商品簡介
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 Malaga Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific Prose. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre is professor at the University of Murcia (Spain). He works on a variety of topics in historical sociolinguistics, especially on the social and geographical diffusion of late Middle English and on medieval English dialects and standardisation.
Javier Calle-Martin is senior lecturer at the University of Malaga (Spain). His research interests include historical linguistics and manuscript studies, focusing on early English documents.
