The nature of Old English dialect distributions, mainly as exhibited in charter boundaries

31 Middle English: Dialects

“…The direct sources of the linguistic information for Middle English are provided by the written forms found in the extant texts. That Old English was more varied in writing than the West Saxon literary texts of the 10th and 11th centuries would suggest is evident from the English to be found in charters, whether contemporary, or later copies preserving the Old English text, as Peter Kitson has demonstrated (Kitson 1993(Kitson , 1995. The regional variants which are characteristic of Middle English did not arise ex nihilo.…”

Timofeeva, Olga. 2022. Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English. Records of Communities of People. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xv + 204. ISBN 9789027211347.

“…University of Seville Since the publication of LALME (1986), there have been discussions about the feasibility of the study of Old English dialects (Hogg 1988;Lowe 2001) and attempts to apply the methods of contemporary dialectology (the fit technique developed by Angus McIntosh and associates) to Old English texts (Kitson 1990(Kitson , 1993(Kitson , 1995(Kitson , 1996. In a similar way, Old English scholars have long considered approaching the linguistic variation in Old English from a sociolinguistic perspective and with sociolinguistic methods of analysis (the work of Toon [1983Toon [ , 1992 is a good example).…”

14 Linguistic Levels: Onomastics

“…On a national scale, they facilitate the mapping of synonyms, an approach taken in Kitson's (1995) investigation of Old English dialect isoglosses, and in studies of the distribution of complementary terms such as whin, gorse, and furze (e.g. On a national scale, they facilitate the mapping of synonyms, an approach taken in Kitson's (1995) investigation of Old English dialect isoglosses, and in studies of the distribution of complementary terms such as whin, gorse, and furze (e.g.…”