ENG6362F: History & Structure of the English language II (Fall 2007)

Graduate Department of English, University of Toronto

• Dolce far niente: A comparative and theoretical study of Anglo-Italian Borrowing (Marco Avolio)

• Varieties of nostalgia: Victorian and Modernist romances with etymology (Glenn Clifton)

• Born still: Euphemism and the double taboo of women's bodies and death (Allison Crawford)

• The rise, reign, and (declining?) reputation of Received Pronunciation (Melanie East)

• "I'm just googling Frappuccino": Non-literal language and the "Corporatization" of Speech (Sarah Henderson)

• High-tech money producing high-tech words: The history of e- and i- (Brandon McFarlane)

• The descent of English: New evolutionary models of language change (Daniel Newman)

• "A pet-vice among us": Swearing in the eighteenth century (Erin Parker)

• Nathan Bailey and the eighteenth-century dictionary (Melissa Patterson)

• Fixing language forever: eighteenth-century proposals for an English academy (Michael Raby)

• "Strange accents or ill shapen sounds": Dialect in Early Modern Drama (Erin Reynolds)

• Military terminology and the English language (Adele Wilson)