Bücher der Reihe Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature

A set of Early Middle English works that composed for devout women, renowned for both their vigorous and flexible prose and their rich and distinctive language. It brings together various manuscripts of four of the five works, printing them in parallel for easy comparison.

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.

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".

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.

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".

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.

Betwixt engelaunde and englene londe

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.

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.

Offers a statistical study of Middle English prepositions. This book demonstrates how Middle English prepositions underwent semantic erosion, either via de-lexicalisation or through collocational and idiomatic processes.

A collection of essays demonstrates that much can be learned from studying features such as word-division, printer's type, and spelling conventions. It features - termed accidentals - typically receive little attention when editors discuss how a text became actualized in a particular medieval manuscript or early modern print.

Examines four Middle English narratives of the Trojan War as examples of the medieval appropriations of classical history and classical narrative traditions as a discourse related to issues of contemporary politics and morality. This title includes "Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy", "Laud Troy Book", "Seege of Troye" and "Troy Book".

More than any other European language English has been shaped by its contacts with other languages such as Celtic, Latin, Scandinavian and French. This is true not only of the vocabulary, but also of morphology and even phonology and syntax. But also the contact between different varieties of English played an important role, especially in the shaping of the Englishes outside England. The papers contained in this volume deal with such contacts from various points of views. Major topics are: the restructuring of lexical fields by borrowing processes in Old, Middle and Early Modern English, the influence of Scandinavian on the morphology, the influence of Latin on English syntax, the development of Middle English verse meter under Italian influence, the origin of spelling conventions, the role of code-switching and language mixing for the development of the language, and the role of language contact in general in Central Europe.

The study analyzes the cultural others' corporeality in Middle English oriental romances. It includes among other a Lacanian reading of Chaucer's Squire's tale and Sir Ferumbras along with the topics of anthropophagy in Richard le Coer de Lyon, of slavery in Floris and Blancheflour, and of female grotesque in the English Charlemagne romances.

This volume contains research papers on miscellaneous issues of Middle English studies putting a notable emphasis on up-to-date tools and methodologies. It involves lexical studies, phonology, semantics, morphological and syntactic processes as well as issues of language contacts, variables in manuscripts and dialects and insights into literature.

Foreign Influences on Medieval English

Aspects of the History of English Language and Literature

Grammaticalisation Paths of Have in English

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.