Manfred Görlach Livres

Reviews tend to be the most ephemeral products in scholar's life - and yet, many are worth keeping and re-reading. Some forty of the author's reviews are here selected and arranged under Medieval studies, Historical linguistics and the history of English, Dialectology, socio-linguistics and contact linguistics, and Lexicography. A full bibliography of all the reviews 1972-2002 and indexes conclude the book.

The evolution of modern European languages has been shaped significantly by their expanding functions since 1500, leading to notable developments in syntax and lexis, particularly through the conventionalization of text types. This account offers a comprehensive exploration of the history and current state of the English language, beginning with the German concept of Textsorte from the 1960s. It links designations of text types to stable forms that guide both writers and readers, allowing for the identification of standard and misused forms. Approximately two thousand designations are listed, each accompanied by minimal definitions and dates of first occurrences. The focus then shifts to selected illustrative types, such as book dedications, cooking recipes, advertisements, church hymns, lexical entries, and jokes, examining their functions and historical development in relation to linguistic characteristics and societal changes. The discussion also includes the functional range of text types beyond England, highlighting the impact of English categories on Scots/Scottish English and English in India. The analysis is enriched with textual excerpts and over fifty pages of facsimiles, emphasizing typographical insights. A comprehensive bibliography and indices are included, making this work valuable for constructing representative text corpora and encouraging further research into diverse text types and contrastive analyses among

This final collection of the author's papers devoted to the history of English comprises ten recent (revised) contributions to conferences, journals and festschriften combined with a few original chapters. Topics range from corpus linguistics to linguistic problems of editing, text type analysis and to the impact of rhetoric, and from semantic change to transnational problems of medieval texts. These are framed by an outline account of the structural development of English and the contribution of world English to historical linguistics. Finally, an annotated bibliography of the 300 most relevant titles of the discipline is included.

Three comprehensive papers of central relevance for the history of English, all written in 2001 and still unpublished, are here combined: „The contribution of translations to the history of English“, „English etymology 1617-1882“ and „Correctness and the history of English“. This collection complements the author's three earlier ones published in the same series.

The 18th century has a special relevance for the development of modern English: the ruling tradition of neo-classical attitudes and perspective grammar laid the foundations for linguisitc correctness on various levels - it established regularity in spelling and later in pronunciation, defined the standard lexis by excluding dialect, slang and lower sociolects, and fixed the rules for the languages of literature and good style, in a unique fusion of literary and linguistic judgments with developments in political and cultural history. The book gives a critical survey of the status of English in the 18th-century Britain and a description on all individual levels (spelling, pronunciation, morphology, syntax, lexis, text types and styles). Forms and functions of the English language outside England (especially in Scotland, Ireland and the United States) are duly considered. More than a hundred texts from various genres are included; they serve as an illustration of the linguistic phenomena and as a basis for the analysis encouraged by 100 study questions.

Katalog zur Ausstellung „Weltsprache Englisch“ von Manfred Görlach vom 06.07.-31.08.2002 in der Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln

This is the first textbook accessible to students for use in university courses since Grant & Dixon (1921) - in contrast to the many introductions available for the history of British and American English. The description deals with the status and forms of Scots, its incipient standardization and the dialectalization followed by its development 1400-2000 on the levels of spelling, phonology, inflection, syntax and lexis. Special chapters are devoted to Literary Scots and the consequences of the anglization and the reduction of Scots to a restricted range of functions. The description is accompanied by a great number of illustrations and textual excerpts as well as questions which lead the student on to the 75 longer texts selected from six centuries and from various genres.