Margaret Laing
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Laing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Laing |
| SIGNATURE | LAING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3684-3937 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The early Middle English reflexes of Germanic *ik ‘I’
The phonological shape of the PDE first-person nominative singular pronoun ‘I’ is assumed to have a simple history. The final consonant of WGmc *ik ‘palatalises’ (i.e. fronts and assibilates), and later drops, yielding [iː], which develops through the Great Vowel Shift into something like [ai]. However, the late Old English and early Middle English evidence indicates that such a simple narrative does not match the attested data. Rather, there are…
Early Middle English Dialectology
The early Middle English scribe
Written Middle English is not phonetic transcript. The sound-pattern is not directly known, but has to be reconstructed – from, among other things, written forms interpreted in the light of the particular spelling systems to which they belong. Pronunciation is an object of discovery, not a premiss: assumptions about the way (or ways) in which a written form was pronounced, ought not to be built in to the collection of the primary evidence. It doe…
Corpus-provoked questions about negation in early Middle English
Never the twain shall meet. Early Middle English - the East-West divide
Speaking in Our Tongues
Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English
Bibliographical abbreviations catalogue of sources index of Middle English texts - titles, incipits index of Old English texts index of texts in Latin index of texts in French.
Middle English Dialectology
Dialectal Analysis and Linguistically Composite Texts in Middle English
The Lonrho Connections
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The Lonrho Connections
Dialectal Analysis and Linguistically Composite Texts in Middle English
Middle English Dialectology
Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English
Bibliographical abbreviations catalogue of sources index of Middle English texts - titles, incipits index of Old English texts index of texts in Latin index of texts in French.
Speaking in Our Tongues
Never the twain shall meet. Early Middle English - the East-West divide
Corpus-provoked questions about negation in early Middle English
Early Middle English Dialectology
The early Middle English scribe
Written Middle English is not phonetic transcript. The sound-pattern is not directly known, but has to be reconstructed – from, among other things, written forms interpreted in the light of the particular spelling systems to which they belong. Pronunciation is an object of discovery, not a premiss: assumptions about the way (or ways) in which a written form was pronounced, ought not to be built in to the collection of the primary evidence. It doe…
The early Middle English reflexes of Germanic *ik ‘I’
The phonological shape of the PDE first-person nominative singular pronoun ‘I’ is assumed to have a simple history. The final consonant of WGmc *ik ‘palatalises’ (i.e. fronts and assibilates), and later drops, yielding [iː], which develops through the Great Vowel Shift into something like [ai]. However, the late Old English and early Middle English evidence indicates that such a simple narrative does not match the attested data. Rather, there are…
Linguistics and language evolution (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Art (4 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works) · Middle English (4 works) · Dialectology (3 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (3 works)