Studies in Middle English Forms and Meanings

ISBN-13: 9783631559512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 292 str.

Gabriella Mazzon

Spis treści

Contents: Gabriella Mazzon: Introduction - Hans-Jürgen Diller: From m d to emotion (or almost): the medieval gestation of a modern concept - Dieter Kastovsky: Middle English word-formation: a list of desiderata - Laura Wright: On some Middle English Colour Terms, including pink - Barbara Bianchi: Towards an electronic LALME: Scandinavian and French influence in some late Middle English texts from Cheshire - María José Carrillo-Linares/Edurne Garrido-Anes: Middle English Lexical Distributions: Two Instances From The Lay Folks' Catechism - Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti: A pragma-linguistic approach to medieval narrative: the case of saints' lives - Julia Fernández Cuesta/Nieves Rodríguez Ledesma: From Old Northumbrian to Northern Middle English: Bridging the divide - Nils-Lennart Johannesson: On Orm's relationship to his Latin sources - Cynthia Lloyd: From denominal to deverbal: the suffix -age in Middle English - María José López-Couso: Frequency effects: Middle English nis as a case in point - Roderick W. McConchie: Discomfort in Middle English - Belén Méndez Naya: He nas nat right fat: On the origin and development of intensifier right - Lilo Moessner: The Mandative Subjunctive in Middle English - Tibor Örsi: The Use of Synonyms in the English Version of Mandeville's Travels - Letizia Vezzosi: Himself: an overview of its use in Middle English - Jerzy Welna: The loss of the liquid [l] in Early English, or what Luick and Jordan did not say - Anna Wojtys: Middle English perfixal past participle marking in the Midlands.

O autorze

The Editor: Gabriella Mazzon is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Cagliari. Her main research interests are sociolinguistics (English as a second language, varieties of English), historical syntax (negative forms), and historical pragmatics (forms of address, modality, dialogue).