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The Influence of Text Type on Word Order of Old Germanic Languages
The book examines the word order of two Old Germanic languages, Old English and Old High German, using a corpus containing samples of three text types: poetry, original prose and …
In a Manner Morall Playe: Social Ideologies in English Moralities and Interludes (1350-1517)
The Beginnings of Standardization
Developing a written standard is one of the most fundamental institutional achievements of a society. On the threshold to the Modern Era the vernaculars massively gained ground in …
Foreign Influences on Medieval English
The volume is a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English held in Warsaw on 12-13 December 2009 and organized by the …
Aspects of Medieval English Language and Literature
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 …
Emotions of Amazement in Old English Hagiography
This monograph examines three aesthetic emotions in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints. Drawing on recent research on emotional communities, this research combines methods from Cognitive …
Obsolete Scandinavian Loanwords in English
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 …
Culinary verbs in Middle English
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 …
Historical Englishes in Varieties of Texts and Contexts
This volume is a selection of papers read at the second international conference of the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics (SHELL) held at Nagoya University, …
Linguistic Variation in the Ancrene Wisse, Katherine Group and Wooing Group
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 …
Medieval English and Its Heritage
Word Derivation in Early Middle English
No comprehensive study of Early Middle English derivation has been published thus far. This book is an attempt to remedy the situation, at least to give a detailed analysis of one …