This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznań (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.
Earlier versions of papers originally delivered at the 7th Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Adam Mickiewicz Univ, 22-23 November 2008.
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznań, Poland, in November 2007. 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.
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznań, Poland in November 2006. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the areas of Old and Middle English language and from language contact and Middle English syntax to pragmatics, and from Chaucer to Middle English religious and secular discourse.
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. The literary papers discuss Medieval East Anglian Drama, the making of language in Malory‘s Morte Darthur , a comparison of Chaucer‘s Troilus and Criseyde and Boethius‘s Consolation of Philosophy, and the analysis of Dame Sirith .
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. The observed developments are viewed as an interplay of four main factors: the degree of optimal patterning, type frequency, language contact and paradigmatic pressure.