Peter J Grund
Biographic Data
| ID | 4016865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter J Grund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter J |
| FAMILY NAME | Grund |
| SIGNATURE | GRUND P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4978-2413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gasping, chuckling, wheezing, bellowing and co
This article explores the use of speech representation verbs in Late Modern English. Drawing data from CLMET3.0, it focuses on paralinguistic verbs in narrative fiction texts from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, as in blubbered in ‘“And only last Sunday – afternoon,” Mr. Povey blubbered .’ (CLMET3.0; 1908, Bennett, Old Wives’ Tale ). The results show a drastic increase of these verbs, both in tokens and types, across the Lat…
Negotiating Knowledge
This article explores the modulation of seven verbs that mark source of information in English: believe, hear, know, remember , see , seem , and think . Drawing data from two collections of Early Modern English legal records, the study shows that modulation is of five main types: negation, degree modification, evidential combination, frequency, and justification. The analysis reveals that the modulation fulfills communicative, stance needs relate…
A Welcome and a Thank You
Disgusting, obscene and aggravating language
This article deals with the mechanisms that language users employ in historical periods to represent spoken language in writing. I focus on a set of features known as speech descriptors , which allow users to combine representation and evaluation of the speech (and, possibly, of the speaker ), such as most disgusting in ‘he used most disgusting language’. The study shows that such speech descriptors in combination with the lemma language are used…
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
The and Alternation in the History of English
In the Early Modern English period (roughly 1500s–1700s), the use of the letters and went through a change from a positionally constrained system (i.e., initial , medial ) to a system based on phonetic value, with marking vowels and consonants. The exact dynamics of this transition have received little attention, however, and the standard account is exclusively based on printed sources. Using a data set of 3,801 examples from 107 handwritten lega…
Beyond speech representation
This article is concerned with “speech descriptors”, markers that describe or evaluate the nature of represented speech, such as very modestly in “The Gentlewoman very modestly bade him welcome” (CED, D2FKIT). The form, frequency and function of such features are charted in Early Modern English prose fiction, drawn from A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 , and the results are compared to those of Grund (2017a) , which considers speech descri…
Speaking base approbious words”
This paper explores the representation of speech in Early Modern English witness depositions. We demonstrate that Semino and Short’s (2004) framework of description, which has for the most part been used in explorations of present-day texts, is generally applicable to our historical data. Our study shows that factors such as the importance of the evidence cited and the clarity of the deposition narrative were crucial considerations in representin…
The Nature of Knowledge
This article explores evidentiality (or the linguistic marking of source of information), a topic that has received little attention in studies on the history of English. Using witness depositions from the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692–93 as material, the article reveals that a number of linguistic features are used to indicate source of information, especially verb phrases (e.g., see, hear, tell) and prepositional phrases (e.g., …
Sidrak and Bokkus
The Middle English version of the encyclopedic verse dialogue Sidrak and Bokkus has received little attention in recent scholarship, and hence questions about its organization and appeal to readers remain unanswered. Discussing a previously unexplored version of the text in the early modern alchemical miscellany Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam, MS M199, this article demonstrates how the text was read and interpreted by one late sixt…
From Tongue to Text
This article explores the problem of using court documents for studies of the spoken language of the past. It discusses three sets of examination records from the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692. By comparing records that exist in two or more alternative versions, the article shows that there are substantial linguistic and content-related differences between the versions. It is suggested that the recorders of the examinations paid more attention …
A previously unrecorded fragmentof the middle english Short Metrical Chronicle in Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica M199
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The published version can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380600757778
Vivian de Klerk. Procedural Meanings of Well in a Corpus of Xhosa English
James A. Walker. The Ain't Constraint
Nigel Harwood. ‘I Hoped to Counteract the Memory Problem, but I made no Impact Whatsoever’
Helena Raumolin-Brunberg. The Diffusion of Subject YOU
Editing the Salem Witchcraft Records
Research Article| May 01 2004 EDITING THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT RECORDS: AN EXPLORATION OF A LINGUISTIC TREASURY PETER GRUND; PETER GRUND Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google MERJA KYTÖ; MERJA KYTÖ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google MATTI RISSANEN MATTI RISSANEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2004) 79 (2): 146–166. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-79-2-146 Views…
From Tongue to Text
This article explores the problem of using court documents for studies of the spoken language of the past. It discusses three sets of examination records from the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692. By comparing records that exist in two or more alternative versions, the article shows that there are substantial linguistic and content-related differences between the versions. It is suggested that the recorders of the examinations paid more attention …
The Nature of Knowledge
