. Das Problem Phonetik bei Baudouin de Courtenay
und seiner Nachfolge, in: Historiographia Linguistica: 318 — 320.
1980.
56 (ed.) Theoretical issues in contrastive linguistics (Amsterdam: Benjamins).
57 (ed.) Historical morphology (The Hague: Mouton).
58 'Professor J. Kurylowicz jako neofilolog' ('Prof. J. Kurylowicz as a researcher
and teacher of modern languages'), ZNUJ (Prace Jezykoznawcze) 66: 89 — 94.
59 'Professor Kurylowicz's contribution to research and teaching in the area of
modern languages', in: Jerzy Kurylowicz 1895 — 1978. Materials from the Scientific
Session, Polish Academy of Sciences, Linguistics Committee (Wroclaw: Ossoli-
neum), 47 — 52.
60 'Was there a kl-, gl- > ti-, ^//-change in Early Modern English?', Lingua Posnan-
iensis 23: 8 7 - 9 0 .
61 'Some notes concerning contrastive linguistics', AILA Bulletin: 1 — 17.
62 'Kilka uwag o konfrontatywnej (kontrastywnej) analizie jczyków' ('Some re-
marks concerning contrastive analysis of languages'), BPTJ 38: 71 —79 (revised
version of 61).
1981
63 (ed.) Contrastive linguistics and the language teacher (Oxford: Pergamon Press).
64 Review of Carl James, 1980. Contrastive analysis, in: English Language Teaching
Journal 35: 473-475.
65 'English-Polish contrastive linguistics in Poland since 1974', in: Kontrastive Lin-
guistik und Übersetzungswissenschaft. Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums
Trier/Saarbrücken, 25.-30. IX. 1978, ed. by Wolfgang Kühlwein et al. (München:
Fink), 4 3 - 5 2 .
XII List of publications
1982
66 ' M E -ong > -ung revisited', Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 14: 17 — 27.
67 'English-Polish contrastive linguistics in Poland: a brief survey', Nordlyd. Tromso
University Working Papers on Language and Linguistics 6: 37 — 68.
68 'Isophones or isographs: a problem in historical dialectology', in: Language
form and linguistic variation. Papers dedicated to Angus Mcintosh, ed. by John
Anderson (Amsterdam: Benjamins), 117 — 128.
1983
69 A bibliography of writings for the history of the English language (Poznan: U A M ) .
70 English studies in Poland: a historical survey (Poznan: U A M ) (revised version of
71).
71 'English studies in Poland: A historical survey', in: Towards a history of English
studies in Europe, ed. by Thomas Finkenstaedt (Augsburg: Augsburg University),
125-173.
72 'English dialects in the fifteenth century: some observations concerning the shift
of isoglosses', Folia Linguistica Historica IV: 195 — 217.
73 'The teaching of English in English departments in Poland', Papers from the
First Conference on the Problems of Teaching English Language and Literature
at Arab Universities (Amman: University of Jordan), 137 — 144.
74 'Some problems in historical dialectology', Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 16: 5—14
(revised version of 68).
75 'English-Polish contrastive linguistics in Poland', Supostavitelno ezikoznanie
(Contrastive Linguistics) N o . 3, Sofia, 67 — 82 (revised version of 67).
76 'Recent trends in contrastive linguistics', Jyväskylä Cross-Language Studies 9:
9-38.
1984
11 (ed.) Contrastive linguistics: prospects and problems (Berlin: Mouton).
79 'On the roots of contrastive linguistics', Folia Linguistica 18: 139 — 153.
80 'Old and Middle English language studies in Poland', Mediaeval English Studies
Newsletter No. 11, Dec. 1984 (Tokyo), 1-22.
81 Review of P. Trudgill — J. Hannah, 1982. International English: A guide to
varieties of Standard English, in: English World Wide 5: 127 — 129.
1985
82 'The voicing of initial fricatives in Middle English', in: Focus on Britain and
Wales, ed. by Wolfgang Viereck (Amsterdam: Benjamins), 5 — 28.
83 'The voicing of initial fricatives in Middle English', Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
17: 3 — 16 (revised version of 82).
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Contents
Volume 1
Linguistic theory and historical linguistics
Editors' note V
Curriculum Vitae VII
List of publications IX
Parti
Theoretical linguistics
Part II
Historical linguistics
Metathesis 547
Toshio Nakao
A n analysis of the Old Saxon velar consonants in initial
position 557
Karl Odwarka
Undergytan as a 'Winchester' word 569
Shigeru Ono
The Germanic possessive type dem Vater sein Haus 579
Paolo Ramat
Middle English translations of Old English charters in the
Liber Monasterii de Hyda: a case of historical error analysis 591
Matti Rissanen
The effects of language standardization on deletion rules:
some comparative Germanic evidence from t/d-deletion.... 605
Suzanne Romaine
Degemination in Old English and the formal apparatus of
generative phonology 621
Jerzy Rubach
Old English Northumbrian verb inflection revisited 637
Dieter Stein
Syllable theory and Old English verse: a preliminary observa-
tion 651
Seiichi Suzuki
Hebrew loan words in English 659
Yoshio Terasawa
On delimiting the senses of near-synonyms in historical seman-
tics. A case-study of adjectives of 'moral sufficiency' in the
Old English Andreas 671
Torben Thrane
A n emotionally conditioned split of some personal names . . 693
Josef Vachek
Ruckümläut 701
Theo Vennemann
Dialectal speech areas in England: Orton's lexical evidence . 725
Wolfgang Viereck
XX Contents
Volume 2
Descriptive, contrastive and applied linguistics
Part III
Descriptive linguistics
Because 1063
James P. Thorne
Part IV
Contrastive and applied linguistics
Indexes 1501
Part I
Theoretical linguistics
Semantic features and prototype theory in
English lexicology*
Leonhard Lipka
1. Introduction
2. Semantic features
slug vs. Schnecke, ape j monkey vs. Affe, and eat vs. essen/fressen (cf.
Lipka 1981: 376 — 377). The usefulness of prototype theory is also
evident if we look at the category bird and the more peripheral
members ostrich and penguin. Very impressive work on the denota-
tional and prototypic structure of English container nouns, es-
pecially cup, mug, glass, and bowl, has been done in a series of
studies by Labov (cf. 1978). The denotata form continuous series
and are distinguished by both categorical properties (e. g. with or
without handle) and weighted ones (e. g. if X is present, cup is more
likely to be used). Category boundaries are not discrete and material
and context (e. g. filled with coffee or food) played a role in the
experiments. Labov (1978: 223 ff.) found that besides vagueness, the
interdependence of criterial conditions (e. g. shape, material, handle)
is a general property of denotational boundaries, a phenomenon
semantic feature theory does not permit. The prototypical cup has
a certain ratio of height to width, a certain shape, and a handle.
The prototypical bottle 'appears to be a glass object with a narrow
opening and a neck one-third the width of the bottle' (Labov 1978:
231). If we return to the example of apple, we may state that its
prototypical shape can be captured by a real or mental picture, but
not by a semantic feature [ + R O U N D ] . The simultaneous presence
of different colours is also no problem for prototype theory.
The discovery of focal points in the domain of colour by Berlin
and Kay represents a challenge to both the theory of linguistic
relativity and semantic features (cf. Rosch 1977: 5 — 6). Colours,
and the terms denoting them in different languages, together with
the absence of clear-cut boundaries between them, must be seen as
evidence for physiologically determined cognitive prototypes. They
are on the borderline between concrete objects and abstract cat-
egories.
them, 'the prototypical lie' — which they contrast with the 'social
lie', or white lie — is characterized by '(a) falsehood, which is (b)
deliberate and (c) intended to deceive' (1981: 28). It thus contains
three 'elements', which need not all be present in other, less than
'full-fledged lies'. Geeraerts applies prototype theory to diachronic
semantics and examines the development of vergrijpen from 1500
up to 1900. He does not give a prototypical definition of the
verb, but instead analyses various senses, their development, and
interrelation (cf. the diagram 1984: 14 f ) . For example the notion
'acting against someone's physical person* is replaced by '... so.'s
wishes J authority . Such a semantic shift and the resulting links could
clearly be captured also by a modified theory of semantic features.
Geeraerts (1984: 29) admits that an Aristotelian theory, if provided
with 'fuzzy sets of features' would be 'descriptively compatible with
these facts', but claims 'more explanatory value' for his approach.
However, the reasons he gives for this are to me not convincing.
4. An integrated view
Notes
* I should like to thank Eva Leitzke, Bernd Brömser, and Christopher Inman for
very helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.
1. Cf. the definitions in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English {LDCE):
1 'to go esp. from a lower to a higher position up, over, or through, esp. by
using the hands and feet', 2 'to go ... as a sport\ where the elements marked
by esp., and as a sport can be interpreted as inferential features (cf. 2.3.). The
semantic element 'upwards' in the verb-particle construction climb up is explicitly
contained in up (cf. Lipka 1972).
2. Cf. the distinction between 'centre' and 'periphery' as a language universal in
the Prague school of linguistics.
3. Both the arrows, e. g. in [<-PARENT] for son, and the numbers, e. g. in
2
< 2 P E N E T R A B L E > for to drink, have been adopted from Leech ( 1981) as
notational conventions. The former symbolize the direction of the relation, the
latter a scalar opposition, where 1, 2, 3 P E N E T R A B L E corresponds to 'solid',
'liquid', 'gas'. The angled brackets < > are used for transfer features (cf. Lipka
1979). The braces {}, for inferential features, are taken from Lehrer (1974:
84-85).
4. Cf. Osherson —Smith (1981: 63 fn. 3, 61), where the intensifier very is mentioned,
as well as 'intricate concepts' like belief, desire, justice and the meanings of
prepositions, sentence connectives, and 'a host of other ideas'.
5. But cf. Fillmore (1975: 128-129) for widow and bachelor.
Semantic features and prototype theory 93
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