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The development of 'an impersonal' verb in Middle English - the case of behoove, Cynthia L. Allen; Double trouble - geminate versus simplex graph in the Ormulum, John M. Anderson, Derek Britton; Language and style in additions to "The Canterbury Tales", Norman F. Blake; The Middle English creolization hypothesis revisited, Andrei Danchev; Infinitive marking in the late Middle English - transitivity and changes in the English system of case, Olga Fisher; From syntax to discourse - the function of object-verb order in late Middle English, Tony Foster, Wim van der Wurff; The words in -ate and the history stress, Piotr Gasiorowski; Assessing the relative status of languages in medieval Ireland, Raymond Hickey; Using the future to predict the past - Old English dialectology in the light of Middle English place-names, Richard M. Hogg; When did Middle English begin? later than you think! Peter R. Kitson; The Old English Anglian/saxon boundary revisited, Gillis Kristensson; Stress, survival and change - Old to Middle English, Christopher B. McCully; Against the emergence of the nuclear stress rule in Middle English, Donka Minkova, Robert P. Stockwell; -ing constructions in Middle English, Lilo Moessner; Concessive clauses in Chaucer's prose, Rafat Molencki; Middle English nonrestrictive expository apposition with an explicit marker, Saara Nevanlinna, Paivi Pahta; On the beginning and development of the begin to construction, Michiko Ogura; The Peterborough Chronicle diphthongs, Betty S. Philipps; Middle English phonetics - a systematic survey including notes on Irish and Welsh loanwords, Herbert Pilch; Quasi-impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English, George G. Pocheptsov; Like father (un)like son - a sociolinguistic approach to the language of the Cely family, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Terttu Navalinen; Whatever happened to the Middle English indefinitive pronoun?, Matti Rissanen; Mutation, variation and selection in phonological evolution - a sketch based on the case of late Middle English a>au/_l)C/#), Nicolaus Ritt; Handmade tales - the implications of linguistic variation in two early manuscripts of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", Jeremy Smith; Middle ( and Old) English prerequisites for the great vowel shift, Albertas Steponavicius; Exclamations in late Middle English, Irma Taavitsainen.