Language of the Peterborough Chronicle

The Editors: Alexander Bergs is professor and chair of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Osnabrück. Janne Skaffari is senior lecturer (acting) at the University of Turku.

• Contents: Alexander Bergs/Janne Skaffari: Invitation to the Peterborough Chronicle and its language – Malasree Home: The Peterborough Chronicle in context – Betty S. Phillips: Æ-raising in the Peterborough Chronicle – Alexander Bergs: Spoilt for choice? problem <ÞE> in <ÐE> Peterborough Chronicle – Agnieszka Pysz: The usage of demonstratives in the Peterborough Chronicle against the background of the Old English paradigm – Cynthia L. Allen: The case of the genitive in the Peterborough Continuations – Elly Van Gelderen: Accelerated grammaticalization in the Peterborough Chronicle – Lynn Sims: Do the verb-movement patterns in the Peterborough Chronicle reflect the influence of a Northern dialect? – Bridget Drinka: The periphrastic perfect in early English: Evidence from the Peterborough Chronicle – Oliver M. Traxel: Linking Old English and Middle English: The Peterborough Chronicle as an introductory tool to the History of English – Carol Percy: ‘To HEL with PC’: Teaching ‘The History of the English Language’ with the Peterborough Chronicle in North America.