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Three etymological cruxes: Early Middle English cang ‘fool(ish)’ and (Early) Middle English cangun/conjoun ‘fool’, Middle English crois versus cross and Early Modern English clown

Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs, 1997
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From OV to VO in Early Middle English

2002
This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed before, i.e., northern Early Middle English texts clearly ...
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Negative adverbs in early Middle English

English Studies, 1978
(1978). Negative adverbs in early Middle English. English Studies: Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 295-309.
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Early Middle English Accentual Verse

Modern Philology, 1979
Few of us would now accept the romantic notion, once offered to many Englishspeaking students, that the English language was defeated in 1066 but made a comeback around 1300. Such scholars as Albert C. Baugh and Margaret Schlauch have demonstrated that English was used during the Norman domination by the vast majority of English people.' Literary ...
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On the loss of preaspiration in Early Middle English

Transactions of the Philological Society, 2005
This article looks into the loss of preaspiration in words like *hnecce, ‘neck’, *hlēapan, ‘leap’, or *hraefn, ‘raven’ in Early Middle English. With the exception of /hw-/, which survives in contemporary varieties, preaspirated variants were lost between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries.
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From Middle to Early Modern English

2007
AbstractThis chapter addresses what is probably the most famous sound-change in the history of English: the Great Vowel Shift, which is one of the key developments distinguishing Early Modern English from Middle English. Two Shifts — a Northern and a Southern development — are discussed, and distinct explanations are offered for both.
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Early Middle English Literature.

Modern Language Notes, 1941
Albert C. Baugh, R. M. Wilson
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Early Middle English

2021
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Early Middle English Literature

The Modern Language Review, 1940
J. L. Palmer, R. M. Wilson
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Early Middle English — 12th century

1998
Standard English today is not a regional variety of English but linguists classify it as a dialect in the sense that it is one variety, among many, of the English language. It is the ‘prestige dialect’ of the language with a unique status (see section 1.1).
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