Placing Middle English in context

Folger bibliographic ID: 115835
Folger call number: PE524 .P58 2000
Folger holdings ID: 110589

General notes

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 in to 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 / Małgorzata 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 non-primary contexts for homorganic lengthening / Jerzy Wełna -- On the phonetic and phonological interpretation of the reflexes of the Old English dipthongs in the Ayenbite of Inwyt / Abertas Steponavic̆ius

Extended title: Placing Middle English in context / edited by Irma Taavitsainen ... [et al.]

English language Language and culture England

associated with: Taavitsainen, Irma