Lexical diffusion in the History of English

• Project/Area Number: 21720178
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Chuo University
• Principal Investigator: HOTTA Ryuichi 中央大学, 文学部, 准教授 (30440267)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2012
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 英語史 / 言語変化 / 歴史言語学 / 語彙拡散 / 中英語 / 近代英語 / コーパス言語学 / 方言

Research Abstract

Lexical Diffusion has been proposed as a theory that explains the way in which language change proceeds, but few serious attempts have been made to test its theoretical validity by applying it to particular language changes. The present researc

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Representativeness, Word Frequency, and Keywords in the LAEME Corpus (2013)
  • Author(s): Ryuichi Hotta
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Faculty of Letters: Language, Literature and Culture Volume: 112 Pages: 67-84
  • NAID: 110009631460
• [Journal Article] The Diatonic Stress Shift in Modern English (2013)
  • Author(s): Ryuichi Hotta
  • Journal Title: Studies in Modern English Volume: 29 Pages: 1-20
  • NAID: 40019784470
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] "The Order and Schedule of Nominal Plural Formation Transfer in Three Southern Dialects of Early Middle English" English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Li (2012)
  • Author(s): Hotta, Ryuichi
  • Journal Title: Iren Hegedus and Alexandra Fodor. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pages: 94-113
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Noun-Verb Stress Alternation: Its Nineteenth-Century Development and Its Earlier Historical Backgrounds (2012)
  • Author(s): Hotta, Ryuichi
  • Journal Title: Lexicon Volume: 42 Pages: 79-94
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The Levelling of Adjectival Inflection in Early Middle English: A Diachronic and Dialectal Study with the LAEME Corpus (2012)
  • Author(s): Ryuichi Hotta
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Institute of Cultural Science Volume: 73 Pages: 255-73
  • NAID: 40019463445
• [Journal Article] The Order and Schedule of Nominal Plural Formation Transfer in Three Southern Dialects of Early Middle English (2012)
  • Author(s): Ryuichi Hotta
  • Journal Title: English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pecs, 22-27 August 2010 Volume: 16 Pages: 94-113
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Noun-Verb Stress Alternation : An Example of Continuing Lexical Diffusion in Present-Day English (2012)
  • Author(s): Hotta, Ryuichi
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Faculty of Letters : Language, Literature and Culture Volume: 110 Pages: 39-63
  • NAID: 110009488796
• [Journal Article] Auchinleck MSのロマンスと中英語方言 個別化の視点から (2011)
  • Author(s): Hotta, Ryuichi
  • Journal Title: 日本英文学会第83回大会Proceedings Volume: 第6号 Pages: 117-119
  • NAID: 40019043291
• [Journal Article] The Suffix -ish and Its Derogatory Connotation : A Historical Study Based on OED (2011)
  • Author(s): Ryuichi, Hotta
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Institute of Cultural Science Volume: 180 Pages: 107-132
• [Journal Article] Leaders and Laggers of Language Change: Nominal Plural Forms in -s in Early Middle English (2010)
  • Author(s): Hotta, Ryuichi
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Institute of Cultural Science (The 30th Anniversary Issue II) Volume: 68 Pages: 1-17
  • NAID: 40017102190
• [Journal Article] Review of The Development of the Nominal Plural Forms in Early Middle English (2010)
  • Author(s): Hotta, Ryuichi
  • Journal Title: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature Volume: 25 Pages: 95-112
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Thesauri or Thesauruses? A Diachronic Distribution of Plural Forms for Latin-Derived Nouns Ending in -us (2010)
  • Author(s): Ryuichi, Hotta
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Faculty of Letters : Language, Literature and Culture 106 Pages: 117-136
  • NAID: 110007711052
• [Journal Article] Leaders and Laggers of Language Change : Nominal Plural Forms in -s in Early Middle English (2010)
  • Author(s): Ryuichi, Hotta
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Institute of Cultural Science (The 30^<th> Anniversary lssue II) 68号 Pages: 1-17
  • NAID: 40017102190
• [Journal Article] Variation in Nominal Plural Formation in the Southern Dialects of Early Middle English (2009)
  • Author(s): Ryuichi, Hotta
  • Journal Title: Studies in English Literature 2 Pages: 285-304
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] The Representativeness of LAEME Corpus and Word Frequency in Early Middle English with Special Reference to the Lexical Diffusion of s-Pluralisation (2013)
  • Author(s): Ryuichi Hotta
  • Organizer: The 8th International Conference on Middle English
  • Place of Presentation: University of Murcia
• [Presentation] A LAEME-Based Study on the Levelling of Adjectival Inflections in Early Middle English (2012)
  • Author(s): Hotta, Ryuichi
  • Organizer: The 17th International Conference of English Historical Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: University of Zurich
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-23
• [Presentation] 初期中英語の形容詞屈折語尾の水平化―LAEME による概観― (2012)
  • Author(s): 堀田隆一
  • Organizer: 英語史研究会第22回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 上智大学
• [Presentation] 近代英語初期から21世紀にかけての「名前動後」の拡大 (2012)
  • Author(s): 堀田隆一
  • Organizer: 近代英語協会第29回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 青山学院大学
• [Presentation] Textual Peculiarities and Textual Transmission of the Poema Morale, MS M. (2011)
  • Author(s): Hotta, Ryuichi
  • Organizer: The 7th International Conference on Middle English
  • Place of Presentation: University of Lviv
  • Year and Date: 2011-08-03
• [Presentation] Textual Peculiarities and Textual Transmission of the Poema Morale, MS M (2011)
  • Author(s): Hotta, Ryuichi
  • Organizer: The Seventh International Conference on Middle English
  • Place of Presentation: University of Lviv
  • Year and Date: 2011-08-03
• [Presentation] Auchinleck MS のロマンスと中英語方言 個別化の視点から (2011)
  • Author(s): 堀田隆一
  • Organizer: 日本英文学会第83回全国大会 「中世ロマンスと<個>の多様性」シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 北九州大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-05-21
• [Presentation] Adjectival Inflection in Kyng Alisaunder (2011)
  • Author(s): 堀田隆一
  • Organizer: 日本英文学会第83回全国大会
  • Place of Presentation: 北九州大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-05-21
• [Presentation] The Poema Morale, MS Mの言語特徴 (2010)
  • Author(s): 堀田隆一
  • Organizer: 日本中世英語英文学会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪学院大学
  • Year and Date: 2010-12-05
• [Presentation] What Determined the Schedule of the s-Plural Diffusion in Southern Dialects of Early Middle English? (2010)
  • Author(s): Hotta, Ryuichi
  • Organizer: The 16th International Conference of English Historical Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: University of Pec
  • Year and Date: 2010-08-24
• [Presentation] What Determined the Schedule of the s-Plural Diffusion in Southern Dialects of Early Middle English? (2010)
  • Author(s): Ryuichi, Hotta
  • Organizer: International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: University of Pecs
  • Year and Date: 2010-08-24
• [Presentation] The Suffix-ish and Its Derogatory Connotation : A Historical Study (2010)
  • Author(s): 堀田隆一
  • Organizer: 英語史研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学文学部
  • Year and Date: 2010-03-27
• [Book] 英語史で解きほぐす英語の誤解---納得して英語を学ぶために (2011)
  • Author(s): 堀田隆一
  • Total Pages: 197
  • Publisher: 中央大学出版部
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