Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Aim of the present volume -- 2. Overview of the present volume -- 2.1 Corpus linguistics today and tomorrow -- 2.2 Aspects of language change -- 2.3 Middle and Modern English case studies -- 2.4 Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter -- References -- Part I. Corpus linguistics today and tomorrow -- Can't see the wood for the trees? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpora of Late Modern English -- 3. The progressive -- 4. "Prescriptive" grammars -- 5. Late Modern English phonology: The Cinderella of Cinderellas? -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Spelling variation in Middle English manuscripts -- 1. The problem of spelling research in Middle English and the Wycliffe Corpus -- 1.1 Spelling in Middle English -- 1.2 The Wycliffe Corpus -- 2. Spelling variation in manuscripts -- 2.1 Integration of manuscripts: Issues -- 2.2 General variables in manuscripts -- 2.3 More specific spelling variation in manuscripts -- 3. Spelling variation and lexical research -- 4. Conclusion: An integrated Middle English spelling research corpus -- List of manuscripts used in illustrations -- References -- Part II. Aspects of language change -- The development of compound numerals in English Biblical translations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpora investigated -- 3. Translation methods of compound numerals -- 3.1 Compound numerals in the Hebrew Old Testament and the Four Greek Gospels -- 3.2 Middle and modern types in English Bibles -- 4. Conclusion -- Corpora investigated -- References -- The complements of causative make in Late Middle English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three different forms of complements -- 3. Linguistic conditions related to the choice of complement forms -- 3.1 Previous studies.

3.2 Elements between the matrix verb and the complement -- 3.3 The make believe type -- 3.4 Coordination of complements -- 3.5 Infinitives of different verbs -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- The pragmaticalization and intensification of verily, truly and really -- 1. Introduction and aims -- 2. Corpus analysis and theoretical framework -- 3. Present-day meanings: Adverbial classification -- 4. Semantic-pragmatic developments of verily, truly and really -- 4.1 Verily, verily, I say unto thee -- 4.2 I tell you truly... -- 4.3 The late development of really -- 5. Conclusions and theoretical implications -- Online resources and dictionaries -- References -- Concept-driven semasiology and onomasiology of CLERGY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Description of the lexical material -- 3. Corpus description and search procedure -- 4. Results and discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- Corpus -- Dictionaries -- References -- ANGER and TĒNE in Middle English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evidence of the Middle English Dictionary lemmas -- 3. The evidence of the Innsbruck Prose Corpus and the MiddleEnglish Dictionary quotations: Macro-contexts -- 4. Micro-contexts -- 4.1 Parts of speech and word formation -- 4.2 Syntactic contexts -- 5. Conclusion and interpretation -- References -- Appendix -- Part III. Middle and Modern English case studies -- The subjunctive vs. modal auxiliaries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and method -- 2.1 Distinctive subjunctives and modal auxiliaries in Late Middle English -- 2.2 Method -- 2.3 Materials -- 3. Previous studies -- 4. Analysis of data -- 4.1 Occurrence and frequency -- 4.2 Varieties of verbs -- 4.3 Varieties of modals -- 4.4 Verbs, nouns and adjectives introducing lest-clauses -- 5. Text categories -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.2 Type 1 -- 5.3 Type 2 -- 5.4 Type 3 -- 5.5 Differences between written and spoken texts -- 6. Conclusion -- References.

Appendix -- Some notes on the distribution of the quantifier all in Middle English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic positions of the Middle English quantifier all -- 2.1 All with a noun phrase -- 2.2 All with pronoun -- 2.3 Floating quantifier -- 3. Word order of all and subject pronoun -- 3.1 Dialect and date -- 3.2 Grammatical person -- 3.3 Clause type -- 4. Syntactic position of all -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Interjections in Middle English -- 1. What are interjections? -- 2. Research on interjections in Middle English -- 3. Chaucer's "The Reeve's Tale" -- 4. Inventory of interjections in "The Reeve's Tale" -- 5. Characterization of figures -- 6. Phonologic and morphologic aspects -- 7. Position within the sentence -- 8. Semantic and pragmatic aspects -- 9. Etymology -- 10. Chaucer's interjections in "The Reeve's Tale" and their frequency in Middle English -- 11. Chaucerian and Middle English interjections not attested in "The Reeve's Tale" -- Primary sources -- Dictionaries, concordances, etc. -- References -- Why and what in Early Modern English drama -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Why and what -- 4. Empirical analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Colloquialization and not-contraction in nineteenth-century English -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Aim and scope -- 1.2 Not-contraction and colloquialization in Late Modern and Present-day English -- 2. Material and data -- 2.1 Material -- 2.2 Data -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Part IV. Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter -- The complexity and diversity of the words in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The complexity of (historical) dialect as represented by EDD Online -- 3. Structural complexity of EDD entries -- 4. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Etymology in the English Dialect Dictionary.

1. Introduction -- 2. Study sample -- 3. Status of etymology in the EDD -- 4. Presentation and types of information -- 5. Comparison with other sources -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Towards an understanding of Joseph Wright's sources -- 1. Introduction -- 2. EDD sources: A general overview -- 3. Bishop White Kennett and his glossary to Parochial Antiquities (1695) -- 4. Kennett's glossary and the EDD -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- The importance of being Janus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. North vs. South as dialects -- 3. Isoglosses and their limits -- 4. Dialect connections -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- ... ging uns der ganze alte Dialektbegriff in eine Illusion auf -- 1. Prologue: Alois Brandl's disappointment -- 2. The diffusion of pidgins and creoles: A case of globalization of vernacular features -- 3. World Non-Standard English (WNSE) -- References -- Index.