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.)

Table of Contents

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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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