Dr Christine Wallis
School of English
Teaching Associate
c.wallis@sheffield.ac.uk
Jessop West
Full contact details
Dr Christine Wallis
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
- Profile
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I have worked in research and teaching posts in the history of English at the universities of Newcastle, Sheffield, Manchester and Erlangen-Nürnberg. I gained my PhD at Sheffield, working on scribal behaviour in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.
- Research interests
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My research focuses on language variation and change in historical English, examining how ideas about language variation are reflected in the writing of individuals. I use historical sociolinguistic and philological methods to analyse material texts, and explore how language learning was transmitted, and how wider notions of linguistic norms or language standards impact on individual writers’ training and output. My research projects have involved the study of scribal behaviour in Old English manuscripts, multilingual medieval manuscripts for teaching Latin, and dialect and identity in eighteenth-century personal letters.
- Publications
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Edited books
- Studies in Late Modern English Historical Phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP). Cambridge University Press.
Journal articles
- Linguistic layers in John of Garland’s Dictionarius. Études Médiévales Anglaises, 102, 65-110. View this article in WRRO
- Using the eighteenth century English phonology database (ECEP) as a teaching resource. English Language and Linguistics, 24(Sp Issue 3), 591-606. View this article in WRRO
- En[dj]uring [ʧ]unes or ma[tj]ure [ʤ]ukes? Yod-coalescence and yod-dropping in the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology database. English Language and Linguistics, 24(3), 493-526. View this article in WRRO
- Special issue on studies in Late Modern English historical phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP): introduction. English Language and Linguistics, 24(3), 471-474. View this article in WRRO
- ‘Proper’ pro-nun-ſha- ſhun in eighteenth-century English: ECEP as a new tool for the study of historical phonology and dialectology. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 33(1), 203-227. View this article in WRRO
- Old English. Year's Work in English Studies 2016, 95(1), 200-232.
- Unpublished Dry-point Annotations in a Manuscript of the Old English Bede: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 279B. Medium Aevum, 85(1), 15-32. View this article in WRRO
- IIOld English. The Year's Work in English Studies, 94(1), 127-152.
- ‘ “Hu mæg ure geferscipe beon gewissod butan geþeahtere?” Ælfric’s Colloquy and Latin Learning in Anglo-Saxon England’. Track Changes(3), 35-49. View this article in WRRO
- Personal names in medieval libri vitæ as a sociolinguistic resource. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 9(1), 129-161. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- Philological approaches In Condorelli M & Rutkowska H (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography (pp. 338-359). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. View this article in WRRO
- Linguistic repertoires and intra-writer variation in Old English: Hemming of Worcester In Schiegg M & Huber J (Ed.), Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics (pp. 451-472). Peter Lang View this article in WRRO
- Conservatism and innovation in Anglo-Saxon scribal practice In Petre P, Cuyckens H & D'Hoedt F (Ed.), Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English (pp. 79-102). John Benjamins View this article in WRRO
- 'The Old English Bede: Scribal Strategy and Invention in MS. CCCC41' In Hejná M, Filipová H & Znojemská H (Ed.), Freond ic gemete wið: Perspectives on Medieval Britain; Language, Literature, Society Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.
- ‘Layers of Reading in the Old English Bede: The Case of Oxford Corpus Christi College 279B’ In Jucker A, Landert D, Seiler A & Studer-Joho N (Ed.), Meaning in the History of English Words and Texts in Context (pp. 19-39). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Book reviews
- Olga Timofeeva: Sociolinguistic variation in Old English: Records of communities of people (Advances in historical sociolinguistics 13). Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 9(2), 329-333. View this article in WRRO
- Review of Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg (eds.). 2020. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters. Amsterdam: Benjamins.. LINGUIST List, 32. View this article in WRRO
- Book review: Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Gerald P. Dyson. Boydell and Brewer, 2019. x + 286 pages, £60. ISBN: 9781783273669.. TOEBI Newsletter, 37, 102-106. View this article in WRRO
- The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English, vol. II). Linguist List(28.4927).
- Frederick Klaeber, A Commentary on the Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES, 92(4), 1207-1208. View this article in WRRO
- Review of Donka Minkova (2014), A Historical Phonology of English. Linguist List(25.4162).
- Book Review: Míša Hejná & George Walkden. A History of English (Textbooks in Language Sciences 9). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 439. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6560337.. Journal of Historical Linguistics. View this article in WRRO
Website content
- The Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database.
Theses / Dissertations
- The Old English Bede: Transmission and Textual History in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.
Datasets
- Studies in Late Modern English Historical Phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP). Cambridge University Press.
- Teaching activities
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I teach on the following modules:
- EGH 108 Early Englishes
- EGH 214 Exiles and Monsters: An Introduction to Old English
- EGH 104 Varieties of English
- EGH 107 History of English
I also contribute to MA teaching on topics in historical English.