In this collection of recent linguistic research, international contributors present the latest perspectives on sounds and spellings, words and phrases, conjunctions and clauses, dialects and
their representation, and scholars, authors, and their use of the past. Some specific subjects addressed include Middle English, the elimination of velar fricatives, secondary agent
constructions from a diachronic perspective, and J. R. R. Tolkien and the historical study of English. Two chapters are devoted to studies of the language in Beowulf: the chain-mail coat
terminology and the dating of Beowulf, and the historical and intellectual contexts of Chinese translations of Beowulf. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
