Beschreibung
The essays discuss the development of English during the Middle Ages. A common theme is variation and variability – dialectal, social, temporal, stylistic and idiolectal – with much work fitting under the heading of historical pragmatics. Some of the essays also shed light on everyday life, customs, culture and religious practices.
Autorenportrait
Richard Dance is Senior Lecturer in Old English Language and Literature at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College.
Laura Wright is Reader in English Language at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.
Inhalt
Contents: Richard Dance/Laura Wright: Introduction – Javier Calle Martin/David Moreno Olalla: Body of evidence: Middle English annotated corpora and dialect atlases – Julia Fernández Cuesta/Luisa García García/J. Gabriel Amores Carredano: Compilation of an electronic corpus of northern English texts from Old to Early Modern English – Gabriella Mazzon:
The analysis of Middle English discourse markers and advances in historical dialogue studies – Hans-Jürgen Diller: Ssoong on Ifaluk,
and
in Middle English: Historical Semantics as bridge-builder – Cynthia Allen: The Poss(essive) Det(erminer) construction in Early Middle English writings – Ewa Ciszek: The suffix -
: Its semantic development and productivity in Middle English – María José Carrillo-Linares/Edurne Garrido-Anes: Lexical variation in late Middle English: Selection and deselection – Anna Wojty?: The prefix y-: grammatical marker or meaningless appendage? A contrastive analysis of selected manuscripts of Chaucer’s
– Joanna Esquibel:
: Comparison in Dan Michel’s
– Carole Hough: Names in Chaucer’s
– Nils-Lennart Johannesson: «Rihht alls an hunnte takeþþ der./Wiþþ hise ?æpe racchess»: Hunting as a metaphor for proselytizing in the
– Mayumi Taguchi: Devotional terms and the use of the Bible in Nicholas Love’s
– Nicolay Yakovlev: Metre and punctuation in the Caligula manuscript of La?amon’s
– Ad Putter: A prototype theory of metrical stress: Lexical categories and ictus in Langland, the
-poet and other alliterative poets.
