List of tables
Table 1.1
Major text categories in DOEC
13
Table 1.2
A sample of major prose genres in DOEC
17
Table 1.3
A sample of major prose authors in DOEC
18
Table 1.4
Prototypical text categories and text types included in the Old English part of the Helsinki Corpus
21
Table 1.5
Text-category affiliations of the texts in this study
22
Table 3.1
PASE 2 Database Records: Statistics
53
Table 3.2
Famous Anglo-Saxon names by frequency in PASE 2
54
Table 3.3
Anglo-Saxon religious status/office/occupation in PASE 2
57
Table 3.4
Anglo-Saxon secular status/office/occupation in PASE 2
57
Table 4.1
Dispositive verbs in Kentish charters
81
Table 4.2
Dispositive verbs in Mercian charters
82
Table 4.3
Dispositive verbs in West Saxon charters
82
Table 4.4
Dispositive verbs by region
43
Table 4.5
Person and number of dispositive verbs by region
83
Table 5.1
Distribution of writs by issuer
89
Table 6.1
Distribution of Old English wills by archive
110
Table 6.2
Distribution of prefatory clauses by archive
115
Table 6.3
Distribution of dispositive verbs in Old English wills by type
117
Table 6.4
Distribution of (ge)unnan by region
118
Table 6.5
Variation between (ge)unnan as majority variant and other verbs by subperiod
118
Table 6.6
Distribution of (ge)unnan and sellan in legal vs. non-legal texts in DOEC
119
Table 6.7
Distribution of landes-GEN vs. land-ACC after (ge)unnan by archive
120
Table 6.8
Distribution of ofer POSS dæg-ACC and æfter POSS dæge-DAT in wills by archive
121
Table 6.9
Distribution of ofer POSS dæg-ACC and æfter POSS dæge-DAT in all charter types by archive (adjusted by majority type)
122
Table 6.10
Distribution of ofer POSS dæg-ACC and æfter POSS dæge-DAT in charters vs. wills (adjusted by majority type)
122
Table 6.11a
Distribution of ofer POSS dæg-ACC and æfter POSS dæge-DAT in wills by gender (adjusted by majority type)
123
Table 6.11b
Distribution of ofer POSS dæg-ACC and æfter POSS dæge-DAT in wills by gender (by token)
123
Table 6.12
Distribution of anglo-Saxon wills by gender
124
Table 7.1
Distribution of English vs. Norman loan types by category
153