Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Code-switching in early English: Historical background and methodological and theoretical issues 15
6. Beyond boundaries: Code-switching in the leases of Oswald of Worcester 47
7. Code-switching in the later medieval English lay subsidy rolls 95
8. Syntactic aspects of code-switching in Oxford, MS Bodley 649 115
9. Death, taxes and property: Some code-switching evidence from Dover, Southampton, and York 155
10. On variation in medieval mixed-language business writing 191
11. Multilingual discourse in the domain of religion in medieval and early modern England: A corpus approach to research on historical code-switching 219
12. “Gadryng Togedre of Medecyne in the Partye of Cyrugie”: Strategies of code-switching in the Middle English translations of Chauliac’s Chirurgia Magna 253
13. Code-switching in Langland, Chaucer and the Gawain poet: Diglossia and footing 281
14. The visual pragmatics of code-switching in late Middle English literature 303
15. Index of Manuscripts 335
16. Index of Subjects and Languages 337