E-raamat: Placing Middle English in Context

Preface v Introduction 1(6) Irma Taavitsainen Terttu Nevalainen Paivi Pahta Matti Rissanen Chronological and social context Language periodization and the concept ``middle 7(36) Roger Lass Language and society in twelfth-century England 43(24) Tim William Machan Syntactic constraints on code-switching in medieval texts 67(22) Herbert Schendl Dialect, normalization and corpus-linguistic methodology Introduction 89(8) Norman F. Blake Never the twain shall meet Early Middle English - The East-West divide 97(28) Margaret Laing Standard language in Early Middle English? 125(16) Jeremy Smith Changing spaces: Linguistic relationships and the dialect continuum 141(40) Keith Williamson Normalizing the word forms in the Ayenbite of Inwyt 181(18) Manfred Markus Chaucers spelling and the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales 199(10) Simon Horobin Which and The Which in Late Middle English: Free variants? 209(20) Helena Raumolin-Brunberg Lexical semantics Introduction 229(6) Hans-Jurgen Diller Robbares and reuares pat ryche men despoilen: Some competing forms 235(20) Jane Roberts Here comes the judge: A small contribution to the study of French input into the vocabulary of the law in Middle English 255(22) Janet Bately Naming and avoiding naming objects of terror: A case study 277(16) Louise Sylvester An application of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage to diachronic semantics 293(20) Malgorzata Fabiszak Patterns of semantic change in abstract nouns: The case of wit 313(16) Paivi Koivisto-Alanko The spatial and temporal meanings of before in Middle English 329(10) Ruta Nagucka The adjective weary in Middle English structures: A syntactic-semantic study 339(22) Saara Nevanlinna Utterance and discourse meaning Introduction 361(8) Laurel Brinton Slanders, slurs and insults on the road to Canterbury: Forms of verbal aggression in Chaucers Canterbury Tales 369(22) Andreas H. Jucker Hir not lettyrd: The use of interjections, pragmatic markers and whan-clauses in The Book of Margery Kempe 391(20) Liliana Sikorska Whose thorgh presumpcion ... mysdeme hyt: Chaucers poetic adaptation of the medieval ``book curse 411(16) Leslie Arnovick Sounds, prosody and metre Introduction 427(4) Nikolaus Ritt Middle English prosodic innovations and their testability in verse 431(30) Donka Minkova Old English (non)-palatalised */k/: Competing forces of change at work in the ``seek-verbs 461(14) Marcin Krygier Some remarks on the nonprimary contexts for Homorganic Lengthening 475(14) Jerzy Welna On the phonetic and phonological interpretation of the reflexes of the Old English diphthongs in the Ayenbite of Inwyt 489(16) Albertas Steponavicius Author index 505(4) Subject index 509