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

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by  Carlos Prado Alonso (editor), Paula Rodriguez-Puente (editor), Rodrigo Perez Lorido (editor)

Of ye Olde Englisch Langage and Textes:
New Perspectives on Old and Middle English Language and Literature
STUDIES IN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Edited by Magdalena Bator

Advisory Board:
John Anderson (Methoni, Greece), Ulrich Busse (Halle),
Isabel de la Cruz-Cabanillas (Alcala, Spain), Olga Fischer (Amsterdam),
Marcin Krygier (Pozna ), Peter Lucas (Cambridge),
Donka Minkova (Los Angeles), Akio Oizumi (Kyoto),
Katherine O’Brien O’ńKeeffe (UC Berkeley, USA),
Hans Sauer (Munich), Liliana Sikorska (Pozna ),
Jeremy Smith (Glasgow), Jerzy Wełna (Warsaw)
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Vol. 57
STUDIES IN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL Rodrigo Pérez Lorido / Carlos Prado-Alonso /
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds.)
Edited by Magdalena Bator

Advisory Board:
John Anderson (Methoni, Greece), Ulrich Busse (Halle),
Isabel de la Cruz-Cabanillas (Alcala, Spain), Olga Fischer (Amsterdam),
Marcin Krygier (Pozna ), Peter Lucas (Cambridge),
Donka Minkova (Los Angeles), Akio Oizumi (Kyoto),
Katherine O’Brien O’ńKeeffe (UC Berkeley, USA),
Hans Sauer (Munich), Liliana Sikorska (Pozna ), Of ye Olde Englisch Langage and
Jeremy Smith (Glasgow), Jerzy Wełna (Warsaw)
ń Textes: New Perspectives on Old

Vol. 57 and Middle English Language and

Literature
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A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for
at the Library of Congress.

This publication was financially supported by the University of Oviedo as well as
by Oviedo City Council.

Printed by CPI books GmbH, Leck.

ISSN 1436-7521
ISBN 978-3-631-81795-7 (Print)
E-ISBN 978-3-631-82132-9 (E-PDF)
E-ISBN 978-3-631-82133-6 (EPUB)
E-ISBN 978-3-631-82134-3 (MOBI)
DOI 10.3726/b16935
© Peter Lang GmbH
Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Berlin 2020
All rights reserved.
Peter Lang – Berlin ∙ Bern ∙ Bruxelles ∙ New York ∙
Oxford ∙ Warszawa ∙ Wien
All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any
utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without
the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to
prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions,
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Acknowledgements

The editors wish to thank all authors for their contributions, for willingly and
patiently putting up with our (perhaps too many) requests and queries and
for promptly sending back any revisions we required from them. Also, spe-
cial thanks go to the anonymous reviewers for their many valuable suggestions
and recommendations, and for their overall kindness and helpfulness. The
University of Oviedo, the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English, French
and German Philology of the University of Oviedo are duly to be acknowledged
for their financial support, as well as for providing the necessary technical and
human resources for the celebration of the 30th SELIM Conference. Finally, we
wish to express our gratitude to the Oviedo City Council, which provided spe-
cific funding for the publication of this volume.
This volume is dedicated to the fond memory of Prof. Jacek Fisiak, former
editor of the series Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, one of
the pioneers in the field of English historical linguistics, and a much loved and
respected scholar, who will be greatly missed.
Rodrigo Pérez Lorido/Carlos Prado-Alonso/Paula Rodríguez-Puente
University of Oviedo
January 2020

Table of Contents

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