Middle English (Mouton Reader)

The volume provides a wide-ranging account of Middle English,organized by linguistic level. Not only are the traditional areasof linguistic study explored in state-of-the-art chapters, but thevolume also covers less traditional areas of study, includingcreolization, sociolinguistics, literary language (including thelanguage of Chaucer), pragmatics and discourse, dialectology,standardization, language contact, and multilingualism.