Handbook of Middle English
Contributors: James A. Walker (Translator)
Edition: 2 Rep Sub edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9780801867613
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Miscellaneous; Middle English Literature; Old And Middle English; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Middle English; Language; Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
First sentence: 1. It is conventional to call "Middle English" the English spoken and written in Great Britain between about 1150 and 1500, that is, during the period intermediate between Old English (OE) and Modern English (Mod E).