Tuesday and Thursday of this week

ENG 85 11 March 2008
Today: Freeborn 14, Early Modern English of the C15: Margery Kempe and the Paston Letters.
Next time: Caxton’s Prefaces to Eneydos, and to Malory’s Morte Arthure; Review of the exam, and looking ahead at an updated schedule.

Guidelines for Semantic Histories

An SH should include most or all of the following elements:

a brief explanation of how you came across your word, and what interests you about it.
the context where your word is usually found (i.e. what sociolinguistic domain, if it is particularly prevalent in a particular context)
A summary of the evidence you are using to discuss [...]

Feb. 14 – Class in Session

We will be meeting for class on Feb. 14. My paleography workshop was canceled at the last minute. See you then.