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Del 2 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Studies in English Historical Liguistics and Philology
A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
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Del 4 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Middle English from Tongue to Text
Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Middle English: Language and Text, Held at Dublin, Ireland, 1-4 July 1999
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
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Del 1 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Language Contact in the History of English
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
909 kr
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Del 6 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Graphemics and Morphosyntax in the Cely Letters (1472-88)
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
780 kr
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Del 10 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Rethinking Middle English: Linguistic and Literary Approaches
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 093 kr
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Ancrene Wisse - A Four-manuscript Parallel Text
Parts 5-8 with Wordlists
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 162 kr
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Del 13 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Textual and Contextual Studies in Medieval English
Towards the Reunion of Linguistics and Philology
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
831 kr
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Del 16 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Medieval English and Its Heritage
Structure, Meaning and Mechanisms of Change
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
968 kr
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Del 18 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Beowulf and Beyond
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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Del 19 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Studies in Middle English Forms and Meanings
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
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Del 20 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Language of the Peterborough Chronicle
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
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Del 23 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Word Derivation in Early Middle English
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
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No comprehensive study of Early Middle English derivation has been published thus far. This book is an attempt to remedy the situation, at least to give a detailed analysis of one class of suffixes, i.e., seven suffixes forming abstract nouns. They are both of native (-dōm, -s(c)hipe(e), -hōd(e) and –nes(se)) and French origin (-āge, -(e)rīe and -ment). The analysis includes the semantics of the suffixes both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective as well as their productivity and dialect distribution. The study is data-oriented, hence the analysis of linguistic facts is dominating. The analysed material comes from the Dictionary of Old English (A-F) based on the Toronto Corpus of Old English Texts, the Toronto Corpus and the Middle English Dictionary on-line. The unique features of the study are the account of the senses of the suffixes in Old and Early Middle English, and the semantic evolution of the native suffixes from Old to Early Middle English as well as the demonstration that some of the French suffixes were productive already in Early Middle English.
Del 24 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Grammaticalisation Paths of «Have» in English
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
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This book explores the diachronic emergence of the verb have in English in its various grammatical uses. The development of grammatical functions of have is analysed from pragmatic-semantic, morphosyntactic and phonetic angles. Apart from the well-known and formerly studied cases of the rise of perfect and obligative have, the author describes the developments of the had better structure as well as causative have which have not received much scholarly attention thus far. He shows that the first examples of the fully grammaticalised constructions with have generally appear earlier than it is commonly believed. He also offers possible motivations behind the growth of obligative and causative have. This book proves that the changes leading to the rise of new grammatical constructions occur in a specific order: pragmatic-semantic changes precede morphosyntactic changes and phonetic reductions are the last to take place.
Del 33 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of their Texts
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
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The essays in this collection demonstrate that much can be learned from studying features such as word-division, printer’s type, and spelling conventions. These features – termed «accidentals» by W. W. Greg – typically receive little attention when editors discuss how a text became actualized in a particular medieval manuscript or early modern print. To study these features, it is essential to consider a text in the context of the manuscript or print housing it, rather than a modern edition. The texts discussed range in genre from religious (Ælfric’s Letter to Sigeweard, and the Gutenberg and Wycliffe Bibles) and literary (Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales) to scientific (florilegia), while their material bearers range in date from the late Old English period into the Early Modern English one.
Del 26 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Obsolete Scandinavian Loanwords in English
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
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So far, no comprehensive study of the obsolescence of Scandinavian loanwords in English has ever been published. This book remedies that situation, and presents an analysis of the causes of obsolescence of Scandinavian loanwords in English since the 15th century. The study has mainly been based on the Oxford English Dictionary and the Middle English Dictionary. Over 300 loanwords have been selected, grouped into semantic fields and analysed. To account for their disappearance, reasons such as the rivalry of synonyms, the exclusive use in local dialects, the disappearance of the referent as well as rare occurrence or phonological changes were investigated.
