Processes of change in the history of English (Schneider)

With an eye to principles of linguistic change, the project investigates processes of change with respect to specific phenomena in the history of English and their continuation into varying manifestations in modern varieties. Notably, morphological and syntactic changes in the usage conditions of wh-pronouns as well as properties of certain mental verbs, including the use of as to connect object and object complement in complex transitive clauses, have been central topics of interest.

Publications and presentation

Schneider, Edgar W. 1988. "On polysemy in English, considering consider." In Werner Hüllen & Rainer Schulze, eds., Understanding the Lexicon. Meaning, Sense and World Knowledge in Lexical Semantics. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 157-169

Schneider, Edgar W. 1993. "The grammaticalization of possessive of which in Middle English and Early Modern English." Folia Linguistic Historica 14, 239-257.

Schneider, Edgar W. 1994. "You that be not able to consyder thys order of thinges: Variability and change in th