Contents

J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre and Javier Calle-MartínIntroduction  .................................................................................................................7

Part 1: Languages in contact and variation in Middle English, multilingualism and multidialectism

Herbert SchendlLanguage contact and code‑switching in multilingual late medieval England .......15

Laura WrightOn medieval wills and the rise of written monolingual English  .........................35

Melanie BorchersQue ma langue lor est salvaige. The status of French in medieval England: An attitude study  .................................................................55

Rafał MolenckiThe competition between purveyen and providen in Late Middle English  ........67

Raymond HickeyMiddle English voiced fricatives and the argument from borrowing  ................83

Theo VennemannRadical word order change by substratal causation: English versus German  ......97

Hanna RutkowskaLate medieval dialectal and obsolescent spellings in the sixteenth‑century editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes  ................................. 129

Laura Esteban-SeguraTwo Middle English texts in the light of the Málaga POS Tagger of Middle English  ....................................................... 149

Part 2: Middle English morphology and syntax

Ryuichi Hottas‑Pluralisation in Early Middle English and word frequency  ........................... 163

Gyöngyi WerthmüllerFinal -e in Gower’s and Chaucer’s monosyllabic  premodifying adjectives. A grammatical/metrical analysis  .............................. 179

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María Francisca Buys and Concha CastilloOn the V2‑type that disappears in ME  ................................................................ 199

Part 3: Middle English semantics and pragmatics

Francisco Alonso-Almeida, Maureen Mulligan, Elena Quintana-ToledoThe status of may in Middle English medical writing. Evidence from Middle English Medical Texts and the Málaga Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific Prose  ................................ 215

Božena DudaThere are wenches and sluts but no traces of cats or bats: On characteristics of the Middle English conceptualisation patterns within the conceptual category fallen woman  ................................. 231

Minako NakayasuSpatio‑temporal systems in A Treatise on the Astrolabe  .................................... 243