Historical English Word-Formation and Semantics

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  • ISBN 9783631634158
  • Weight: 750g
  • Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Jan 2013
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG
  • Publication City/Country: CH
  • Product Form: Hardback
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This is a volume of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Historical English Word-Formation and Semantics held in Warsaw on 10-11 December 2011 and organized by the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the University of Social Sciences in Łódź. The conference was attended by scholars from Poland, USA, Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Japan, Italy, Ukraine and Slovakia. Their papers covered a wide range of topics concerning the area of word formation and semantics in Old and Middle English.
Jacek Fisiak is a retired professor and head of the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland), and currently head of the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the University of Social Sciences (Społeczna Akademia Nauk) in Łódź. He has published widely in the area of English linguistics including the history of English, Old and Middle English and historical dialectology on both sides of the Atlantic.
Magdalena Bator received her PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań in 2008. Currently she is a lecturer at the School of English at the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw. Her research interests focus on various aspects of English historical linguistics, in particular historical semantics.