Publications
2024
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. (Accepted/In press). Personal Pronoun they: A Native-origin Account. (New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics.). Palgrave Macmillan.
2023
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. (2023). Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian. Notes and Queries, 70(3), 126–131. https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjad052/7232522?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=nq&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=2dc01bfa-69ba-4149-b0fa-f613b782d407
Cole, M., & Pons-Sanz, S. M. (2023). Origin and Spread of the Personal Pronoun They: La Estorie del Evangelie, a Case Study: Medieval English in a Multilingual Context: Current Methodologies and Approaches. In S. M. Pons-Sanz, & L. Sylvester (Eds.), Medieval English in a Multilingual Context: Current Methodologies and Approaches. (pp. 311-342). (New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics). Palgrave Macmillan.
2022
Scholarly publications
Cole, M., & Laker, S. (2022). The Contact History of English. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.929
2021
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. (2021). An Old English Progenitor for Middle English Accusative his. Notes and queries for readers and writers, collectors and librarians, 68(1), 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaa181
2020
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. P. J. (2020). Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los & Benjamin Molineaux (eds.): Historical dialectology in the digital age. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 274. Journal of Linguistics, 56(1), 197-200. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226719000410
2019
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. P. J. (2019). Towards a nuanced history of early English spelling: Old Northumbrian witnesses and northern orthography. In A. Auer, D. Renevey, C. Marshall, & T. Oudesluijs (Eds.), Revisiting the medieval north of England: Interdisciplinary approaches (pp. 243-278). University of Wales Press.
Cole, M. P. J. (2019). Subject and adjacency effects in the Old Northumbrian gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. English Language and Linguistics, 23(1), 131-154. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674317000338
2018
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. (2018). A Native Origin for Present-Day English they, their, them. Diachronica, 35(2), 165-209. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.16026.col
2017
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. P. J. (2017). Pronominal anaphoric strategies in the West Saxon dialect of Old English. English Language and Linguistics, 21(2), 381-408 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S136067431700020X
2016
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. P. J. (2016). The Lexical Effects of Anglo-Scandinavian Linguistic Contact in Old English by Sara M. Pons-Sanz. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 115(4), 496-498. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.115.4.0496
Cole, M. (2016). Identifying the Author(s) of the Lindisfarne Gloss: Linguistic Variation as a Diagnostic for Determining Authorship. In J. Fernández Cuesta , & S. M. Pons-Sanz (Eds.), The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Language, Author and Context (pp. 169-188). (Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series; Vol. 51). Mouton de Gruyter.
2015
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. (2015). The Periphrastic Subjunctive in the Old English Multiple Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels. In P. Sundkvist, P. Shaw, B. Erman, & G. Melchers (Eds.), From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today: Essays in honour of Nils-Lennart Johannesson (pp. 71-86). (Stockholm English Studies; Vol. 2). Stockholm University Press.
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Other output
Cole, M. P. J. (2015). Tracing the Linguistic Path of the Old English Demonstrative Pronoun from Old Northumbrian to Late Northern Middle English. Paper presented at Interdisciplinary perspectives on the North of England in the later Middle Ages, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Cole, M. P. J. (2015). The History of the Third-Person Personal Pronoun in English: A Reconsideration.. Paper presented at 13th York-Newcastle-Holland Symposium on the History of English Syntax, Leiden, Netherlands.
2014
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. (2014). Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule. (NOWELE Supplement Series). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/nss.25
Other output
Cole, M. (2014). ‘They laugh that wins’: morphosyntactic variation and competing agreement systems in Early Modern English. Paper presented at Historical perspectives on English Urban Vernaculars Symposium, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Cole, M. P. J. (2014). Verbal morphosyntactic variation in early English Dialect”, Early English Dialect Morphosyntax Workshop. Paper presented at Scientific committee member - 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Leuven.
Cole, M. P. J. (2014). Where did THEY come from? A native origin for THEY, THEIR, THEM. Paper presented at Scientific committee member - 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Leuven.
2012
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. (2012). The Old English origins of the Northern Subject Rule: evidence from the Lindisfarne gloss to the Gospels of John and Mark. In Language Contact and Development around the North Sea (pp. 141-168). (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory ; Vol. 321). John Benjamins.
2008
Scholarly publications
Cole, M. (2008). What is the Northern Subject Rule? The resilience of a medieval constraint in Tyneside English. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (SELIM), 15, 91-114.