Studies in Middle English Linguistics

Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; The development of an "impersonal" verb in Middle English: the case of behoove /; Double trouble: Geminate versus simplex graphs in the Ormulum /; Language and style in additions to The Canterbury Tales /; The Middle English creolization hypothesis revisited /; Infinitive marking in Late Middle English: Transitivity and changes in the English system of case /; From syntax to discourse: The function of object-verb order in Late Middle English /; Words in -ate and the history of English stress /; Assessing the relative status of languages in medieval Ireland /; Using the future to predict the past: Old English dialectology in the light of Middle English place-names /; When did Middle English begin? Later than you think! /; The Old English Anglian/Saxon boundary revisited /; Stress, survival and change: Old to Middle English /; Against the emergence of the nuclear stress rule in Middle English /; -ing-constructions in Middle English /; Concessive clauses in Chaucer's prose /; Middle English nonrestrictive expository apposition with an explicit marker /; On the beginning and development of the begin to construction /; The Peterborough Chronicle diphthongs /; Middle English phonetics: A systematic survey including notes on Irish and Welsh loanwords /; Quasi-impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English /; Like father (un)like son: a sociolinguistic approach to the language of the Cely family /; Whatever happened to the Middle English indefinite pronouns? /; Mutation, variation and selection in phonological evolution: A sketch based on the case of Late Middle English a > au/_ l{C/#} /; Handmade tales: The implications of linguistic variation in two early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales /; Middle (and Old) English prerequisites for the Great Vowel Shift /; Exclamations in Late Middle English /; Index of names --; Index of subjects / Allen, Cynthia L. --; Anderson, John / Britton, Derek --; Blake, Norman F. --; Danchev, Andrei --; Fischer, Olga --; Foster, Tony / Wurff, Wim van der --; Gąsiorowski, Piotr --; Hickey, Raymond --; Hogg, Richard M. --; Kitson, Peter R. --; Kristensson, Gillis --; McCully, Christopher B. --; Minkova, Donka / Stockwell, Robert P. --; Moessner, Lilo --; Molencki, Rafal --; Nevanlinna, Saara / Pahta, Päivi --; Ogura, Michiko --; Phillips, Betty S. --; Pilch, Herbert --; Pocheptsov, George G. --; Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena / Nevalainen, Terttu --; Rissanen, Matti --; Ritt, Nikolaus --; Smith, Jeremy J. --; Steponavičius, Albertas --; Taavitsainen, Irma --