Studies in Middle English : words, forms, senses and texts

Contents: Philip Durkin: Some neglected aspects of Middle English lexical borrowing from (Anglo-)French - Hans Sauer: Twin-formulae and more in late Middle-English: The Historye of the Patriarks, Caxton's Ovid, Pecock's Donet - Liliana Sikorska: Waiting for the Barbarians. Conceptualizing fear in medieval Saracen romances - Artur Bartnik: On nominative resumptive pronouns in Old and Middle English - Magdalena Bator: Tasting the smell or smelling the taste? The linguistics synaesthesia within the Middle English semantic fields of SMELL and TASTE - Joanna Bukowska: The preoccupation with the abuse of truth in Richard the Redeless and Thomas Usk's Testament of Love - Javier Calle-Martin/Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre: A sociolinguistic analysis of zero that-clauses in late Middle English - Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska: The preposition yeond in Layamon's Brut - Joanna Esquibel/Anna Wojtys: att heffness yate uss openn be or ... oppnedd be: How adjectival can a MiddIe English participle be? - Eugene Green: Finding pragmatic common ground between Chaucer's Dreamer and Eagle in The House of Fame - Ryuichi Hotta: Textual characteristics of the Poema Morale, M version - Leena Kahlas-Tarkka/Matti Rissanen: On verb-based adverbial connectives in Middle English: Borrowing and grammaticalization - Yin Liu: Scribal spelling of Northern ta as to, and some implications - Andrzej M Lecki/Jerzy Nykiel: All roads lead to purpose: The rise and fall of to the end that and to the effect that in English - Rafal Molencki: The constructionalization of ago in Middle English - John G. Newman: Token frequency, lexico-semantic association, and the adoption of the plural marker -(e)n(e) by Middle English feminine r-stem nouns - Fuyo Osawa: Why has an article system emerged?: The shift from parataxis to hierarchy - Tibor Orsi: Semantic shifts in Middle English borrowings from (Old) French: The semantic field of travelling - Agnieszka Wawrzyniak: Metaphors, metonymies and their coreferentiality in the conceptualization of love and heart in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Jerzy Welna: Insertion and loss of the voiceless dental plosive [t] in Middle English - Fumiko Yoshikawa: The mapping of rhetorical strategies related to persuasion in Middle English religious prose.