Research Catalog

Title

Placing Middle English in context / edited by Irma Taavitsainen [and others].

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Taavitsainen, Irma.

Description

x, 518 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Topics in English linguistics ; 35

Uniform Title

Topics in English linguistics ; 35.

Subject

• To 1500
• English language > Middle English, 1100-1500
• Language and culture > England > History > To 1500
• 18.04 English language
• Civilization
• English language > Middle English
• Language and culture
• Mittelenglisch
• Middelengels
• Standaardtaal
• Semantiek
• Fonologie
• Discourse analysis
• England > Civilization > 1066-1485
• England
• Mittelenglisch
• Espoo <1997>

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Language periodization and the concept "middle" / Roger Lass -- Language and society in twelfth-century England / Tim William Machan -- Syntactic constraints on code-switching in medieval texts / Herbert Schendl -- Never the twain shall meet : Early Middle English, the East-West divide / Margaret Laing -- Standard language in Early Middle English?/ Jeremy Smith -- Changing spaces : linguistic relationships and the dialect continuum / Keith Williamson -- Normalizing the word forms in the Ayenbite of Inwyt / Manfred Markus -- Chaucer's spelling and the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales / Simon Horobin -- 'Which' and 'The which' in Late Middle English : free variants? / Helena Raumolin-Brunberg -- 'Robbares and reuares þat ryche men despoilen : some competing forms / Jane Roberts -- Here comes the judge : a small contribution to the study of French input into the vocabulary of the law in Middle English / Janet Bately.
• Naming and avoiding naming objects of terror : a case study / Louise Sylvester -- An application of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage to diachronic semantics / Malgorzata Fabiszak -- Patterns of semantic change in abstract nouns : the case of wit / Päivi Koivisto-Alanko -- The spatial and temporal meanings of before in Middle English / Ruta Nagucka -- The adjective weary in Middle English structures : a syntactic-semantic study / Saara Nevanlinna -- Slanders, slurs and insults on the road to Canterbury : forms of verbal aggression in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales / Andreas H. Jucker -- Hir not lettyrd : the use of interjections, pragmatic markers and whan-clauses in The Book of Margery Kempe / Liliana Sikorska -- Whoso thorgh presumpcion ... mysdeme hyt : Chaucer's poetic adaptation of the medieval "book curse" / Leslie Arnovick -- Middle English prosodic innovations and their testability in verse / Donka Minkova -- Old English (non)-palatalised */k/ : competing forces of change at work in the "seek"-verbs / Marcin Krygier -- Some remarks on the nonprimary contexts for Homorganic Lengthening / Jerzy Wełna -- On the phonetic and phonological interpretation of the reflexes of the Old English diphthongs in the Ayenbite of Inwyt / Albertas Steponavičius.

ISBN

• 3110167808
• 9783110167801

LCCN

00066215

OCLC

• ocm45393041
• 45393041
• SCSB-1203888

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library