Studies in Middle English Linguistics

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development of 'an impersonal' verb in Middle English - the case of behoove, Cynthia L. Allen Double trouble - geminate versus simplex graph in the Ormulum, John M. Anderson, Derek Britton Language and style in additions to The Tales, Norman F. Blake Middle English creolization hypothesis revisited, Andrei Danchev Infinitive marking in the late Middle English - transitivity and changes in the English system of case, Olga Fisher From syntax to discourse - the function of object-verb order in late Middle English, Tony Foster, Wim van der Wurff words in -ate and the history stress, Piotr Gasiorowski Assessing the relative status of languages in medieval Ireland, Raymond Hickey Using the future to predict the past - Old English dialectology in the light of Middle English place-names, Richard M. Hogg When did Middle English begin? later than you think! Peter R. Kitson Old English Anglian/saxon boundary revisited, Gillis Kristensson Stress, survival and change - Old to Middle English, Christopher B. McCully Against the emergence of the nuclear stress rule in Middle English, Donka Minkova, Robert P. Stockwell -ing constructions in Middle English, Lilo Moessner Concessive clauses in Chaucer's prose, Rafat Molencki Middle English nonrestrictive expository apposition with an explicit marker, Saara Nevanlinna, Paivi Pahta On the beginning and development of the begin to construction, Michiko Ogura Peterborough Chronicle diphthongs, Betty S. Philipps Middle English phonetics - a systematic survey including notes on Irish and Welsh loanwords, Herbert Pilch Quasi-impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English, George G. Pocheptsov Like father (un)like son - a sociolinguistic approach to the language of the Cely family, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Terttu Navalinen Whatever happened to the Middle English indefinitive pronoun?, Matti Rissanen Mutation, variation and selection in phonological evolution - a sketch based on the case of late Middle English a>au/_l)C/#), Nicolaus Ritt Handmade tales - the implications of linguistic variation in two early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Jeremy Smith Middle ( and Old) English prerequisites for the great vowel shift, Albertas Steponavicius Exclamations in late Middle English, Irma Taavitsainen.