Del 36 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Structure of Chaucer’s Ambiguity
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
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This book focuses on ambiguity in Troilus and Criseyde, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s (1343?-1400) representative works. It examines systematically how and why ambiguity is likely to arise. After reviewing previous scholarship on ambiguity in Chaucer, the author proposes a new theoretical framework, «double prism structure», incorporating the most recent findings in the area of semantics, pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics together with medieval rhetoric and allegory. Using this framework the book examines ambiguity due to textual domains, interpersonal domains and linguistic domains. Ambiguity in Chaucer has not been studied in sufficient detail so far. The work opens new vistas for the study of the phenomenon.
Del 39 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Words and Expressions of Emotion in Medieval English
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
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This monograph is a study of words and expressions of emotion found in Old and Middle English texts. Lexical variety, rivalry among synonyms, both native and non-native, and their successive replacement are discussed illustrated with a large number of examples. «Impersonal» and reflexive constructions, which give peculiar features to medieval texts, are examined, focusing on basic verbs of emotion. Words found in the Seven Deadly Sins and the contrasting use of the genitive and the of-phrase in God’s love and the love of God are treated as typical medieval themes. Appendices are added to illustrate the variant forms of these words and expressions in the versions of the Gospels and the Psalter, together with formulaic expressions of emotion in Old English poetry.
Del 38 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Use and Development of Middle English
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Middle English, Cambridge 2008
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
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The fourteen essays presented here discuss the development of English during the Middle English period: how the language developed from Old English, linguistic innovations, and the loss and abandonment of certain words and constructions. 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 during the period. Collectively, the essays make it clear that searchable computerized corpora have become indispensible tools of the discipline, with several contributors describing new corpora created to their own specifications.
Del 35 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and Beyond
Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Wełna on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
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The volume, inspired by Professor Wełna’s life-long studies in historical linguistics, brings together scholars researching topics in various fields of the history of the English language. Nine chapters devoted to different linguistic disciplines gather articles covering sound and spelling changes, historical word-formation processes, selected semantic domains, and manuscript variants. In the broader perspective the book addresses the history of linguistic thought with authors incorporating different tools of analysis in historical research.
Del 37 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Change in Life, Change in Language
A Semantic Approach to the History of English
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
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This book provides the reader with a description of the semantic change that took place over two periods of the history of English language: Middle English and Early Modern English. In view of the fact that semantic change is the type of change by which the relationship between language and society can be traced best, notes on the socio-historical background of the period have been included. They are followed by the analysis of language change in general in which some of the literature on the topic is reviewed and the author’s interpretation of change as being caused by external factors is made clear. For this reason, terminology and concepts relating to the field of socio-historical linguistics have been incorporated in the analysis. The core of the work is semantic change and the linguistic study of vocabulary items which belong to the field of person-rank nouns. The results of the analysis indicate a tendency towards specialisation in the meaning of lexical categories which runs parallel to specialisation in society.
Del 41 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Recording English, Researching English, Transforming English
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
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This book presents new research results in English historical linguistics. Section I deals with sounds and spellings, e.g. the role of writing in language change, Pre-Old English sound changes and their reflection in runic inscriptions – plus the first complete list of OE runic inscriptions – and with velar fricatives in Middle English. Section II contains studies on words and phrases (e.g. the OE terms for the chain-mail coat), shell nouns, and secondary agent constructions. Section III highlights the developments of because, relative clauses, impersonal and passive constructions. Section IV analyzes the role of dialects in literature (e.g. 16th and 18th centuries). Section V sheds light on the use of early literature by later authors (e.g. J.R.R. Tolkien) and on Chinese translations of Beowulf.
Del 45 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Synonyms of «Fallen Woman» in the History of the English Language
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
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This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up to Early Modern English. It focuses on linguistic mechanisms which are at work in the formation of euphemisms and dysphemisms semantically linked to the conceptual category Fallen Woman. Additionally, the book highlights the historical and cultural variations in the approach to sex relations in different parts of the world and in different epochs. The cognitive methodological apparatus is the core of the analytical part of the work. The results of the axiologically oriented analysis point to the prevailing tendency of female-specific lexical items to undergo the process of pejoration with the passage of time.