This article explores evidentiality (or the linguistic marking of source of information), a topic that has received little attention in studies on the history of English. Using witness depositions from the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692–93 as material, the article reveals that a number of linguistic features are used to indicate source of information, especially verb phrases (e.g., see, hear, tell) and prepositional phrases (e.g., …
Editing the Salem Witchcraft Records
Research Article| May 01 2004 EDITING THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT RECORDS: AN EXPLORATION OF A LINGUISTIC TREASURY PETER GRUND; PETER GRUND Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google MERJA KYTÖ; MERJA KYTÖ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google MATTI RISSANEN MATTI RISSANEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2004) 79 (2): 146–166. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-79-2-146 Views…
Editing the Salem Witchcraft Records
Research Article| May 01 2004 EDITING THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT RECORDS: AN EXPLORATION OF A LINGUISTIC TREASURY PETER GRUND; PETER GRUND Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google MERJA KYTÖ; MERJA KYTÖ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google MATTI RISSANEN MATTI RISSANEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2004) 79 (2): 146–166. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-79-2-146 Views…
Vivian de Klerk. Procedural Meanings of Well in a Corpus of Xhosa English
James A. Walker. The Ain't Constraint
Nigel Harwood. ‘I Hoped to Counteract the Memory Problem, but I made no Impact Whatsoever’
Helena Raumolin-Brunberg. The Diffusion of Subject YOU
A previously unrecorded fragmentof the middle english Short Metrical Chronicle in Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica M199
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The published version can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380600757778
Sidrak and Bokkus
The Middle English version of the encyclopedic verse dialogue Sidrak and Bokkus has received little attention in recent scholarship, and hence questions about its organization and appeal to readers remain unanswered. Discussing a previously unexplored version of the text in the early modern alchemical miscellany Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam, MS M199, this article demonstrates how the text was read and interpreted by one late sixt…
From Tongue to Text
This article explores the problem of using court documents for studies of the spoken language of the past. It discusses three sets of examination records from the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692. By comparing records that exist in two or more alternative versions, the article shows that there are substantial linguistic and content-related differences between the versions. It is suggested that the recorders of the examinations paid more attention …
The Nature of Knowledge
This article explores evidentiality (or the linguistic marking of source of information), a topic that has received little attention in studies on the history of English. Using witness depositions from the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692–93 as material, the article reveals that a number of linguistic features are used to indicate source of information, especially verb phrases (e.g., see, hear, tell) and prepositional phrases (e.g., …
Speaking base approbious words”
This paper explores the representation of speech in Early Modern English witness depositions. We demonstrate that Semino and Short’s (2004) framework of description, which has for the most part been used in explorations of present-day texts, is generally applicable to our historical data. Our study shows that factors such as the importance of the evidence cited and the clarity of the deposition narrative were crucial considerations in representin…
Beyond speech representation
This article is concerned with “speech descriptors”, markers that describe or evaluate the nature of represented speech, such as very modestly in “The Gentlewoman very modestly bade him welcome” (CED, D2FKIT). The form, frequency and function of such features are charted in Early Modern English prose fiction, drawn from A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 , and the results are compared to those of Grund (2017a) , which considers speech descri…
The and Alternation in the History of English
In the Early Modern English period (roughly 1500s–1700s), the use of the letters and went through a change from a positionally constrained system (i.e., initial , medial ) to a system based on phonetic value, with marking vowels and consonants. The exact dynamics of this transition have received little attention, however, and the standard account is exclusively based on printed sources. Using a data set of 3,801 examples from 107 handwritten lega…
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
Disgusting, obscene and aggravating language
This article deals with the mechanisms that language users employ in historical periods to represent spoken language in writing. I focus on a set of features known as speech descriptors , which allow users to combine representation and evaluation of the speech (and, possibly, of the speaker ), such as most disgusting in ‘he used most disgusting language’. The study shows that such speech descriptors in combination with the lemma language are used…
A Welcome and a Thank You
Gasping, chuckling, wheezing, bellowing and co
This article explores the use of speech representation verbs in Late Modern English. Drawing data from CLMET3.0, it focuses on paralinguistic verbs in narrative fiction texts from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, as in blubbered in ‘“And only last Sunday – afternoon,” Mr. Povey blubbered .’ (CLMET3.0; 1908, Bennett, Old Wives’ Tale ). The results show a drastic increase of these verbs, both in tokens and types, across the Lat…
Negotiating Knowledge
This article explores the modulation of seven verbs that mark source of information in English: believe, hear, know, remember , see , seem , and think . Drawing data from two collections of Early Modern English legal records, the study shows that modulation is of five main types: negation, degree modification, evidential combination, frequency, and justification. The analysis reveals that the modulation fulfills communicative, stance needs relate…
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