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Language Contact in the History of English
2 nd , revised edition
Av Dieter Kastovsky, Arthur Mettinger
Häftad, 2003
859 kr
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More than any other European language English has been shaped by its contacts with other languages such as Celtic, Latin, Scandinavian and French. This is true not only of the vocabulary, but also of morphology and even phonology and syntax. But also the contact between different varieties of …
Graphemics and Morphosyntax in the «Cely Letters» (1472–88)
Av Hanna Rutkowska, Jacek Fisiak
Häftad, 2003
824 kr
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This monograph provides a detailed description of the language of the Cely Letters, the earliest extant collection of commercial correspondence in English (1472-88). The authors of the letters in question are English wool merchants, members of the middle class. The focus of this corpus-based …
Rethinking Middle English
Linguistic and Literary Approaches
Av Nikolaus Ritt, Herbert Schendl
Häftad, 2004
1155 kr
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This volume presents Middle English studies as a modern discipline which unites linguistics, literature, philology, the history of ideas, textual studies including recent developments in the study of text types and genres, as well as the sociohistorical perspective. This large variety of both …
Ancrene Wisse - A Four-manuscript Parallel Text
Parts 5-8 with Wordlists
Häftad, 2005
1203 kr
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The Ancrene Wisse is perhaps the most notable monument of Middle English prose, its influence evident from the time of its composition in the early thirteenth century until at least the Reformation. As the only Early Middle English work of considerable length to survive in more than two copies, it …
Textual and Contextual Studies in Medieval English
Towards the Reunion of Linguistics and Philology
Häftad, 2006
878 kr
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This collection of papers is a product of the first international conference of the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics (SHELL) held at Chiba University, Japan, in September 2005. The society aims at the reunion of linguistics and philology. The papers discuss current issues in …
Medieval English and its Heritage
Structure, Meaning and Mechanisms of Change
Av Nikolaus Ritt, Herbert Schendl m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
962 kr
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The volume features new work in English historical linguistics. It focuses on Medieval Englishes, but also discusses how processes originating there continued to unfold in later stages of linguistic evolution. In language internal terms, it deals with phonological, morphological, lexical and …
«Beowulf» and Beyond
Häftad, 2006
1105 kr
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Beowulf and Beyond is a collection of papers mainly on Medieval English (i.e. Old and Middle English) language, literature and culture, often using comparative and interdisciplinary approaches. It features major authors and texts such as Beowulf, Chaucer, the Wyclif Bible, Margery Kempe, and …
Language of the Peterborough Chronicle
Av Alexander Bergs, Janne Skaffari
Häftad, 2007
851 kr
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This book is the first (linguistic) publication which exclusively focuses on one of the most famous and important documents in the history of English: the Early Middle English ‘Peterborough Chronicle’. This book contains 10 original and hitherto unpublished papers which deal with phonological, …
Grammaticalisation Paths of «Have» in English
Inbunden, 2010
1020 kr
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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 …
Obsolete Scandinavian Loanwords in English
Inbunden, 2010
942 kr
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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 …
Words and Expressions of Emotion in Medieval English
Inbunden, 2013
951 kr
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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 …
Use and Development of Middle English
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Middle English, Cambridge 2008
Av Richard Dance, Laura Wright
Inbunden, 2013
920 kr
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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, …
Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and Beyond
Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Wełna on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday
Av Joanna Esquibel, Anna Wojtys
Inbunden, 2012
759 kr
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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, …
Change in Life, Change in Language
A Semantic Approach to the History of English
Inbunden, 2013
516 kr
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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 …
Recording English, Researching English, Transforming English
Av Hans Sauer, Gaby Waxenberger
Inbunden, 2013
1025 kr
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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 …
Synonyms of «Fallen Woman» in the History of the English Language
Av Bozena Duda
Inbunden, 2014
764 kr
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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 …
Studies in Middle English
Words, Forms, Senses and Texts
Inbunden, 2014
1023 kr
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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 …
Aspectual Prefixes in Early English
Av Vlatko Broz
Inbunden, 2014
823 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» …
Culinary verbs in Middle English
Inbunden, 2014
755 kr
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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, …
Approaches to Middle English
Variation, Contact and Change
Av Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Javier Calle-Martín
Inbunden, 2015
964 kr
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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 …
«Sawles Warde» and the Wooing Group
Parallel Texts with Notes and Wordlists
Av Harumi Tanabe, John Scahill
Inbunden, 2015
682 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 …
Essays and Studies in Middle English
9th International Conference on Middle English, Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, 2015
Av Jacek Fisiak, Magdalena Bator
Inbunden, 2017
926 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 …
Middle English Prepositions and Adverbs with the Prefix «be-» in Prose Texts
A Study in Their Semantics, Dialectology and Frequency
Av Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska, Jacek Fisiak
Inbunden, 2017
823 kr
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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 …
Non-Surviving Preterite-Present Verbs in English
The Demise of *dugan, munan, *-nugan, *þurfan, and unnan
Inbunden, 2017
813 kr
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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 …
Middle English Names of Medical Preparations
Towards a Standard Medical Terminology
Av Marta Sylwanowicz, Jacek Fisiak
Inbunden, 2018
702 kr
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This study provides a comprehensive examination of Middle English names of medical preparations found in the available medical works produced in the 14th and 15th centuries, and in a number of dictionaries. Altogether over 1600 references to medicaments have been collected. They have been divided …
Periphrases in Medieval English
Av Michiko Ogura, Jacek Fisiak
Inbunden, 2018
462 kr
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This monograph is one of the studies on English verb syntax, especially focusing on its changes in Old and Middle English periods. Investigations have been made so far by the author on ‘impersonal’ verbs, reflexive constructions, verbs of motion, verbs of emotion, and other verbs in various …
Aspects of Medieval English Language and Literature
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics
Inbunden, 2019
931 kr
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This volume is a collection of papers read at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds in 2017, in two sessions organized by the Institute of English Studies at the University of London and four sessions organized by the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics. Contributions …
Current Explorations in Middle English
Selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME), University of Stavanger, Norway, 2017
Av Merja Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
941 kr
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This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Middle English held at the University of Stavanger, Norway from 31 May to 2 June 2017. The collection bridges the gap between traditional ‘linguistic’ and ‘literary’ topics and provides a holistic view of current …
Linguistic Variation in the Ancrene Wisse, Katherine Group and Wooing Group
Essays Celebrating the Completion of the Parallel Text Edition
Inbunden, 2019
690 kr
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Among thirteenth-century English devotional writings, the «Ancrene Wisse», the Katherine Group and the Wooing Group are central to debate about a putative standardised English, the AB Language. This book consists of articles investigating the manuscripts, textual transmission, punctuation, …
Of ye Olde Englisch Langage and Textes: New Perspectives on Old and Middle English Language and Literature
Av Rodrigo Pérez Lorido, Carlos Prado Alonso m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
843 kr
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This book provides new insights on different aspects of Old and Middle Eng-lish language and literature, presenting state-of-the-art analyses of linguistic phenomena and literary developments in those periods and opening up new directions for future work in the field. The volume tackles aspects of …
