Medieval dialectology
By: edited by Jacek Fisiak.
Contributors: Fisiak, Jacek.; International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10th : 1991 : Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Series: Trends in linguistics.; 79
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Dialectology -- Congresses.; Historical linguistics -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Nine of the eleven papers were presented at a workshop on medieval dialectology held at the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, Aug. 16, 1991.
Table of contents: title: The phonetic phenomena connected with the strengthening and weakening of sonants in Bulgarian and Macedonian dialects / Jerzy Duma; title: Parasite consonants : a homographic clash / Thera de Jong; title: The nature of Old English dialect distributions, mainly as exhibited in charter boundaries / Peter R. Kitson; title: Geographical and linguistic distance in thirteenth-century Dutch / Marijke Mooijaart; title: Copyist behavior : historical linguistics and text filiation / Margôt van Mulken; title: Contractions of preposition and plural article without "s" (e.g., à + les > au) in Old French, a completely overlooked problem of paradigm formation with implications for the theory of language change / Pieter van Reenen; title: Slavonic Pomerania in the past : it's links with neighboring areas and its internal division / Ewa Rzetelska-Feleszko; title: New methods in textual criticism : the case of the Charroi de Nîmes / Lene Schøsler; title: "Sociolectalization" as a feature in different versions of medieval drama / Max Siller; title: Realizations of the definite article in dialectal English and how and when they originated / Wolfgang Viereck; title: A hypothesis on the structure of macaronic business writing / Laura Wright.