Preface

The development of an "impersonal" verb in Middle English: The case of behoove

Cynthia L. Allen

Double trouble: Geminate versus simplex graphs in the Ormulum

John Anderson

Derek Britton

Language and style in additions to The Canterbury Tales

Norman F. Blake

The Middle English creolization hypothesis revisited

Andrei Danchev

Infinitive marking in Late Middle English: Transitivity and changes in the English system of case

Olga Fischer

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 of English 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

The 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

Rafal 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

The Peterborough Chronicle diphthongs

Betty S. Phillips

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 Nevalainen

Whatever happened to the Middle English indefinite pronouns?

Matti Rissanen

Mutation, variation and selection in phonological evolution: A sketch based on the case of Late Middle English a less than au _1{C #}

Nikolaus Ritt

Handmade tales: The implications of linguistic variation in two early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Jeremy J. Smith

Middle (and Old) English prerequisites for the Great Vowel Shift

Albertas Steponavicius

Exclamations in Late Middle English

Irma Taavitsainen

Index of names

Index of subjects