31215 20150429092420.0 TAZ-TFG-2014-2536 eng Buñuel Martínez, Marta Dialect Diversity in the Middle English Period Zaragoza Universidad de Zaragoza 2014 by-nc-sa Creative Commons 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Languages around the world are not homogeneous. Any language is bound to suffer dialect variation within its grammar, lexis, and pronunciation and Great Britain is not an exception. There was a time in the UK when differences were at their peak. That happened during the Middle English period. The main issue of this paper is to comment on the most relevant differences within two great dialectal areas of Great Britain –North and South– by focusing on two texts from that period, specifically, from the 14th century. Therefore, the differences shown are a matter of geography, rather than chronological. Each text –the Northern manuscript The Bee and the Stork and the Southern text Ayenbite of Inwyt– has been analyzed both syntactically and morphologically in order to find out the most remarkable differences between them. This paper concludes with an explanation of the most relevant differences according to dialect and their gradual homogeneity as a consequence of the development of Standard English in the 15th century. Graduado en Estudios Ingleses Derechos regulados por licencia Creative Commons Hornero Corisco, Ana dir. Universidad de Zaragoza Filología Inglesa y Alemana Filología Inglesa 634714@celes.unizar.es 687127 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/31215/files/TAZ-TFG-2014-2536.pdf Memoria (eng) Memoria (eng) oai:zaguan.unizar.es:31215 driver trabajos-fin-grado deposita:2015-04-21 TAZ TFG FFYL