Ulrike Krischke received her PhD in English Historical Linguistics and Literature of the Middle Ages at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 2010. Since 2006, she has been a lecturer and research assistant at the Department of English and American Studies of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.

• Contents: Old English complex plant names – Taxon, natural kind term, lexeme? – Plant world, plant names and the Anglo-Saxon medico-botanical texts – Folk taxonomy and scientific taxonomy – Morphology and word-formation – Semantics – Associative relations – Motivations – Diachronic stratification and the effects of language contact – Latin loan influence.

Ulrike Krischke received her PhD in English Historical Linguistics and Literature of the Middle Ages at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 2010. Since 2006, she has been a lecturer and research assistant at the Department of English and American Studies of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.

• Contents: Old English complex plant names – Taxon, natural kind term, lexeme? – Plant world, plant names and the Anglo-Saxon medico-botanical texts – Folk taxonomy and scientific taxonomy – Morphology and word-formation – Semantics – Associative relations – Motivations – Diachronic stratification and the effects of language contact – Latin loan influence.

Ulrike Krischke received her PhD in English Historical Linguistics and Literature of the Middle Ages at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 2010. Since 2006, she has been a lecturer and research assistant at the Department of English and American Studies of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.

• Contents: Old English complex plant names – Taxon, natural kind term, lexeme? – Plant world, plant names and the Anglo-Saxon medico-botanical texts – Folk taxonomy and scientific taxonomy – Morphology and word-formation – Semantics – Associative relations – Motivations – Diachronic stratification and the effects of language contact – Latin loan influence.