Books
Laing, M. 1993. A Catalogue of
Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer.
Papers
Lass, R. and Laing, M. 2016 (in press). Q is for what, when, where?: the ‘q’ spellings for OE hw-. Folia Linguistica Historica 37.
Laing, M. and Lass, R. 2014. On Middle English she, sho: A refurbished narrative Folia Linguistica Historica 35, 1: 201-240
Lass, R. and Laing, M. 2013. The early Middle English reflexes of Germanic *ik ‘I’: unpacking the changes. Folia Linguistica Historica 34, 1: 93-114.
Lass, R. and Laing, M. 2012. ‘ea’ in Early Middle English: from diphthong to digraph. In . Denison, D., Bermudez-Otero, R., McCully, C. & Moore, E. (eds.). Analysing Older English. Cambridge University Press, p. 75-117.
Laing, M. 2010. The reflexes of OE beon as a marker of futurity in Early Middle English. In Lenker, U., Huber, J. & Mailhammer, R. (eds.), English Historical Linguistics 2008: The History of English verbal and nominal constructions. John Benjamins Pub Co, Vol. I, p. 237-254 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; vol. 314).
Laing, M. and Lass, R. 2010. Raiders of the lost archetype: eo in the strong verbs of classes IV and V. Transactions of the philological society 108, 2: 145-163
Lass, R. and Laing, M. 2010. In celebration of early middle English ‘H’. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 111, 3: 345-354.
Laing, M. 2009. Weak segments in early Middle English.
In Minkova, D. (ed.)
Phonological Weakness in English:
From Old to Present-Day English. Palgrave Studies in Language
History and Language Change. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 237-315.
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Laing, M. and Lass, R. 2009. Shape-shifting,
sound change and the genesis of prodigal writing systems, English Language and Linguistics 13.1.
Lass, R. and Laing, M. 2009. Databases,
Dictionaries and Dialectology. Dental Instability in Early Middle
English: A Case Study. In Dossena, M. and Lass R. (eds.). Perspectives on Dialectology. Bern: Peter Lang.
Laing, M. 2008. The Middle English scribe: sprach er wie er schrieb?. In Dossena, M., Dury,
R. and Gotti, M. (eds), English Historical
Liguistics 2006. Volume III: Geo-historical Variation. CILT 297.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-44.
Laing, M. 2007. The Owl and the Nightingale: five new
readings and further notes, Neuphilologische
Mitteilungen 108: 445-477.
Laing, M. and Lass, R. 2006. Early Middle English
dialectology: problems and prospects. In van Kemenade, A. and Los, B.L.
(eds.) Handbook of the History of English.
Oxford: Blackwell. 417-41
Lass, R. and Laing, M. 2006. $ho:fian{*}/vK2: A
LAEME-based Lexical Study. In Caie, G., Hough, C. and Wotherspoon, I.
(eds.) The Power of Words: Essays in Lexicography,
Lexicology and Semantics in honour of Christian Kay. Amsterdam:
Rodopi. 79-91
Laing, M. and Lass, R. 2005. Early Middle English
KNIGHT: (Pseudo)metathesis and lexical specificity, Neuphilologische
Mitteilungen 106: 405-423
Lass, R. and Laing, M. 2005. Are front rounded vowels
retained in West Midland Middle English?. In Ritt, N. and Schendl, H.
(eds.) Rethinking Middle English. Linguistic and
literary approaches, Studies in English Medieval Language and
Literature 10. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 280-290
Laing, M. 2004. Multidimensionality: time, space and
stratigraphy in historical dialectology. In Dossena, M. and Lass, R.
(eds.) Methods and Data in Historical Dialectology.
Bern: Peter Lang. 49-96
Laing, M. and Williamson, K. 2004. The Archaeology of
Middle English Texts. In Kay, C.J. and Smith, J.J. (eds.) Categorization in the History of English, Current
Issues in Linguistic Theory 261. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. 85-145
Lass, R. 2004. Ut custodiant litteras: editions,
corpora and witnesshood. In Dossena, M. and Lass, R. (eds.) Methods and Data in Historical Dialectology. Bern:
Peter Lang. 21-48
Laing, M. and Lass, R. 2003. Tales of the 1001 Nists.
The Phonological Implications of Litteral Substitution Sets in
13th-century South-West-Midland texts, English
Language and Linguistics 7(2): 122.
Laing, M. 2002. Corpus-provoked questions about
negation in early Middle English, Language Sciences
24: 297-321
Laing, M. 2001. Words reread. Middle English Writing
Systems and the Dictionary, Linguistica e Filologia
13: 87-129
Laing, M. 2000. "Never the twain shall meet" early
Middle English the east west divide. In Taavitsainen, I. et al. (ed.)
Placing Middle English in Context. Berlin and New
York: Mouton de Gruyter. 97-124
Laing, M. 2000. The Linguistic Stratification of the
Middle English Texts in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 101: 523-569
Laing, M. 1999. Confusion wrs confounded: litteral
substitution sets in early Middle English writing systems, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 100: 251-269
Laing, M. 1998. Raising a Stink in The Owl and the
Nightingale: a New Reading at Line 115, Notes and
Queries 243: 276-284
Laing, M. 1998. Notes on Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS
Digby 86, The Names of a Hare in English, Medium
Ævum 67: 21-211
Laing, M. 1998. Three notes on Dame Sirith, Oxford
Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 86, fols. 165r-168r, Neuphilologische
Mitteilungen 99: 401-409
Laing, M. 1998. Linguistic and textual relationships
between the Corpus, Nero and Vernon Manuscripts of Ancrene Riwle a
response, Medieval English Studies Newsletter
38: 416. University of Tokyo.
Laing, M. 1997. A fourteenth-century sermon on the
number seven in Merton College, Oxford, MS 248, Neuphilologische
Mitteilungen 108: 99-134
Laing, M. and McIntosh, A. 1995. Cambridge, Trinity
College, MS 335 (B.14.52): its Texts and Their Transmission. In Beadle,
R. and Piper, A. (eds.) New Science out of Old
Books: Studies in honour of A.I. Doyle. Aldershot: Scolar Press.
14-52
Laing, M. and McIntosh, A. 1995. The Language of
Ancrene Riwle, the Katherine Group Texts and Þe Wohunge of ure Lauerd
in BL Cotton Titus D xviii, Neuphilologische
Mitteilungen 96: 235-263
Laing, M. 1995. A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle
English, Medieval English Studies Newsletter
33: 18. University of Tokyo.
Laing, M. 1994. The linguistic analysis of medieval
vernacular texts: two projects at Edinburgh. In Kytö, M. et al. (ed.) Corpora across the Centuries: Proceedings of the First
International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora.
Amsterdam: Rodopi. 121-141
Laing, M. 1991. Anchor Texts and Literary Manuscripts
in Early Middle English. In Riddy, F. (ed.) Essays
Celebrating the Publication of the Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval
English, York Manuscripts Conferences Proceedings Series 2.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. 27-52