Approaches to Middle English: Variation, Contact and Change

From a 2013 conference at the University of Murcia in Spain, 14 papers look at language in contact and variation in Middle English, multilingualism and multidialectism; Middle English morphology and syntax; and Middle English semantics and pragmatics. Among the topics are medieval wills and the rise of written monolingual English, radical word order change by substratal causation: English versus German, late medieval dialectal and obsolescent spellings in the 16th-century editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes, and the status of may in Middle English medical writing: evidence from Middle English Medical Texts and the Málaga Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific Prose. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)