Recording English, Researching English, Transforming English

Hans Sauer is Professor Emeritus at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. His research interests include Medieval English texts, word-formation, lexicography, plant names, Beowulf, the history of linguistics and varieties of English.Gaby Waxenberger is Associate Professor at LMU Munich and is specialized in Old and Middle English, Old English Runology and varieties of English.

• Contents: Trinidad Guzmán-González: Homo loquens, homo scribens: On the role of writing in language change, with special reference to English – Gaby Waxenberger: The reflection of pre-Old English sound changes in pre-Old English runic inscriptions – Jerzy Wełna: Middle English evidence of the elimination of velar fricatives: A prose corpus study – Carla Morini: The chain-mail coat terminology in Old-English and the dating of Beowulf – Kousuke Kaita: Old English geweald habban/āgan as a stylistic set phrase, compared with Old High German and Old Saxon cognates – Annette Mantlik: An etymological analysis of shell nouns – Nadĕžda Kudrnáčová: Secondary agent constructions from a diachronic perspective – Mary Blockley: Connectives before Chaucer: Conjunctive for and its competition in Early Middle English – Yuko Higashiizumi: A history of Because-clauses and the coordination-subordination dichotomy – Christina Suárez Gómez: The replacement of ϸe by ϸat in the history of English – Fuyo Osawa: Impersonal and passive constructions from a view-point of functional category emergence – Maria F. Garcia-Bermejo Giner: The southern dialect in Thomas Churchyard´s The Contention bettwixte Churchyearde and Camell (1552) – Julia Fernández Cuesta/Christopher Langmuir: Scoto-Cumbrian? The representation of dialect in the works of Josiah Relph and Susanna Blamire – John Insley: J. R: R: Tolkien and the historical study of English – Stella Wang: Cinese translations of Beowulf.