Studies in Middle English Linguistics

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Table of Contents

Preface
The development of an "impersonal" verb in Middle English: The case of behoove 1
Double trouble: Geminate versus simplex graphs in the Ormulum 23
Language and style in additions to The Canterbury Tales 59
The Middle English creolization hypothesis revisited 79
Infinitive marking in Late Middle English: Transitivity and changes in the English system of case 109
From syntax to discourse: The function of object-verb order in Late Middle English 135
Words in -ate and the history of English stress 157
Assessing the relative status of languages in medieval Ireland 181
Using the future to predict the past: Old English dialectology in the light of Middle English place-names 207
When did Middle English begin? Later than you think! 221
The Old English Anglian/Saxon boundary revisited 271
Stress, survival and change: Old to Middle English 283
Against the emergence of the nuclear stress rule in Middle English 301
-ing-constructions in Middle English 335
Concessive clauses in Chaucer's prose 351
Middle English nonrestrictive expository apposition with an explicit marker 373
On the beginning and development of the begin to construction 403
The Peterborough Chronicle diphthongs 429
Middle English phonetics: A systematic survey including notes on Irish and Welsh loanwords 439
Quasi-impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English 469
Like father (un)like son: A sociolinguistic approach to the language of the Cely family 489
Whatever happened to the Middle English indefinite pronouns? 513
Mutation, variation and selection in phonological evolution: A sketch based on the case of Late Middle English a > au/รท1{C/#} 531
Handmade tales: The implications of linguistic variation in two early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 551
Middle (and Old) English prerequisites for the Great Vowel Shift 561
Exclamations in Late Middle English 573
Index of names 609
Index of subjects 617
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