Margaret Laing
List of John Benjamins publications in which Margaret Laing is involved.
Articles
2010 The reflexes of OE beon as a marker of futurity in early Middle English English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008., Lenker, Ursula, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer (eds.), pp. 237–254 | Chapter
In Old English the finite forms of the bLroot for ‘be’ (beo, bist, bið, etc.) were more likely to appear in contexts involving futurity than the sLroot (eom, eart, is, etc). The use of the bLroot for future continues into Middle English. During the compilation of LAEME, we have observed that the… read more
2008 The early Middle English scribe: Sprach er wie er schrieb? English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dossena, Marina, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti (eds.), pp. 1–44 | Article
Written Middle English is not phonetic transcript. The sound-pattern is not directly known, but has to be reconstructed – from, among other things, written forms interpreted in the light of the particular spelling systems to which they belong. Pronunciation is an object of discovery, not a premiss:… read more
2004 The archaeology of medieval texts Categorization in the History of English, Kay, Christian and Jeremy J. Smith (eds.), pp. 85–146 | Article