Studies in the Evolution of the English Language: 32 (Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures)

The present volume is a monographic study devoted to selected aspects of English historical phonology, orthography, syntax, morphology and semantics. It is the result of international cooperation of scholars affiliated with various academic institutions around the world, such as the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA; the University of Edinburgh, UK; the University of Westminster, UK; the University of Tours, France, the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Boris Grinchenko University in Kiev, Ukraine; the South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Bulgaria; the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; the University of Silesia, Poland; the Silesian University of Technology, Poland.

Robert Kieltyka is Professor at the University of Rzeszów, Poland, and head of the Department of Historical and Contemporary English and Contrastive Linguistics. His main areas of research includes historical linguistics (diachronic semantics), cognitive linguistics (especially metaphor-metonymy interface) and word-formation.