The Old English Anglian/Saxon boundary revisited

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. The development of an "impersonal" verb in Middle English: the case of behoove 1
5. Double trouble: Geminate versus simplex graphs in the Ormulum 23
6. Language and style in additions to The Canterbury Tales 59
7. The Middle English creolization hypothesis revisited 79
8. Infinitive marking in Late Middle English: Transitivity and changes in the English system of case 109
9. From syntax to discourse: The function of object-verb order in Late Middle English 135
10. Words in -ate and the history of English stress 157
11. Assessing the relative status of languages in medieval Ireland 181
12. Using the future to predict the past: Old English dialectology in the light of Middle English place-names 207
13. When did Middle English begin? Later than you think! 221
14. The Old English Anglian/Saxon boundary revisited 271
15. Stress, survival and change: Old to Middle English 283
16. Against the emergence of the nuclear stress rule in Middle English 301
17. -ing-constructions in Middle English 335
18. Concessive clauses in Chaucer's prose 351
19. Middle English nonrestrictive expository apposition with an explicit marker 373
20. On the beginning and development of the begin to construction 403
21. The Peterborough Chronicle diphthongs 429
22. Middle English phonetics: A systematic survey including notes on Irish and Welsh loanwords 439
23. Quasi-impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English 469
24. Like father (un)like son: a sociolinguistic approach to the language of the Cely family 489
25. Whatever happened to the Middle English indefinite pronouns? 513
26. Mutation, variation and selection in phonological evolution: A sketch based on the case of Late Middle English a > au/_ l{C/#} 531
27. Handmade tales: The implications of linguistic variation in two early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 551
28. Middle (and Old) English prerequisites for the Great Vowel Shift 561
29. Exclamations in Late Middle English 573
30. Index of names 609
31. Index of subjects 617