Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain

Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages of late medieval Britain.

List of contents

- D A Trotter
The Welsh and English languages in late-medieval Wales - Llinos Beverley Smith
Historical background of multilingualism and its impact on English - Begona Crespo Garcia
L'intellectuel 'anglo-normand' face à la pluralité des langues: le témoignage implicite du ms. Oxford, Magdalen 188 - Andres M Kristol
Collecting miracles along the Anglo-Welsh border in the early fourteenth century - Michael Richter
The languages of the law in later medieval England - Paul A Brand
Linguistic aspects of code-switching in medieval English texts - Herbert Schendl
French phrasal power in late Middle English. Some evidence concerning the verb nime(n)/take(n) - Luis Iglesias Rabade
Code-switching in medical texts - Tony Hunt
Bills, accounts, inventories: everyday trilingual activities in the business world of later medieval England - Laura Wright
One-fold lexicography for a manifold problem? - Frankwalt Mohren
Medieval multilingualism and the revision of the OED - E S C Weiner
The language and vocabulary of the fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century records of the Goldsmiths' Company - Lisa Jefferson
Aspects of lexical and morphosyntactical mixing in the languages of medieval England - William Rothwell

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D.A. Trotter

Product details

• Assisted by: D A Trotter (Editor), D. A. Trotter (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.2000
• EAN: 9780859915632
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-563-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 237 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 694 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy