Historical Linguistics and Philology

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Preface List of participants Paragraph 16 of Audacht Morainn: linguistic theory and philological evidence The missing link: the role of the lexicon Text as social indicator: the letters of Julia Miles Barnes The development of discourse markers in English Localizing William of Palerne Philological studies and Mayan languages Philology in America: Nahuatl Towards a dialectology of spoken Old French: the analysis of rhymes The phonological status of long consonants in the Vernon manuscript of the Ancrene Riwle Linguistic searchlights and philological buckets: a case study of their interdependence (the conceptual field of persuade/convince) Syntactic and pragmatic principles as arguments in the interpretation of runic inscriptions The relationship between punctuation and syntax in Middle Dutch Unhistorical features in Massachusett orthography The orthographic aspect of the runes The object of philology and the object of linguistics The occurrence of glosses in three Late Middle English texts: lexical variation On scribal errors: from the Old Saxon evidence The last Vercelli homily: a sentence-analytical edition Linguistics and philology: parametric changes and Romance possessives On the happy reunion of English philology and historical linguistics The importance of fine points in spelling: deletion of accented vowels in Tocharian B Index of authors Index of languages