Placing Middle English in Context

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Placing Middle English in Context

Edited by: Irma Taavitsainen , Terttu Nevalainen , Päivi Pahta and Matti Rissanen

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2000

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Volume 35 | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

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Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Generative Linguistics

I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Introduction Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta and Matti Rissanen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Chronological and social context
Language periodization and the concept “middle” Roger Lass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
Language and society in twelfth-century England Tim William Machan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Syntactic constraints on code-switching in medieval texts Herbert Schendl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Dialect, normalization and corpus-linguistic methodology
Introduction Norman F. Blake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
Never the twain shall meet. Early Middle English - the East-West divide Margaret Laing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
Standard language in Early Middle English? Jeremy Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
Changing spaces: Linguistic relationships and the dialect continuum Keith Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
Normalizing the word forms in The Ayenbite of Inwyt Manfred Markus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Chaucer's spelling and the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales Simon Horobin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
WHICH and THE WHICH in Late Middle English: Free variants? Helena Raumolin-Brunberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
Lexical semantics
Introduction Hans-Jürgen Diller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Robbares and reuares þat ryche men despoilen: Some competing forms Jane Roberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Here comes the judge: A small contribution to the study of French input into the vocabulary of the law in Middle English Janet Bately Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
Naming and avoiding naming objects of terror: A case study Louise Sylvester Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
An application of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage to diachronic semantics Małgorzata Fabiszak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
Patterns of semantic change in abstract nouns: The case of wit Päivi Koivisto-Alanko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
The spatial and temporal meanings of before in Middle English Ruta Nagucka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
The adjective weary in Middle English structures: A syntactic-semantic study Saara Nevanlinna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
Utterance and discourse meaning
Introduction Laurel J. Brinton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
Slanders, slurs and insults on the road to Canterbury: Forms of verbal aggression in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Andreas H. Jucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369
Hir not lettyrd: The use of interjections, pragmatic markers and whan-clauses in The Book of Margery Kempe Liliana Sikorska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
Whoso thorgh presumpcion ... mysdeme hyt: Chaucer's poetic adaptation of the medieval “book curse” Leslie K. Arnovick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
Sounds, prosody and metre
Introduction Nikolaus Ritt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
Middle English prosodic innovations and their testability in verse Donka Minkova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	431
Old English (non)-palatalised */k/: Competing forces of change at work in the “seek”-verbs Marcin Krygier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	461
Some remarks on the nonprimary contexts for Homorganic Lengthening Jerzy Wełna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	475
On the phonetic and phonological interpretation of the reflexes of the Old English diphthongs in the Ayenbite of Inwyt Albertas Steponavičius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	489
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	505
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	509

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eBook published on:

October 31, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110869514

Hardcover published on:

January 30, 2001

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110167801

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Reprint 2011

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Front matter:

10

Main content:

518

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869514

eBook ISBN: 9783110869514

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110167801

Keywords for this book

Mittelenglisch; Kongress; Espoo

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