Fidelity in versification: Modern English translations of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents VII
3. Tabula Laudatoria IX
4. Introduction: Heuristics and evidence in studying the history of the English language 1
5. Triggering events 11
6. What’s new in Old English? 55
7. Coding the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose to investigate the syntaxpragmatics interface 61
8. Anglian dialect features in Old English anonymous homiletic literature: A survey, with preliminary findings 81
9. The elusive progress of prosodical study 101
10. Fidelity in versification: Modern English translations of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 121
11. Response to Tom Cable’s comments 153
12. Metrical evidence: Did Chaucer translate The Romaunt of the Rose? 155
13. Trochees in an iambic meter: Assumptions or evidence? 181
14. “Ubbe dubbede him to knith”: The scansion of Havelok and ME -es, -ed, and -ede 187
15. A response to Tom Cable 205
16. Patterns and productivity 207
17. Borrowed derivational morphology in Late Middle English: A study of the records of the London Grocers and Goldsmiths 231
18. Fixer-uppers and passers-by: Nominalization of verb-particle constructions 265
19. Words and constructions in grammaticalization: The end of the English impersonal construction 301
20. Variation in Late Modern English: Making the best use of ‘bad data’ 327
21. English/French bilingualism in nineteenth century Lousiana: A social network analysis 337
22. Taking permissible shortcuts? Limited evidence, heuristic reasoning and the modal auxiliaries in early Canadian English 357
23. ‘What strikes the ear’ Thomas Sheridan and regional pronunciation 387
24. Backmatter 413