Studies in Middle English Linguistics

Jacek Fisiak

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110152425
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110814194
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Preface
• The development of an “impersonal” verb in Middle English: The case of behoove
• Double trouble: Geminate versus simplex graphs in the Ormulum
• Language and style in additions to The Canterbury Tales
• The Middle English creolization hypothesis revisited
• Infinitive marking in Late Middle English: Transitivity and changes in the English system of case
• From syntax to discourse: The function of object-verb order in Late Middle English
• Words in -ate and the history of English stress
• Assessing the relative status of languages in medieval Ireland
• Using the future to predict the past: Old English dialectology in the light of Middle English place-names
• When did Middle English begin? Later than you think!
• The Old English Anglian/Saxon boundary revisited
• Stress, survival and change: Old to Middle English
• Against the emergence of the nuclear stress rule in Middle English
• #NAME?
• Concessive clauses in Chaucer’s prose
• Middle English nonrestrictive expository apposition with an explicit marker
• On the beginning and development of the begin to construction
• The Peterborough Chronicle diphthongs
• Middle English phonetics: A systematic survey including notes on Irish and Welsh loanwords
• Quasi-impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English
• Like father (un)like son: A sociolinguistic approach to the language of the Cely family
• Whatever happened to the Middle English indefinite pronouns?
• Mutation, variation and selection in phonological evolution: A sketch based on the case of Late Middle English a > au/_l{C/#}
• Handmade tales: The implications of linguistic variation in two early manuscripts of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
• Middle (and Old) English prerequisites for the Great Vowel Shift
• Exclamations in Late Middle English
• Index of names
• Index of subjects