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This monograph offers an analysis of the lexical domain of beauty and other additional lexical domains that are figuratively used to refer to beauty, highlighting their central role in the Anglo-Saxon formulaic style.

This collection of papers on Middle English provides an overview of current research dealing with manuscripts, texts and linguistic forms and patterns from a range of perspectives and methodologies. The papers are organized under three main headings: "Textual Interlacing," "Borrowing and the Lexicon," and "Language at Different Levels."

The book provides the first comprehensive study of love and ethics in late medieval poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer, James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. It shows how the ideas on love, virtue, and human well-being were disseminated between England and Scotland and adjusted to meet cultural changes.

This collection of articles deals with the manuscripts, textual transmission, punctuation, spelling, grammar and vocabulary of the "Ancrene Wisse", the Katherine Group and the Wooing Group. A close comparison based on parallel texts substantiates detailed findings about linguistic variation and the role of scribes.

The thirteen articles in this volume present a multidisciplinar approach to Old and Middle English language and literature, offering cutting-edge perspectives on different aspects of linguistic and literary developments in those periods and rendering an up-to-date overview of the work on English diachronic linguistics and literary analysis today.

This collection of papers on Middle English provides an overview of current research dealing with manuscripts, texts and linguistic forms from a range of perspectives. The papers are organized under four main headings: The transmission of Middle English texts, Syntax and morphology, Genre and discourse and Textual afterlives.

This volume is a collection of papers read at the Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2017, in two sessions organized by the Institute of English Studies at the University of London and four sessions by the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics. Topics include poetry, prose, interlinear glosses, syntax, lexicology, etc.

This study provides a comprehensive examination of Middle English names of medical preparations found in the available medical works produced in the 14th and 15th centuries. Particular attention is paid to the origin of the terms, their structure, and their distribution and presentation in texts representing different traditions of medical writing.

The author has investigated verbs, e.g. 'impersonal' verbs, reflexive verbs, verbs of motion, verbs of emotion, etc. in her books and articles, as well as syntax with modal auxiliaries and other auxiliaries used for perfective, passive, hortative, etc. This monograph summarises her series of investigations under the term of "periphrases".

The book is a study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs with the prefix "be-" in prose texts. "Before, beyond, behind, beneath, between" and "betwixt" are analysed for the semantics, textual and dialectal distribution and frequency, synchronic and diachronic. The study draws on full texts from the "Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose".

Based on historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of the forms and uses of these verbs in Old and Middle English, which, when compared, allow the author to suggest the reasons for their elimination from the language.

The volume is a selection of papers on a wide range of topics in the area of medieval language and literature. The linguistic papers cover a wide range of problems from phonology to grammar, semantics and pragmatics. The literary papers discuss various aspects of Middle English texts.

A diplomatic edition of the Early Middle English Sawles Warde and Wooing Group, giving parallel texts of all the manuscripts. Textual and paleographic notes are provided, along with frequency wordlists for two versions of Sawles Warde and all four manuscripts of the Wooing texts. This completes a uniform edition of the Ancrene Wisse Group.

The papers in this volume embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with particular interest in multilingualism, multidialectalism and language contact in medieval England. The book gives a specialized stance on language change in Middle English at different levels: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

This study examines the range of culinary verbs found in the English culinary recipes of the 14th and 15th centuries. Over 1500 recipes and 100 verbs have been analyzed. They have been divided into three major groups: cooking, cutting, and preparing. Such aspects as their origin, rivalry of synonyms, contexts etc. have been taken into consideration.

This volume contains papers on historical linguistics, historical syntax in Old, Middle, Modern and American English, a survey on medieval manuscripts, semantic and lexical changes, morphological changes, and discussions on medieval literature.

This book examines prefixes expressing aspectuality in early English, such as ge- in the Old English verb gegladian "cheer up" or a- in the verb astreccan "stretch out", providing an analysis of the three most frequent prefixes (ge-, a- and for-). These prefixes show many inflectional properties, as well as typical features of grammaticalization.

This work focuses on analysing linguistic mechanisms (structural, semantic, rhetorical) used in the formation of historical synonyms of prostitute in English. It also accounts for historical and cultural variations in the approach to sex relations. The analysis comprises synonyms dating from Old English up to Early Modern English.

This book is on English historical linguistics. It deals with the history of sounds and spellings (e.g. Old English runes), words and phrases, conjunctions, relative clauses, impersonal and passive constructions. It sheds light on the use of English dialects in literature, the importance of J.R.R. Tolkien, and Chinese translations of Beowulf.

This book provides the reader with a description of the semantic change that took place over two periods of the history of English language: Middle English and Early Modern English. The results of the analysis indicate a tendency towards specialisation in the meaning of lexical categories which runs parallel to specialisation in society.

The volume brings together scholars researching topics in various fields of the history of the English language. The book addresses the history of linguistic thought with nine chapters devoted to different linguistic disciplines i.e. sound and spelling changes, historical word-formation processes, selected semantic domains, and manuscript variants.

The essays discuss the development of English during the Middle Ages. 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.

This study contains various words and expressions of emotion found in Old and Middle English texts. Words and expressions of emotion in medieval English are discussed lexically, semantically and syntactically. Texts are examined to find appropriate examples to illustrate usage, rivalry among synonyms, constructions peculiar to Old and Middle English.

This book focuses on ambiguity in Troilus and Criseyde, one of Geoffrey Chaucer's (1343?-1400) representative works. It examines systematically how and why ambiguity is likely to arise. Ambiguity in Chaucer has not been studied in sufficient detail so far. The work opens new vistas for the study of the phenomenon.

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Foreign Influences on Medieval English

Presents an analysis of the causes of obsolescence of Scandinavian loanwords in English since the 15th century. This study has mainly been based on the Oxford English Dictionary and the Middle English Dictionary.

Examines word order of two Old Germanic languages, Old English and Old High German, using a corpus containing samples of text types: original prose and translated prose. This book disproves hypothesis of West Germanic syntax, presenting data which shows that word order of languages started to diversify during Old English/High German period.