Professor Jeremy Smith
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow (School of Critical Studies)
email:
Jeremy.Smith@glasgow.ac.uk
University of Glasgow, 5 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8JQ
Publications
2024
Smith, J. (2024) On “standard” written English in the later Middle Ages. Speculum, 99(3), pp. 762-779. (doi: 10.1086/730766)
Smith, J. J. (2024) Pragmatics in the History of English by Laurel J. Brinton Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hardback), 2023. xiv + 256. ISBN: 9781009322928. Journal of English Linguistics, (doi: 10.1177/00754242241253618)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)
Smith, J. J. (2024) The pragmatics of punctuation in the letters of Robert Burns. In: Carruthers, G. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 66-80. ISBN 9780198846246 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198846246.013.6)
Smith, J. (2024) The early book in Scotland. In: Carruthers, G. (ed.) A Companion to Scottish Literature. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (109). Wiley Blackwell: Chichester, pp. 167-179. ISBN 9781119651444 (doi: 10.1002/9781119651550.ch14)
2023
Jasper, D. and Smith, J. (2023) Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England: Thomas Frederick Simmons and the Lay Folks' Mass Book. Series: Medievalism, 26. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781783277483
Smith, J. (2023) The Arabic element in Scots lexis. Anglica, 32(4), pp. 43-59. (doi: 10.7311/Anglica/32.4)
Smith, J. J. (2023) Contextualising Middle English liturgical commentaries. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 87, pp. 69-86. (doi: 10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.87.04)
2022
Iyeiri, Y., Yadomi, H., Selfe, D. and Smith, J. (Eds.) (2022) Variational Studies on Pronominal Forms in the History of English. Series: Studies in the history of the English language. Kaitakusha: Tokyo. ISBN 9784758923835
Smith, J. (2022) On the power of writing. In: Nichols, B. and Taylor, N. (eds.) The End of the Church? Conversations With the Work of David Jasper. Sacristy Press: Durham, pp. 208-226. ISBN 9781789592528
Taavitsainen, I., Hiltunen, T., Smith, J. J. and Suhr, C. (Eds.) (2022) Genre in English Medical Writing 1500-1820: Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use. Series: Studies in English language. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781009100090
Smith, J. (2022) Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle, and Early Modern English (third edition). Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032058481 (doi: 10.4324/9781003199472)
2021
Smith, J. J. (2021) The manuscripts of the Middle English Lay Folks’ Mass Book in context. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 56(s1), pp. 361-385. (doi: 10.2478/stap-2021-0002)
Smith, J. J. (2021) Lexical choices in Early Modern English devotional prose. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 22(2), pp. 264-282. (doi: 10.1075/jhp.00056.smi)
2020
Smith, J. (2020) Methodising Scots: the cases of Allan Ramsay and Thomas Ruddiman. Studies in Scottish Literature, 46(2), pp. 127-147.
Smith, J. J. (2020) The pragmatics of punctuation in Middle English documentary texts. In: Stenroos, M. and Thengs, K. V. (eds.) Records of Real People: Linguistic Variation in Middle English Local documents. Series: Advances in historical sociolinguistics (11). John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam, pp. 205-218. ISBN 9789027207951 (doi: 10.1075/ahs.11.09smi)
Smith, J. J. (2020) Recuperating Older Scots in the early 18th century. In: Peikola, M. and Bös, B. (eds.) The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical Approaches to Paratext and Metadiscourse in English. Series: Pragmatics and beyond new series (317). John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, pp. 267-287. ISBN 9789027207883 (doi: 10.1075/pbns.317.11smi)
Smith, J. J. (2020) Godly vocabulary in Early Modern English religious debate. In: Jonsson, E. and Larsson, T. (eds.) Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-Related and Spoken Texts, in Honor of Merja Kyto. Series: Studies in corpus linguistics (97). John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, pp. 96-112. ISBN 9789027207654 (doi: 10.1075/scl.97.07smi)
Smith, J. J. (2020) Thomas Becket: Damnatio Memoriae and the marking of books. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 20(3-4), pp. 274-294. (doi: 10.1080/1474225X.2020.1863690)
Smith, J. J. (2020) Charles d'Orleans and his finding of English. In: Perry, R.D. and Arn, M.-J. (eds.) Charles d'Orléans' English Aesthetic: the Form, Poetics, and Style of Fortunes Stabilnes. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 189-220. ISBN 9781843845676
Smith, J. J. (2020) Transforming Early English: the Reinvention of Early English and Older Scots. Series: Studies in English language. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781108420389
Smith, J. (2020) On scriptae: correlating spelling and script in late Middle English. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 80, pp. 13-27. (doi: 10.25145/j.recaesin.2020.80.0)
2019
Jasper, D. and Smith, J. (2019) 'The Lay Folks' Mass Book' and Thomas Frederick Simmons: medievalism and the Tractarians. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 70(4), pp. 785-804. (doi: 10.1017/S002204691900054X)
Smith, J. J. (2019) Chaucer and London English. In: Johnson, I. (ed.) Geoffrey Chaucer in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 35-42. ISBN 9781107035645 (doi: 10.1017/9781139565141)
Smith, J. J. (2019) Chaucer's linguistic invention. In: Johnson, I. (ed.) Geoffrey Chaucer in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 27-34. ISBN 9781107035645 (doi: 10.1017/9781139565141)
2018
Smith, J. (2018) The inventions of Sir Thomas Urquhart. In: Petrina, A. and Johnson, I. (eds.) The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing. Medieval Institute Publications. ISBN 9781580442817 (hbk.) 9781580447824 (ebk.)
