CONTENTS
Preface = Ⅴ
List of participants = Ⅸ
Paragraph 16 of Audacht Morainn: linguistic theory and philological evidence / Anders Ahlqvist = 1
The missing link: the role of the lexicon / Jean Aitchison = 11
Text as social indicator: the letters of Julia Miles Barnes / Frances Austin = 29
The development of discourse markers in English / Laurel J. Brinton = 45
Localizing William of Palerne / Gerrit H.V.Bunt = 73
Philological studies and Mayan languages / Lyle Campbell = 87
Philology in America: Nahuatl / Una Canger = 107
Towards a dialectology of spoken Old French: the analysis of rhymes / Anthonij Dees = 119
The phonological status of long consonants in the Vernon manuscript of the Ancrene Riwle / Bernhard Diensberg = 135
Linguistic searchlights and philological buckets: a case study of their interdependence (the conceptual field of persuade/convince) / Hans-J$$\ddot u$$rgen Diller = 143
Syntactic and pragmatic principles as arguments in the interpretation of runic inscriptions / Jan Terje Faarlund = 165
The relationship between punctuation and syntax in Middle Dutch / Marinel Gerritsen = 187
Unhistorical features in Massachusett orthography / Ives Goddard = 227
The orthographic aspect of the runes / Veronika Kniezsa = 245
The object of philology and the object of linguistics / Witold Ma$$\acute n$$czak = 261
The occurrence of glosses in three Late Middle English texts: lexical variation / Saara Nevanlinna = 273
On scribal errors: from the Old Saxon evidence / Karl Odwarka = 291
The last Vercelli homily: a sentence-analytical edition / Herbert Pilch = 297
Linguistics and philology: parametric changes and Romance possessives / Rebecca Posner = 337
On the happy reunion of English philology and historical linguistics / Matti Rissanen = 353
The importance of fine points in spelling: deletion of accented vowels in Tocharian B / Werner Winter = 371
Index of authors = 393
Index of languages = 399
