Author index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Chronological and social context
6. Language periodization and the concept “middle” 7
7. Language and society in twelfth-century England 43
8. Syntactic constraints on code-switching in medieval texts 67
9. Dialect, normalization and corpus-linguistic methodology
10. Introduction 89
11. Never the twain shall meet. Early Middle English - the East-West divide 97
12. Standard language in Early Middle English? 125
13. Changing spaces: Linguistic relationships and the dialect continuum 141
14. Normalizing the word forms in The Ayenbite of Inwyt 181
15. Chaucer's spelling and the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales 199
16. WHICH and THE WHICH in Late Middle English: Free variants? 209
17. Lexical semantics
18. Introduction 229
19. Robbares and reuares þat ryche men despoilen: Some competing forms 235
20. Here comes the judge: A small contribution to the study of French input into the vocabulary of the law in Middle English 255
21. Naming and avoiding naming objects of terror: A case study 277
22. An application of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage to diachronic semantics 293
23. Patterns of semantic change in abstract nouns: The case of wit 313
24. The spatial and temporal meanings of before in Middle English 329
25. The adjective weary in Middle English structures: A syntactic-semantic study 339
26. Utterance and discourse meaning
27. Introduction 361
28. Slanders, slurs and insults on the road to Canterbury: Forms of verbal aggression in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 369
29. Hir not lettyrd: The use of interjections, pragmatic markers and whan-clauses in The Book of Margery Kempe 391
30. Whoso thorgh presumpcion ... mysdeme hyt: Chaucer's poetic adaptation of the medieval “book curse” 411
31. Sounds, prosody and metre
32. Introduction 427
33. Middle English prosodic innovations and their testability in verse 431
34. Old English (non)-palatalised */k/: Competing forces of change at work in the “seek”-verbs 461
35. Some remarks on the nonprimary contexts for Homorganic Lengthening 475
36. On the phonetic and phonological interpretation of the reflexes of the Old English diphthongs in the Ayenbite of Inwyt 489
37. Author index 505
38. Subject index 509