Approaches to Middle English : variation, contact and change

English language Historical linguistics Multilingualism sähkökirjat LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General Conference papers and proceedings History
Peter Lang
2015
EISBN 9783653049022
Cover; Contents; Introduction (J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre and Javier Calle-Martin); Part 1: Languages in contact and variation in Middle English, multilingualism and multidialectism; Language contact and code-switching in multilingual late medieval England (Herbert Schendl); On medieval wills and the rise of written monolingual English (Laura Wright); Que ma langue lor est salvaige. The status of French in medieval England: An attitude study (Melanie Borchers); The competition between purveyen and providen in Late Middle English (Rafał Molencki)
Final -e in Gower's and Chaucer's monosyllabic premodifying adjectives. A grammatical/metrical analysis (Gyöngyi Werthmüller)On the V2-type that disappears in ME (María Francisca Buys and Concha Castillo); Part 3: Middle English semantics andpragmatics; The status of may in Middle English medical writing. Evidence from Middle English Medical Texts and the Málaga Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific Prose (Francisco Alonso-Almeida, Maureen Mulligan, Elena Quintana-Toledo)
Middle English voiced fricatives and the argument from borrowing (Raymond Hickey)Radical word order change by substratal causation: English versus German (Theo Vennemann); Late medieval dialectal and obsolescent spellings in the sixteenth-century editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (Hanna Rutkowska); Two Middle English texts in the light of the Málaga POS Tagger of Middle English (Laura Esteban-Segura); Part 2: Middle English morphology and syntax; s-Pluralisation in Early Middle English and word frequency (Ryuichi Hotta)
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8<SUP>th</SUP> 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 th.
Final -e in Gower's and Chaucer's monosyllabic premodifying adjectives. A grammatical/metrical analysis (Gyöngyi Werthmüller)On the V2-type that disappears in ME (María Francisca Buys and Concha Castillo); Part 3: Middle English semantics andpragmatics; The status of may in Middle English medical writing. Evidence from Middle English Medical Texts and the Málaga Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific Prose (Francisco Alonso-Almeida, Maureen Mulligan, Elena Quintana-Toledo)
Middle English voiced fricatives and the argument from borrowing (Raymond Hickey)Radical word order change by substratal causation: English versus German (Theo Vennemann); Late medieval dialectal and obsolescent spellings in the sixteenth-century editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (Hanna Rutkowska); Two Middle English texts in the light of the Málaga POS Tagger of Middle English (Laura Esteban-Segura); Part 2: Middle English morphology and syntax; s-Pluralisation in Early Middle English and word frequency (Ryuichi Hotta)
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8<SUP>th</SUP> 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 th.
