For a good orientation into the history of English grammar, several books are indispensable. One of those is Mustanoja's 'A Middle English Syntax'. However, for a long time this work was not readily available; the present edition changes that. This is a fac simile reprint from t…
"The chapters of this book form an essay in a type of history I call 'verse history,' a concept not covered by any of the usual terms applied to the study of literature. Verse history is the history of a tradition of composing poems in a certain meter. It is distinct from litera…
The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth an…
This book offers the first comprehensive study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs combining the prefix 'be-' with a preposition, an adverb or a numeral recorded in prose texts. Six best established lexemes, i.e., 'before, beyond, behind, beneath, between' and'betwixt'are…
Historical corpora - The demise of five preterite-present verbs in English - Detailed description of the forms and uses of these verbs in Old and Middle English - The reasons for their elimination from the language Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive s…
"In Motion and the English Verb, a study of the expression of motion in medieval English, Judith Huber provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English, and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early English. Hu…
Theauthoranalyzes, from a historical sociolinguistic point of view,selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503). Inthree case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed i…
"The author analyzes, from a historical sociolinguistic point of view, selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503). While the author aims at a balanced integration of different approaches in sociolin…
