Chapter 1. Local documents as source material for the study of late medieval English

Stenroos, Merja; Thengs, Kjetil V.

doi:10.1075/ahs.11.01ste

In:Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 11] 2020
► pp. 3–22

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Chapter 1
Local documents as source material for the study of late medieval English

Merja Stenroos | University of Stavanger

Kjetil V. Thengs | University of Stavanger

Published online: 10 December 2020

https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.11.01ste

Article outline

1.1Introduction
1.2The present approach
- 1.2.1Basic principles
- 1.2.2Written and spoken language
- 1.2.3The formulaicness of documentary texts
- 1.2.4Formulating research questions
1.3The material: Middle English local documents
1.4A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD)
1.5The structure of this book
Notes

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Chapter 1Local documents as source material for the study of late medieval English

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Chapter 1
Local documents as source material for the study of late medieval English