Placing Middle English in Context
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Placing Middle English in Context

  1. 528 pages
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Placing Middle English in Context

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Yes, you can access Placing Middle English in Context by Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, Matti Rissanen, Irma Taavitsainen,Terttu Nevalainen,Päivi Pahta,Matti Rissanen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Grammar & Punctuation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

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