More Than Words

The honouree, Professor Hans Sauer, has held the Munich chair for English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature since 1997. His career gives evidence of his strong commitment to academic life, and he has contributed abundantly to his research fields and supervised numerous theses.

• Contents: Philip Durkin: An Influential Voice in the Germanic Etymologies in the First Edition of the OED: Correspondence Between Early Editors and Eduard Sievers – Antonette diPaolo Healey: Taking hand in Hand: Mapping its Meaning in Old English and Later – Alfred Bammesberger: Two Textual Notes on the Old English Poem Christ I – Andrew James Johnston: Calques and Culture: Revisiting an Issue in Old English Lexical Morphology – Ulrike Krischke: A Glimpse at Anglo-Saxon Biosystematics: The Voice of the Plant Names – Peter Bierbaumer: Research into Old English Plant Names: 1969-2009 – Ferdinand von Mengden: Ablaut or Transfixation? On the Old English Strong Verbs – Eric G. Stanley: Runic Mysteries in Old and Middle English Verse and in Modern Scholarship – Gaby Waxenberger: The Cryptic Runes on the Auzon/Franks Casket: A Challenge for the Runologist and the Lexicographer – Mary Blockley: Speech Acts and Inscriptions: The Syntax of the Right Side of the Auzon/Franks Casket – Lucia Kornexl/Ursula Lenker: Culinary and Other Pairs: Lexical Borrowing and Conceptual Differentiation in Early English Food Terminology – Michiko Ogura: Hap, kappen and happy: Their Borrowing and Development through Rivalry – Rafał Molencki: The Evolution of forward in Medieval English – Oliver M. Traxel: The Katherine Group as a Source for the Reconstruction of Unattested Words from the Old English Period – Claire Fennell: Some Notes on the Vocabulary of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 520 – Karl Reichl: Rewth, milthe, merci: Lexical Choices in the Middle English Translations of the Psalms – Hans-Jörg Schmid: Tracing Paths of Conventionalization from the Bible to the BNC: A Concise Corpus-based History of the not that Construction – Inge B. Milfull: Some Notes on the Vocabulary of Hary’s Wallace – Manfred Markus: A Glass of Yale: J-Insertion in English Dialects (Based on Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary) – Stefan Thim: On the Phrasal Verbs in Some Paston Letters – Hedwig Gwosdek: The Category of the Adverb in English Grammatical Manuscripts and Early Printed Grammars for the Teaching of Latin (c. 1400 to 1540) – Robert Mailhammer: From ic nolde to I don’t wanna: The Status of Clitics in the History of English – Wolfgang Falkner: Then as a Coordinating Adverb or What a Difference a Comma Makes – Ingrid Piller: Airport Language and the Globalization of Nothing – Susanne Handl: Online Access: Collocations in the Electronic Age.