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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9783110869514

Series Statement: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 35

Note: Frontmatter -- , 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

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-3-11-016780-1

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110869514

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869514