Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction ix
5. The early Middle English scribe: Sprach er wie er schrieb? 1
6. Essex/Suffolk scribes and their language in fifteenth-century London 45
7. Middle English word geography: Methodology and applications illustrated 67
8. Northern Middle English: Towards telling the full story 91
9. The origins of the Northern Subject Rule 111
10. Dynamic dialectology and social networks 131
11. The Celtic hypothesis hasn't gone away: New perspectives on old debates 153
12. On the trail of "intolerable Scoto-Hibernic jargon": Ulster English, Irish English and dialect hygiene in William Carleton's Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry (First Series, 1830) 171
13. Exceptions to sound change and external motivation 185
14. Index of subjects 195