Studies in Middle English Linguistics

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Preface 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 #NAME? 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