Institute for Historical Dialectology

PUBLICATIONS

Margaret Laing

1997 ‘A Fourteenth-Century Sermon on the Number Seven in Merton College, Oxford, MS 248’. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 98: 99 - 134.

1998a ‘Linguistic and textual relationships between the Corpus, Nero and Vernon Manuscripts of Ancrene Riwle - a response’. Medieval English Studies Newsletter 38: 4 - 16.

1998b ‘Raising a Stink in The Owl and the Nightingale: a New Reading at line 115’. Notes and Queries 243: 276 - 84.

1998c ‘Notes on Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86, the Names of a Hare in English’. Medium Ævum 67: 201 - 11.

1998d ‘Three notes on Dame Sirith, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86, fols. 165r–168r’. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 99: 401 - 09.

1999 ‘Confusion wrs confounded: litteral substitution sets in early Middle English writing systems’. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen100: 251 - 70.

2000a ‘The Linguistic Stratification of the Middle English Texts in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86’. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 101: 523 - 69

2000b ‘“Never the twain shall meet” early Middle English — the east west divide’, in Irma Taavitsainen et. al. eds. Placing Middle English in Context, pp. 97 - 124. Topics in English Linguistics series. Mouton de Gruyter.

2001 ‘Words reread. Middle English Writing Systems and the Dictionary’. Linguistica e Filologia 13: 87 - 129

2002 ‘Corpus-provoked Questions about Negation in early Middle English’. Language Sciences 24: 297 - 321

2003 (with Roger Lass) ‘Tales of the 1001 Nists. The Phonological Implications of Litteral Substitution Sets in 13th-century South-West-Midland texts’. English Language and Linguistics 7.2: 1 - 22.

2004 ‘Multidimensionality: Time, Space and Stratigraphy in Historical Dialectology’. In M. Dossena and R. Lass (eds.), Methods and Data in English Historical Dialectology. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 49 - 96.

2005 (with Roger Lass) ‘Are front rounded vowels retained in West Midland Middle English?’. In Nikolaus Ritt and Herbert Schendl (eds.), Rethinking Middle English: linguistic and literary approaches. Frankfurt / Main, etc.: Peter Lang. pp. 280 - 90.

2005 (with Roger Lass) ‘Early Middle English knight: (Pseudo)metathesis and lexical specificity’. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 106: 405 - 23.

2006 (with Roger Lass) ‘Early Middle English Dialectology: Problems and Prospects’. In Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los (eds.), Handbook of the History of English, pp. 417 - 51. Oxford: Blackwell.

2006 (with Roger Lass - Lass/Laing) ‘$ho:fian{*}/vK2: A LAEME-based Lexical Study’. In: G. Caie, C. Hough and I. Wotherspoon (eds), The Power of Words: Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics in honour of Christian Kay. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 79 - 91.

2007 ‘The Owl and the Nightingale: five new readings and further notes’. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 108: 445 - 77.

2007 (with Roger Lass - Laing/Lass) A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, 1150-1325 [electronic text corpus with accompanying software by Keith Williamson; index of sources; theoretical introduction], http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/laeme/laeme.html. Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh.

2008 ‘The Middle English scribe: sprach er wie er schrieb?’
. In Marina Dossena and Maurizio Gotti (eds.), English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume III: Geo-historical Variation. CILT 297. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 1 - 44.

2009 (with Roger Lass - Laing/Lass) ‘Shape-shifting, sound change and the genesis of prodigal writing systems’. English Language and Linguistics 13.1: 1 - 31.

Forthc. 2009 (with Roger Lass - Lass/Laing) ‘Databases, dictionaries and dialectology. Dental instability in Early Middle English: a case study’. In Marina Dossena and Roger Lass (eds.) Perspectives on English and Historical Dialectology. Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 91 - 131.

Forthc. 2009 ‘Weak segments in early Middle English’. In Donka Minkova (ed.), Phonological Weakness in English: from Old to Present-day English. Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change. Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 237 - 315.


Keith Williamson

1992/93 ‘A Computer-aided Method for Making a Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots ’. Scottish Language 11/12: 138 - 73

1995/96 ‘A Maze of Words. The William Will Fellowship Data-base Project’. Review of Scottish Culture no. 9: 128 - 38

2000a ‘Changing Spaces. Linguistic Relationships and the Dialect Continuum’. In Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta and Matti Rissanen (eds.), Placing Middle English in Context, Topics in English Linguistics series, pp. 141 - 79. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

2000b ‘Lexico-grammatical tags and the phonetic and syntactic analysis of medieval Texts’. In Christian Mair and Marianne Hundt (eds.), Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics, no. 33, pp. 385 - 95. Amsterdam, Atlanta GA: Rodopi

2001 ‘Spatio-temporal aspects of linguistic variation in Older Scots texts’. Scottish Language 20: 1 - 19.

2002 ‘The dialectology of “English” north of the Humber, c. 1380 - 1500’. In Teresa Fanego, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane (eds.), Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. Selected Papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7 - 11 September 2000, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 224, pp. 253 - 86. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins

2004 ‘On Chronicity and Space(s) in Historical Dialectology’. In M. Dossena and R. Lass (eds.) Methods and Data in English Historical Dialectology, pp. 97 - 136. Bern: Peter Lang

2005 ‘DOST and LAOS: A Caledonian Symbiosis?’. In ed. Christian J. Kay and Margaret A. Mackay (eds.), Perspectives in the Older Scottish Tongue, pp. 179 - 98. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

2006 Review article: ‘A.J. Aitken, The Older Scottish Vowels, A History of the Stressed Vowels of Older Scots from the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century’, ed. Caroline Macafee (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 2002)’. Notes and Queries NS vol. 53, no. 4: 559 - 60

2007 ‘A Latin - Older Scots glossary in Edinburgh University Library MS 205’. Revista de la Sociedad Espanñola de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa Medieval / Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, no. 14: 221 - 276


Margaret Laing and Keith Williamson

2004 ‘The Archaeology of Middle English Texts’. In Christian J. Kay and Jeremy J. Smith (eds.), Categorization in the History of English, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 261, pp. 85 - 145. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins