In:Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English: Records of communities and people
Olga Timofeeva
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 13] 2022
► pp. 109–139
Chapter 6Wills
Variation by archive and gender
Published online: 19 July 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.13.c6
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.13.c6
Article outline
- 6.1The corpus of wills
- 6.2Function and orality of wills
- 6.3Types of wills
- 6.4The protocol of wills
- 6.5Case study: Variation by subperiod and archive
- 6.5.1Dispositive verbs
- 6.5.2(ge)unnan + land objects
- 6.5.3‘after my death’ adverbials
- 6.6Case study: Variation by gender
- 6.6.1Soliciting patronage
- 6.6.2Cursing
- 6.6.2.1The curse of Cnut and Emma
- 6.7Case study: Sociolinguistic outliers
- 6.7.1The will of Leofgifu
- 6.7.2The will of Mantat
- 6.8Conclusions
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