Product Description: This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan (Poland) in November 2010. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of Old and Middle English language studies, from gender/declension shifts and historical English syntax to semantic field analysis...read more

Product Description: The volume contains three linguistic and four literary papers. The linguistic papers are devoted to Middle English spelling of fricatives, the temporal conjunction before in Medieval English and multiple negation in Late Middle and Early Modern English...read more

Product Description: This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Third Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan, Poland in November 2004. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the areas of Old and Middle English language and literature: from Old and Middle English semantics and word geography to Old and Middle English literature...read more

Product Description: This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Second Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Pozna, Poland in November 2003. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the areas of Old and Middle English language and literature: from language contact and Middle English syntax to pragmatics, and from Chaucer to Middle English religious and secular discourse...read more

Product Description: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book discusses the removal of i-umlaut alternations from the inflectional system of Middle English. After presenting the scope and nature of the process in Germanic languages, it offers a detailed investigation into its lexicalisation in main dialects of Middle English...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book deals with the extension of the weak verbal preterite markers to the category of English strong verbs before the year 1500. The examination of a large corpus of data collected from numerous sources is complemented by the analysis of individual representative texts from the periods in question...read more