Introduction

"Mandeville’s Travels" and the study of Middle English word geography: a corpus-based analysis of selected verbs

“…Even though these factors assume a divergent point of view on the study of language, they do not exclude each other (Meurman-Solin 2000a, 2000b. Actually, one should be aware of the fact that the influence of both of them on linguistic data is of crucial importance (Dossena and Lass 2004).…”

“…One of the major principles when studying languages' development is to put the emphasis on context -either regional or social (Dossena and Lass 2004). Even though these factors assume a divergent point of view on the study of language, they do not exclude each other (Meurman-Solin 2000a, 2000b.…”

Marianne Hundt (ed.), Late Modern English syntax (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 385 pp. ISBN 9781107032798

“…Nor are manuscript sources normally taken into consideration: apart from the chapters in which the letters included in ARCHER are discussed, and the chapter by McCafferty, which relies on correspondence, investigations deal with printed and/or mediated sources, such as the one by Claridge & Kytö, which analyses the proceedings of the Old Bailey and in which spoken language is of course represented in the clerks’ transcriptions. This seems odd in the light of the growing interest in so-called ‘ego documents’, and the fact that corpora based on them are slowly becoming available – see Auer, Schreier & Watts (2015) and the studies in Dossena (2015). In addition, the Corpus of Early English Correspondence has been extended to include the eighteenth century (see ) and the Salamanca Corpus (see ) is a treasure trove of texts which discuss and/or attempt to imitate spoken language in local varieties of Southern English.…”