The Use and Development of Middle Engish: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Middle English, Cambridge 2008.

Octavo, printed paper covered boards, 302 pp., index of manuscripts, general index Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 38. Introduction by Dance and Wright. Articles are "Machine generated contents note: Body of evidence: Middle English annotated corpora and dialect atlases," J. Gabriel Amores Carredano, "Compilation of an electronic corpus of northern English texts from Old to Early Modern English," Gabriella Mazzon, "Now what? The analysis of Middle English discourse markers and advances in historical dialogue studies," Hans-Jurgen Diller, "Ssoong on Ifaluk, ANGER and WRATH in Middle English: Historical Semantics as bridge-builder," Cynthia Allen, "The Poss(essive) Det(erminer) construction in Early Middle English writings," Ewa Ciszek, "The suffix -ish: Its semantic development and productivity in Middle English," Edurne Garrido-Anes, "Lexical variation in late Middle English: Selection and deselection," Anna Wojtys, "The prefix y-: grammatical marker or meaningless appendage? A contrastive analysis of selected manuscripts of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales," Joanna Esquibel, "Gratter cost, more grat zenne, pe more gratter torment: Comparison in Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt," Carole Hough, "Names in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale," Nils-Lennart Johannesson, "Rihht alls an hunnte takepp der./Wipp hise zaepe racchess": Hunting as a metaphor for proselytizing in the Ormulum," Mayumi Taguchi, "Devotional terms and the use of the Bible in Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ," Nicolay Yakovlev, "Metre and punctuation in the Caligula manuscript of Lazamon's Brut," Ad Putter.A prototype theory of metrical stress: Lexical categories and ictus in Langland, the Gawain-poet and other alliterative poets Index of Manuscripts.…