Placing Middle English in Context /

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (518 p.)
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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

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