ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2010 CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE – Series IV General Editor E.F.K. KOERNER Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin
[email protected] Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT) is a theory-oriented series which welcomes contributions from scholars who have significant proposals to make towards the advancement of our understanding of language, its structure, functioning and development. CILT has been established in order to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of linguistic opinions of scholars who do not necessarily accept the prevailing mode of thought in linguistic science. It offers an outlet for meaningful contributions to the current linguistic debate, and furnishes the diversity of opinion which a healthy discipline must have. A complete list of titles in this series can be found on http://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt Advisory Editorial Board Sheila Embleton (Toronto) Elly van Gelderen (Tempe, Ariz.) John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin) Martin Maiden (Oxford) Martha Ratliff (Detroit, Mich.) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.) Joseph C. Salmons (Madison, Wis.) Klaas Willems (Ghent) Volume 325 Irén Hegedűs and Alexandra Fodor (eds.) English Historical Linguistics 2010. Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23–27 August 2010 ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2010 SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS (ICEHL 16), PÉCS, 23–27 AUGUST 2010 Edited by IRÉN HEGEDŰS University of Pécs ALEXANDRA FODOR Eötvös Loránd University / University of Helsinki JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (16th : 2010 : University of Pécs) English historical linguistics 2010 : selected papers from the sixteenth International Conference on English Historic