"No botmeles bihestes": Various ways of making binding promises in Middle English

Pakkala-Weckström, Mari

doi:10.1075/pbns.176.08pak

In:Speech Acts in the History of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 176] 2008
► pp. 133–162

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"No botmeles bihestes": Various ways of making binding promises in Middle English

Mari Pakkala-Weckström

Published online: 10 April 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.176.08pak

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