Del 44 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Studies in Middle English
Words, Forms, Senses and Texts
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
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This collection of papers is published within a series of post-conference volumes to reflect the state-of-the-art in the field of linguistic and literary research into Middle English. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a more particular interest in the broad area of sense-form relationships and text studies of the period which rely on the traditional as well as the rapidly expanding searchable resources. They concern language, literature and manuscripts studies over a wide choice of disciplines and put a notable emphasis on up-to-date tools and methodologies to provide far-fetched searches of corpora and dictionaries that allow for a new quality of token verification and theoretical generalizations.
Del 43 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Aspectual Prefixes in Early English
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
779 kr
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This book primarily examines verbal prefixes expressing aspectuality in the Old and Middle English periods, but it also takes a look at the post-verbal particles in the subsequent periods of English. Verbal prefixes are also known as preverbs such as ge- in the Old English verb gegladian «cheer up» or ā- in the Old English verb āstreccan «stretch out». Prefixed verbs in Old English are said to be the functional equivalents and predecessors of phrasal verbs in Modern English. One of the aims of the research presented in this book was to consider how no longer productive Old English verbal prefixes such as ge-, ā- and for- were used in the past to express verbal aspect. In this study two avenues of research converge, one covering aspect, the other covering verbal prefixes and particles.
Del 46 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Culinary verbs in Middle English
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
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This study examines the range of culinary verbs found in the English culinary recipes of the 14th and 15th centuries. Altogether over 1500 recipes have been collected and over 100 verbs were selected for the research. They have been divided into three major semantic groups, i.e. verbs of cooking, cutting, and preparing. The analysis comprises such aspects as the origin of the verbs, rivalry of synonyms, context of usage and other criteria.
Del 47 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Approaches to Middle English
Variation, Contact and Change
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murcia in 2013. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a particular interest in multilingualism, multidialectalism and language contact in medieval England, together with other more linguistically-oriented approaches on the phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics and pragmatics of Middle English. The volume gives a specialized stance on various aspects of the Middle English language and reveals how the interdisciplinary confluence of different approaches can shed light on manifold evidences of variation, contact and change in the period.
Del 48 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
«Sawles Warde» and the Wooing Group
Parallel Texts with Notes and Wordlists
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
646 kr
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This volume completes the first uniform edition of the Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse Group. It contains Sawles Warde from the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group of lyrical meditations. These works, originally written for devout women, are of unusual literary and linguistic interest. The readings of all the manuscripts are printed in parallel for easy comparison, presenting the various versions of the Wooing Group in a more cohesive form than in existing editions. Paleographical and textual notes are provided, along with frequency wordlists and a selection of notes from an unpublished edition by E. J. Dobson.
Del 49 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Essays and Studies in Middle English
9th International Conference on Middle English, Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, 2015
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
876 kr
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This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Middle English held at Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna (Philological School of Higher Education) in Wrocław, Poland, from April 30 to May 3, 2015. The contributors cover a wide range of topics in the area of language and literature. The linguistic papers constitute the majority of contributions and focus on problems from phonology to grammar, semantics and pragmatics. The literary contributions discuss various aspects of Middle English texts.
Del 50 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Middle English Prepositions and Adverbs with the Prefix «be-» in Prose Texts
A Study in Their Semantics, Dialectology and Frequency
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
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This book offers the first comprehensive study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs combining the prefix «be-» with a preposition, an adverb or a numeral recorded in prose texts. Six best established lexemes, i.e., «before, beyond, behind, beneath, between» and «betwixt» are analysed. The investigated aspects include the semantics of the prepositions and adverbs, their dialectal and textual distribution as well as their frequency of use viewed both from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The study draws on the linguistic data retrieved from a collection of specially selected complete prose texts from the «Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose». The description of the obtained results is enhanced with numerous tables and figures.
Del 51 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Non-Surviving Preterite-Present Verbs in English
The Demise of *dugan, munan, *-nugan, *þurfan, and unnan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
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Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of their distribution in Old and Middle English. The subsequent comparison of the forms and uses of the preterite-presents in the two periods allows the author to suggest the reasons for their elimination from the language. The discussion focuses on phonological and morphological changes the verbs underwent as well as on the syntactic structures they appeared in. Yet, the study does not ignore factors of extra-linguistic nature such as genres in which the verbs were frequently found and the potential rivalry with other items of native and foreign origin.