Jeremy Smith's
LANGUAGE QUESTIONS
The workshop on language issues will largely be "hands-on", give the very disparate groups of people who will be present. We will be looking at a range of texts in handout form, and discussing a variety of problems relating to how the study of Middle English (and other languages) relates to Medieval English Textual Cultures. But you might find it helpful to look at the following articles beforehand. You may well have done so already!
Peter J. Lucas, 'The treatment of language' and M. Mills, 'Using the Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English', in V. P. McCarren and D. Moffat eds., A Guide to Editing Middle English (University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 1998)
S. Horobin and J. J. Smith, An Introduction to Middle English (EUP: Edinburgh, 2002), especially chapter 7
If you have time and it is accessible to you, you should also look at the Introduction to Volume I of A. McIntosh, M. L. Samuels and M. Benskin, A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English (AUP: Aberdeen, 1986).
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