“Historical English Word-Formation” – Call for Papers
“Historical English Word-Formation” – CfPLudwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich Department of English and American Studies Organisers: Kerstin Majewski and Hans Sauer Munich, 17–18 February 2023 In its development from Old English to today, the English vocabulary underwent a radical restructuring due to an enormous influx of (complex) lexemes from Latin, Anglo-Norman, French, Greek, and other languages. Even though historical linguistics has traced and investigated many aspects of the complex mechanisms of language contact involved in all levels of language, studies on historical word-formation are comparatively rare (cf.,…
