The virtues of language : history in language, linguistics, and texts : papers in memory of Thomas Frank / [edited by] Dieter Stein, Rosanna Sornicola.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thomas Frank, 1925-1990 / E.F. Konrad Koerner -- Thomas Frank in the Neapolitan environment / Rosanna Sornicola -- Honoring Thomas Frank : introduction and overview of the contributions / Rosanna Sornicola & Dieter Stein -- Grammaticalisation, textuality, and subjectivity : the progressive and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Susan Fitzmaurice -- Language of 'wit' in Piers Plowman / Nicola Pantaleo -- Relative sentences in late Middle English : the Paston and the Cely letters / Dieter Stein -- Interpretation of historical sources as a problem for diachronic typology : word-order in English rhetorical and grammatical treatises of the XVIth and early XVIIth centuries / Rosanna Sornicola -- 'New science' and the new language in seventeenth century England / Gabriella Di Martino -- Otto Jespersen as a reader of the Cours de linguistique générale / Konrad Koerner -- Macbeth and the implied director / Stefano Manferlotti -- Sir Thomas Elyot's The image of governance : a humanist's Speculum principis and a literary puzzle / Uwe Baumann -- Union of England and Scotland represented at court in Ben Jonson's Hymenaei (1606) / Anna Maria Palombi Cataldi -- "How-to" literature : a comparison of some texts on childbirth / David Hart.

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The volume contains 13 specially written specialist articles on a wide range of subjects within the ambit of the history of the English language and prominent literary uses of it. In uniting linguistic and literary pursuits in a single volume, it follows the noble Neapolitan scholar's research interests, as well as representing topics that figure prominently in any comprehensive university course in English. Subjects range from the rise of the present progressive in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle via issues in Medieval English, concepts of language inherent in the Early Modern English grammatical t.

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