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Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages
of late medieval Britain. The languages of later medieval Britain
are here seen as no longerseparate or separable, but as needing to
be treated and studied together to discover the linguistic reality
of medieval Britain and make a meaningful assessment ofthe
relationship between the languages, and the role, status, function
or subsequent history of any of them. This theme emerges from all
the articles collected here from leading international experts in
their fields, dealing withlaw, language, Welsh history,
sociolinguistics and historical lexicography. The documents and
texts studied include a Vatican register of miracles in
fourteenth-century Hereford, medical treatises, municipal records
from York, teaching manuals, gild registers, and an account of work
done on the bridges of the river Thames. Contributors: PAUL BRAND,
BEGON CRESPO GARCIA, TONY HUNT, LUIS IGLESIAS-RABADE, LISA
JEFFERSON, ANDRES M. KRISTOL, FRANKWALTMOHREN, MICHAEL RICHTER,
WILLIAM ROTHWELL, HERBERT SCHENDL, LLINOS BEVERLEY SMITH, D.A.
TROTTER, EDMUIND WEINER, LAURA WRIGHT Professor D.A. TROTTER is
Professor of French and Head of Department of European Languages at
the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
This book provides the reader with a description of the semantic
change that took place over two periods of the history of English
language: Middle English and Early Modern English. In view of the
fact that semantic change is the type of change by which the
relationship between language and society can be traced best, notes
on the socio-historical background of the period have been
included. They are followed by the analysis of language change in
general in which some of the literature on the topic is reviewed
and the author's interpretation of change as being caused by
external factors is made clear. For this reason, terminology and
concepts relating to the field of socio-historical linguistics have
been incorporated in the analysis. The core of the work is semantic
change and the linguistic study of vocabulary items which belong to
the field of person-rank nouns. The results of the analysis
indicate a tendency towards specialisation in the meaning of
lexical categories which runs parallel to specialisation in
society.
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