The book is a study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs with the prefix be- in prose texts. Before, beyond, behind, beneath, between and betwixt are analysed for the semantics, textual and dialectal distribution and frequency, synchronic and diachronic. The study draws on full texts from the Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose.
Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland). Her research interests focus on various aspects of English historical linguistics, in particular Old and Middle English semantics, dialectology, morphosyntax and word-formation.