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Subject(s)

• English language—Old English, ca. 450-1100 [Browse]

Editor

• Prado-Alonso, Carlos [Browse]
• Pérez Lorido, Rodrigo [Browse]
• Rodríguez-Puente, Paula [Browse]

Series

• Studies in English medieval language and literature ; Bd. 57. [More in this series]
• Studies in English medieval language and literature, 1436-7521 ; vol. 57 [More in this series]

Summary note

This book provides new insights on different aspects of Old and Middle Eng-lish language and literature, presenting state-of-the-art analyses of linguistic phenomena and literary developments in those periods and opening up new directions for future work in the field. The volume tackles aspects of English diachronic linguistics such as the development of binominals and collective nouns in Old and Middle English, the early history of the intensifiers 'deadly' and 'mortally', the articulatory-acoustic characteristics of approximants in English, Old English metrics, some aspects of the methodology of corpus research with paleography in focus, studies of the interplay language-register, and a chapter discussing the periodology of Older Scots. The last section of the book ad-dresses literary and translatorial issues such as the impact of Latin 'quis' on the Middle English interrogative 'who of', the problems that may arise when trans-lating Beowulf into Galician, a reinterpretation of Chaucer's Knight's Tale, and a discussion of the structure of medieval manuscripts containing miscellanea

Bibliographic references

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Includes bibliographical references

Contents

• Introduction
• The expression of non-individual in some Old English nouns / Oana Kharlamenko
• The lexicalisation of a Middle English binominal / Olga Timofeeva
• Tracking down deadly and mortal(ly): the early history / Zeltia-Blanco Suárez
• Coda approximants in British English: a diachronic and synchronic account / Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden
• Eduard Sievers' altermanisch metrik 125 years on / Nelson Goering
• Classifying scripts, with particular reference to Anglicana and secretary / Jacob Thaisen
• Coordination and subordination in Middle English scientific prose: textual variation in focus / Jesús Romero-Barranco, Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras
• Germanic culinary recipes in the Middle Ages: a comparative typological study / Magdalena Baor, Elzbieta Pawlikowska-Asendrych
• The periodisation of older Scots / Sergio López-Martínez
• Revisiting the Latin influence of Middle English interrogative who of / Ayumi Miura
• "Are the in-laws swearing?": editing Old English manuscripts for translation through Beowulf's Galician aliterative rendering / Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso
• "In hethenesse": Chaucer's Knight and Sultan Muhammad V of Granada / Richard North
• "For to understand that much work the leech shall have": the context of the Agnus Castus herbal in MS Sloane 7 / María José Esteve Ramos

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ISBN

• 9783631817957
• 3631817959

OCLC

1144091863

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