Of ye Olde Englisch Langage and Textes: New Perspectives on Old and Middle English Language and Literature

Rodrigo Pérez Lorido is Associate Professor at the University of Oviedo (Spain), where he teaches English historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. His main fields of research are English diachronic syntax, psycholinguistics and different theories of language change. Carlos Prado-Alonso works as Associate professor at the University of Oviedo (Spain), where he teaches English syntax and pragmatic analysis. His research interests include the analysis of present-day English syntactic constructions and corpus research. Paula Rodríguez-Puente is Associate professor at the University of Oviedo (Spain), where she teaches history of the English language and English syntax. Her main research interests include English Historical Linguistics and corpus research.

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List of Contributors ................... 11
1.Introduction ................... 13

PART I. Language analysis and variation
I.A Lexis and semantics

Oxana Kharlamenko
2.The Expression of non-individual in some Old English nouns ................... 25

Olga Timofeeva
3.The lexicalisation of a Middle English binominal ................... 51

Zeltia Blanco-Suárez
4.Tracking down deadly and mortal(ly): The early history ................... 81

I.B. Spelling and phonology

Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden
5. Coda approximants in British English: A diachronic and synchronic
account ................... 109

Nelson Goering
6.Eduard Sievers' Altgermanisch Metrik 125 years on ................... 139

Jacob Thaisen
7. Classifying scripts, with particular reference to Anglicana and
Secretary ................... 163

I.C Register

Jesús Romero-Barranco/Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras
8. Coordination and subordination in Middle English scientific
prose: Textual variation in focus ................... 187

Magdalena Bator/Elzbieta Pawlikowska-Asendrych
9. Germanic culinary recipes in the Middle Ages - a comparative
typological study ................... 213

Sergio López-Martínez
10.The periodisation of Older Scots ................... 231

PART II. Textual analysis and translation
II.A Translation

Ayumi Miura
11. Revisiting the Latin influence on Middle English
interrogative who of. ................... 259

Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso
12. "Are the in-laws swearing?": Editing Old English manuscripts for
translation through Beowulf's Galician aliterative rendering ................... 281

II.B Text transmission

Richard North
13. "In hethenesse": Chaucer's Knight and Sultan Muhammad V of
Granada .................... 301

María José Esteve Ramos
14. "For to understand that much work the leech shall have": The
context of the Agnus Castus herbal in MS Sloane 7 .................... 323