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The Language of The Peterborough Chronicle: January 2007

This document provides information about a book titled "The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle" published in 2007. It examines the language used in the Peterborough Chronicle, an Anglo-Saxon manuscript from the 12th-13th centuries, through a series of chapters by different authors. The book is available for purchase through Peter Lang publishers and analyzes grammatical features like demonstratives, case, and verb movement patterns to understand the dialect used in the manuscript.

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The Language of The Peterborough Chronicle: January 2007

This document provides information about a book titled "The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle" published in 2007. It examines the language used in the Peterborough Chronicle, an Anglo-Saxon manuscript from the 12th-13th centuries, through a series of chapters by different authors. The book is available for purchase through Peter Lang publishers and analyzes grammatical features like demonstratives, case, and verb movement patterns to understand the dialect used in the manuscript.

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The Language of the
Peterborough Chronicle

Alexander Bergs/Janne Skaffari (eds.)


2007

Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 20


Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang

ISBN 978-3-631-56454-7

This book can be purchased at http://www.peterlang.com.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Alexander Bergs & Janne Skaffari


Invitation to the Peterborough Chronicle and its language 5

Malasree Home
The Peterborough Chronicle in context 13

Betty S. Phillips
Æ-raising in the Peterborough Chronicle 29

Alexander Bergs
Spoilt for choice? <THE> problem with <ÞE> in <ĐE> Peterborough Chronicle 45
Agnieszka Pysz
The usage of demonstratives in the Peterborough Chronicle against the background of the Old
English paradigm 57

Cynthia L. Allen
The case of the genitive in the Peterborough Continuations 77

Elly van Gelderen


Accelerated grammaticalization in the Peterborough Chronicle 93

Lynn Sims
Do the verb-movement patterns in the Peterborough Chronicle reflect the influence of a
Northern dialect? 111

Bridget Drinka
The periphrastic perfect in early English: Evidence from the Peterborough Chronicle 135

Oliver M. Traxel
Linking Old English and Middle English: The Peterborough Chronicle as an introductory
teaching tool to the History of English 163

Carol Percy
‘To HEL with PC’: Teaching ‘The History of the English Language’ with the Peterborough
Chronicle in North America 175

Index 193

This book can be purchased at http://www.peterlang.com.

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