The Anglo-Norman Language and Its Contexts

Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.

List of contents

Introduction. Anglo-Norman: New Themes, New Contexts - Richard Ingham
Later Anglo-Norman as a Contact Variety of French - Richard Ingham
The Sources of Standardisation in French - Written or Spoken? - Anthony Lodge
'Husbonderie' and 'Manaungerie' in Later Medieval England: A Tale of Two Walters - W Rothwell
Bridging the Gap: The [Socio]Linguistic Evidence of Some Medieval English Bridge Accounts - D A Trotter
From apareil to warderobe: Some Observations on Anglo-French in The Middle English Lexis of Cloth and Clothing - Louise Sylvester
From apareil to warderobe: Some Observations on Anglo-French in The Middle English Lexis of Cloth and Clothing - Mark C Chambers
Languages in the Military Profession in Later Medieval England - Anne Curry and Adam Chapman and Adrian R. Bell
The Language of the English Legal Profession: The Emergence of a Distinctive Legal Lexicon in Insular French - Paul Brand
Mapping Insular French Texts? Ideas for Localisation and Correlated Dialectology in Manuscript Materials of Medieval England - Jean-Pascal Pouzet
A Pilot Study on the Singular Definite Articles le and la in Fifteenth-Century London Mixed-Language Business Writing - Laura Wright
Investigating Anglo-Norman Influence on Late Middle English Syntax - Eric Haeberli
The Transmission of Later Anglo-Norman: Some Syntactic Evidence - Richard Ingham

Summary

Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Ingham
• Assisted by: Richard Ingham (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2010
• EAN: 9781903153307
• ISBN: 978-1-903153-30-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Französisch, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval