Middle English Words for "town": A Study of Changes in a Semantic Field |
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15th-century MSS alliterative poems Alliterative Verse appears applied BOROUGH CHESTER PORT borw British places British referents burh bury/-borough Caligula castle cent century CHESTER PORT Total choice of town CITY BOROUGH CHESTER composed in English corpus Cursor Cursor Mundi Danelaw EETS EETS edition End-rhymed verse examined MSS factors field of town fortified place French frequent town word Havelok Homilies hyperonym hyponym instances of BOROUGH instances of town Ipomadon Kjellmer language Layamon lines loan word Middle English period Middle English texts Modern English MOTE non-alliterative non-British places Non-British Referents non-translations North East North of England North West Midlands occurs Old English Ormulum Oxford percentage of BOROUGH Peterborough Chronicle place-name element places called BOROUGH polysemy prose texts rhyme romance semantic field sense small places South East South West Table THORP toun TOWN CITY BOROUGH translated in Whitelock Trinity urban connotations village Whitelock 1961 words per town þat þet