Placing Middle English in Context / / ed. by Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, Matti Rissanen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Arnovick, Leslie K.,; Bately, Janet,; Blake, Norman F.,; Brinton, Laurel J.,; Diller, Hans-Jürgen,; Fabiszak, Małgorzata,; Horobin, Simon,; Jucker, Andreas H.,; Koivisto-Alanko, Päivi,; Krygier, Marcin,; Laing, Margaret,; Lass, Roger,; Machan, Tim William,; Markus, Manfred,; Minkova, Donka,; Nagucka, Ruta,; Nevalainen, Terttu,; Nevanlinna, Saara,; Pahta, Päivi,; Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena,; Rissanen, Matti,; Ritt, Nikolaus,; Roberts, Jane,; Schendl, Herbert,; Sikorska, Liliana,; Smith, Jeremy,; Steponavičius, Albertas,; Sylvester, Louise,; Taavitsainen, Irma,; Wełna, Jerzy,; Williamson, Keith,
• HerausgeberIn: Nevalainen, Terttu,; Pahta, Päivi,; Rissanen, Matti,; Taavitsainen, Irma,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (518 p.)
• Other title: I-IV --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chronological and social context --; Language periodization and the concept “middle” --; Language and society in twelfth-century England --; Syntactic constraints on code-switching in medieval texts --; Dialect, normalization and corpus-linguistic methodology --; Never the twain shall meet. Early Middle English - the East-West divide --; Standard language in Early Middle English? --; Changing spaces: Linguistic relationships and the dialect continuum --; Normalizing the word forms in The Ayenbite of Inwyt --; Chaucer's spelling and the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales --; WHICH and THE WHICH in Late Middle English: Free variants? --; Lexical semantics --; Robbares and reuares þat ryche men despoilen: Some competing forms --; Here comes the judge: A small contribution to the study of French input into the vocabulary of the law in Middle English --; Naming and avoiding naming objects of terror: A case study --; An application of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage to diachronic semantics --; Patterns of semantic change in abstract nouns: The case of wit --; The spatial and temporal meanings of before in Middle English --; The adjective weary in Middle English structures: A syntactic-semantic study --; Utterance and discourse meaning --; Slanders, slurs and insults on the road to Canterbury: Forms of verbal aggression in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales --; Hir not lettyrd: The use of interjections, pragmatic markers and whan-clauses in The Book of Margery Kempe --; Whoso thorgh presumpcion ... mysdeme hyt: Chaucer's poetic adaptation of the medieval “book curse” --; Sounds, prosody and metre --; Middle English prosodic innovations and their testability in verse --; Old English (non)-palatalised */k/: Competing forces of change at work in the “seek”-verbs --; Some remarks on the nonprimary contexts for Homorganic Lengthening --; On the phonetic and phonological interpretation of the reflexes of the Old English diphthongs in the Ayenbite of Inwyt --; Author index --; Subject index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110869514; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 1434-3452
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110869514
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, Matti Rissanen.