Use and Development of Middle English : Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Middle English, Cambridge 2008.
Title:
Use and Development of Middle English : Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Middle English, Cambridge 2008.
Author:
Dance, Richard.
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9783653030273
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (305 pages)
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Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature ; v.38
Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Richard Dance and Laura Wright -- Body of evidence: Middle English annotated corpora and dialect atlases: Javier Calle Martín and David Moreno Olalla -- Compilation of an electronic corpus of northern English texts from Old to Early Modern English: Julia Fernández Cuesta, Luisa García García and J. Gabriel Amores Carredano -- Now what? The analysis of Middle English discourse markers and advances in historical dialogue studies: Gabriella Mazzon -- Ssoong on Ifaluk, ANGER and WRATH in Middle English: Historical Semantics as bridge-builder: Hans-Jürgen Diller -- The Poss(essive) Det(erminer) construction in Early Middle English writings: Cynthia L. Allen -- The suffix -ish: Its semantic development and productivity in Middle English: Ewa Ciszek -- Lexical variation in late Middle English: Selection and deselection: María José Carrillo-Linares and Edurne Garrido-Anes -- The prefix y-: grammatical marker or meaningless appendage? A contrastive analysis of selected manuscripts of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: Anna Wojtys -- Gratter cost, more grat zenne, þe more gratter torment: Comparison in Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt: Joanna Esquibel -- Names in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale: Carole Hough -- "Rihht alls an hunnte takeþþ der. /Wiþþ hise æpe racchess": Hunting as a metaphor for proselytizing in the Ormulum: Nils-Lennart Johannesson -- Devotional terms and the use of the Bible in Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ: Mayumi Taguchi -- Metre and punctuation in the Caligula manuscript of Laamon's Brut: Nicolay Yakovlev -- A prototype theory of metrical stress: Lexical categories and ictus in Langland, the Gawain-poet and other alliterative poets: Ad Putter -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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