TY - BOOK AU - Arnovick,Leslie K. AU - Bately,Janet AU - Blake,Norman F. AU - Brinton,Laurel J. AU - Diller,Hans-Jürgen AU - Fabiszak,Małgorzata AU - Horobin,Simon AU - Jucker,Andreas H. AU - Koivisto-Alanko,Päivi AU - Krygier,Marcin AU - Laing,Margaret AU - Lass,Roger AU - Machan,Tim William AU - Markus,Manfred AU - Minkova,Donka AU - Nagucka,Ruta AU - Nevalainen,Terttu AU - Nevanlinna,Saara AU - Pahta,Päivi AU - Raumolin-Brunberg,Helena AU - Rissanen,Matti AU - Ritt,Nikolaus AU - Roberts,Jane AU - Schendl,Herbert AU - Sikorska,Liliana AU - Smith,Jeremy AU - Steponavičius,Albertas AU - Sylvester,Louise AU - Taavitsainen,Irma AU - Wełna,Jerzy AU - Williamson,Keith TI - Placing Middle English in Context T2 - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , SN - 9783110167801 AV - PE524 .P58 2000eb U1 - 427/.02 22 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - English language KW - Middle English, 1100-1500 KW - Language and culture KW - England KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Espoo ‹1997› KW - Kongress KW - Mittelenglisch KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - I-IV --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chronological and social context --; Language periodization and the concept “middle” --; Language and society in twelfth-century England --; Syntactic constraints on code-switching in medieval texts --; Dialect, normalization and corpus-linguistic methodology --; Introduction --; Never the twain shall meet. Early Middle English - the East-West divide --; Standard language in Early Middle English? --; Changing spaces: Linguistic relationships and the dialect continuum --; Normalizing the word forms in The Ayenbite of Inwyt --; Chaucer's spelling and the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales --; WHICH and THE WHICH in Late Middle English: Free variants? --; Lexical semantics --; Introduction --; Robbares and reuares þat ryche men despoilen: Some competing forms --; Here comes the judge: A small contribution to the study of French input into the vocabulary of the law in Middle English --; Naming and avoiding naming objects of terror: A case study --; An application of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage to diachronic semantics --; Patterns of semantic change in abstract nouns: The case of wit --; The spatial and temporal meanings of before in Middle English --; The adjective weary in Middle English structures: A syntactic-semantic study --; Utterance and discourse meaning --; Introduction --; Slanders, slurs and insults on the road to Canterbury: Forms of verbal aggression in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales --; Hir not lettyrd: The use of interjections, pragmatic markers and whan-clauses in The Book of Margery Kempe --; Whoso thorgh presumpcion ... mysdeme hyt: Chaucer's poetic adaptation of the medieval “book curse” --; Sounds, prosody and metre --; Introduction --; Middle English prosodic innovations and their testability in verse --; Old English (non)-palatalised */k/: Competing forces of change at work in the “seek”-verbs --; Some remarks on the nonprimary contexts for Homorganic Lengthening --; On the phonetic and phonological interpretation of the reflexes of the Old English diphthongs in the Ayenbite of Inwyt --; Author index --; Subject index; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869514 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110869514 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110869514/original ER -