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Table 1.1Major text categories in DOEC 13

Table 1.2A sample of major prose genres in DOEC 17

Table 1.3A sample of major prose authors in DOEC 18

Table 1.4Prototypical text categories and text types included in the Old English part of the Helsinki Corpus 21

Table 1.5Text-category affiliations of the texts in this study 22

Table 3.1PASE 2 Database Records: Statistics 53

Table 3.2Famous Anglo-Saxon names by frequency in PASE 2 54

Table 3.3Anglo-Saxon religious status/office/occupation in PASE 2 57

Table 3.4Anglo-Saxon secular status/office/occupation in PASE 2 57

Table 4.1Dispositive verbs in Kentish charters 81

Table 4.2Dispositive verbs in Mercian charters 82

Table 4.3Dispositive verbs in West Saxon charters 82

Table 4.4Dispositive verbs by region 43

Table 4.5Person and number of dispositive verbs by region 83

Table 5.1Distribution of writs by issuer 89

Table 6.1Distribution of Old English wills by archive 110

Table 6.2Distribution of prefatory clauses by archive 115

Table 6.3Distribution of dispositive verbs in Old English wills by type 117

Table 6.4Distribution of (ge)unnan by region 118

Table 6.5Variation between (ge)unnan as majority variant and other verbs by subperiod 118

Table 6.6Distribution of (ge)unnan and sellan in legal vs. non-legal texts in DOEC 119

Table 6.7Distribution of landes-GEN vs. land-ACC after (ge)unnan by archive 120

Table 6.8Distribution of ofer POSS dæg-ACC and æfter POSS dæge-DAT in wills by archive 121

Table 6.9Distribution of ofer POSS dæg-ACC and æfter POSS dæge-DAT in all charter types by archive (adjusted by majority type) 122

Table 6.10Distribution of ofer POSS dæg-ACC and æfter POSS dæge-DAT in charters vs. wills (adjusted by majority type) 122

Table 6.11aDistribution of ofer POSS dæg-ACC and æfter POSS dæge-DAT in wills by gender (adjusted by majority type) 123

Table 6.11bDistribution of ofer POSS dæg-ACC and æfter POSS dæge-DAT in wills by gender (by token) 123

Table 6.12Distribution of anglo-Saxon wills by gender 124

Table 7.1Distribution of English vs. Norman loan types by category 153