Placing Middle English in Context ( Topics in English Linguistics TiEL )

Publication series :Topics in English Linguistics TiEL

Author: Irma Taavitsainen   Terttu Nevalainen   Päivi Pahta   Matti Rissanen  

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton‎

Publication year: 2000

E-ISBN: 9783110869514

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110167801

Subject: H310.9 English history

Language: ENG

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Chapter

Preface

pp.:  1 – 5

Introduction

pp.:  5 – 11

Syntactic constraints on code-switching in medieval texts

pp.:  53 – 67

Dialect, normalization and corpus-linguistic methodology

pp.:  67 – 97

Introduction

pp.:  97 – 99

Never the twain shall meet. Early Middle English – The East-West divide

pp.:  99 – 107

Standard language in Early Middle English?

pp.:  107 – 135

Changing spaces: Linguistic relationships and the dialect continuum

pp.:  135 – 151

Normalizing the word forms in the Ayenbite of Inwyt

pp.:  151 – 191

Chaucer’s spelling and the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales

pp.:  191 – 209

WHICH and THE WHICH in Late Middle English: Free variants?

pp.:  209 – 219

Lexical semantics

pp.:  219 – 237

Introduction

pp.:  237 – 239

Robbares and reuares þat ryche men despoilen: Some competing forms

pp.:  239 – 245

Here comes the judge: A small contribution to the study of French input into the vocabulary of the law in Middle English

pp.:  245 – 265

Naming and avoiding naming objects of terror: A case study

pp.:  265 – 287

An application of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage to diachronic semantics

pp.:  287 – 303

Patterns of semantic change in abstract nouns: The case of wit

pp.:  303 – 323

The spatial and temporal meanings of before in Middle English

pp.:  323 – 339

The adjective weary in Middle English structures: A syntactic-semantic study

pp.:  339 – 349

Utterance and discourse meaning

pp.:  349 – 367

Introduction

pp.:  367 – 369

Slanders, slurs and insults on the road to Canterbury: Forms of verbal aggression in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

pp.:  369 – 377

Hir not lettyrd: The use of interjections, pragmatic markers and whan-clauses in The Book of Margery Kempe

pp.:  377 – 399

Whoso thorgh presumpcion ... mysdeme hyt: Chaucer’s poetic adaptation of the medieval “book curse”

pp.:  399 – 419

Sounds, prosody and metre

pp.:  419 – 433

Introduction

pp.:  433 – 435

Middle English prosodic innovations and their testability in verse

pp.:  435 – 439

Old English (non)-palatalised */k/: Competing forces of change at work in the “seek”-verbs

pp.:  439 – 469

Some remarks on the nonprimary contexts for Homorganic Lengthening

pp.:  469 – 483

On the phonetic and phonological interpretation of the reflexes of the Old English diphthongs in the Ayenbite of Inwyt

pp.:  483 – 497

Author index

pp.:  497 – 513

Subject index

pp.:  513 – 517

LastPages

pp.:  517 – 531

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