Placing Middle English in ContextIrma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, Matti Rissanen The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. |
Contents
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Syntactic constraints on codeswitching in medieval texts | 57 |
Dialect normalization and corpuslinguistic methodology | 87 |
Introduction | 89 |
Never the twain shall meet Early Middle English The EastWest divide | 97 |
An application of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage to diachronic semantics | 293 |
The case of wit | 313 |
The spatial and temporal meanings of before in Middle English | 329 |
A syntacticsemantic study | 339 |
Utterance and discourse meaning | 357 |
Introduction | 359 |
Forms of verbal aggression in Chaucers Canterbury Tales | 367 |
The use of interjections pragmatic markers and whanclauses in The Book of Margery Kempe | 389 |
Standard language in Early Middle English? | 125 |
Linguistic relationships and the dialect continuum | 141 |
Normalizing the word forms in the Ayenbite of Inwyt | 181 |
Chaucers spelling and the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales | 199 |
Free variants? | 209 |
Lexical semantics | 227 |
Introduction | 229 |
Some competing forms | 235 |
A small contribution to the study of French input into the vocabulary of the law in Middle English | 255 |
A case study | 277 |
Chaucers poetic adaptation of the medieval book curse | 409 |
Sounds prosody and metre | 423 |
Introduction | 425 |
Middle English prosodic innovations and their testability in verse | 429 |
Competing forces of change at work in the seekverbs | 459 |
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AB language Ancrene Ancrene Wisse assemblage attested Ayenbite Benskin book curse Cambridge Canterbury Canterbury Tales Chaucer code-switching COGNITION compFT context court defined definition diachronic dialect continuum Dictionary difficult diphthongs discourse Early English Text early Middle English English Text Society example field fifteenth century figures final find first fit forms French function Germanic grammaticalization Helsinki Helsinki Corpus Homorganic influence insults Kentish LALME language contact Late Middle English Latin lexical Linguistic Atlas London manuscripts Margery Kempe meaning medieval Middle English period Middle English texts Midlands Modern English multilingualism Natural Semantic Metalanguage normalization noun Old English oral Ormulum Oxford University Press past participle patterns prefix prepositional prosodic prototypical reaflac reference reflect reflexes rhyme scribes semantic sense significant specific spelling square stress structure syntactic Table Tale textual tion Troilus and Criseyde variation velar verb verse vowel weary wery words written