Studies in Old and Middle English

Contents: Elzbieta Adamczyk: The English-Saxon morphological interface: Evidence from the nominal inflection of the West Saxon and Old Saxon Genesis - Anna Antkowiak: Scribal treatment of the (to)-infinitive in the 15th century manuscripts of the three selected tales from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Michael Bilynsky: The expansion of ME shared sense/stem (de)verbal synonyms: Patterns of etymological interchange - Anna Budna: Tracing potential foreign influences on Middle English morphology: The present participle markers -and and -ing - Natalia Filipowicz: Tracing the origins and fates of African fauna vocabulary in Middle English - Anna Hebda: Onde and envy: A diachronic cognitive approach - Joanna Janecka/Anna Wojtys: In the secounde moneth, that other yeer of the goyng of hem out of Egipte - on the replacement of other by second in English - Malgorzata Klos: 'To die' in Early Middle English: Deien, swelten or sterven? - Agnieszka Kocel: Nonpalatalised dorsals in Southumbrian Middle English grammatical words: A Scandinavian influence? - Sylwester Lodej: The non-denotational meaning in the domain of clergy: Pejoration of the lexical fields of PRIEST, BISHOP and POPE in Early Modern English - Janusz Malak: The rise of phrasal verbs in Middle English - a case of indirect syntactic influence on word forms - Franciska Trobevsek Drobnak: Formal marking of the Middle English infinitive in specific grammatical environment.