Merja Stenroos
List of John Benjamins publications in which Merja Stenroos is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2214-1057
Titles
Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people from a wide range of social, institutional and geographical backgrounds.… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 11] 2020. ix, 310 pp.
Language Contact and Development around the North Sea
Edited by Merja Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim
This volume brings together eleven studies on the history of language and writing in the North Sea area, with focus on contacts and interchanges through time. Its range spans from the investigation of pre-Germanic place-names to present-day Shetland; the materials studied include glosses, legal and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 321] 2012. xvi, 235 pp.
2020 Chapter 8. Land documents as a source of word geography Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents, Stenroos, Merja and Kjetil V. Thengs (eds.), pp. 175–202 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 5. Regional variation and supralocalization in late medieval English: Comparing administrative and literary texts Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents, Stenroos, Merja and Kjetil V. Thengs (eds.), pp. 95–128 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 11. Multilingual practices in Middle English documents Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents, Stenroos, Merja and Kjetil V. Thengs (eds.), pp. 249–277 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 4. The geography of Middle English documentary texts Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents, Stenroos, Merja and Kjetil V. Thengs (eds.), pp. 69–92 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 1. Local documents as source material for the study of late medieval English Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents, Stenroos, Merja and Kjetil V. Thengs (eds.), pp. 3–22 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 3. The categorization of Middle English documents: Interactions of function, form and language Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents, Stenroos, Merja and Kjetil V. Thengs (eds.), pp. 37–68 | Chapter
2010 The pronoun of address in Piers Plowman: Authorial and scribal usage Journal of Historical Pragmatics 11:1, pp. 1–31 | Article
This paper is a study of the singular pronoun of address in Piers Plowman. Previous studies have held that Langland’s use of second-person pronouns conformed to the Old English system where the distinction between the thou and ye type pronouns was strictly based on number. This view has accorded… read more