2017
Smith, J. J. (2017) From secreit script to public print: punctuation, news management and the condemnation of the Earl of Bothwell. Huntington Library Quarterly, 80(2), pp. 223-238.
Smith, J. J. (2017) The afterlives of Nicholas Love. Studia Neophilologica, 89(Sup1), pp. 59-74. (doi: 10.1080/00393274.2017.1354718)
2016
Stenroos, M. and Smith, J. (2016) Changing functions: English spelling before 1600. In: Cook, V. and Ryan, D. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System. Series: Routledge handbooks in linguistics. Routledge: London, pp. 125-142. ISBN 9780415715973
Smith, J. (2016) The evolution of Old and Middle English texts: linguistic form and practices of literacy. In: Machan, T. W. (ed.) Imagining Medieval English: Language Structures and Theories, 500–1500. Series: Cambridge studies in medieval literature (95). Cambridge University Press, pp. 34-53. ISBN 9781107058590
Smith, J. (2016) Scots and English across the Union: linguistic connexions and contrasts. Scottish Literary Review, 8(1), pp. 17-32.
2015
Smith, J. (2015) The historical evolution of English pronunciation. In: Reed, M. and Levis, J. (eds.) The Handbook of English Pronunciation. Series: Blackwell handbooks in linguistics. Wiley Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781118314470 (doi: 10.1002/9781118346952.ch1)
Taavitsainen, I., Kytö, M., Claridge, C. and Smith, J. (Eds.) (2015) Developments in English: expanding electronic evidence. Series: Studies in English language. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107038509
2014
Smith, J. (2014) Digital Humanities and the 'new' new philology. In: Linguistics Insights, Alcala de Henares, Spain, Sep 2013, pp. 19-40.
2013
Smith, J. (2013) Punctuating Mirk’s Festial: a Scottish text and its implications. In: Driver, M. and O'Mara, V. (eds.) Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England. Series: Sermo (11). Brepols: Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 161-192. ISBN 9782503541853
Smith, J. (2013) Punctuation in the letters of Archibald Campbell, Lord Ilay (1682-1761). In: Anderson, W. (ed.) Language in Scotland: Corpus-Based Studies. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 27-44. ISBN 9789042037182
Smith, J. (2013) Textual afterlives: Barbour’s Bruce and Hary’s Wallace. In: Kirk, J. and Macleod, I. (eds.) Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language. Rodopi: Amsterdam, pp. 37-69. ISBN 9789042037397
Smith, J.J. (2013) Mapping the language of the Vernon manuscript. In: Scase, W. (ed.) The Making of the Vernon Manuscript. Series: Texts and transitions. Brepols: Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 49-70. ISBN 9782503530468
2012
Fitzmaurice, S. and Smith, J. (2012) Evidence for the history of English. In: Nevalainen, T. and Closs Traugott, E. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford University Press: Oxford/New York. ISBN 9780199922765
Smith, J. (2012) The Historiography of the English Language. In: Bergs, A. and Brinton, L. (eds.) English Historical Linguistics : an International Handbook. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110202205
Smith, J. (2012) Middle English. In: Bergs, A. and Brinton, L. (eds.) English Historical Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 32-48. ISBN 9783110202205
Smith, J. (2012) Middle English Syntax. In: Bergs, A. and Brinton, L. (eds.) English Historical Linguistics : an International Handbook. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110202205
Smith, J.J. (2012) Chaucer's use of the demonstrative. English Studies, 93(5), pp. 593-603. (doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2012.698537)
Smith, J.J. (2012) Language of the manuscripts. In: The Middle English Glossed Prose Psalter. Series: Middle English texts (45-46). Universitaetsverlag Winter: Heidelberg, Germany, xxxiv-xxxix. ISBN 9783825361280
Smith, J.J. (2012) Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader. Series: Scottish Text Society. Fifth series, 9. The Scottish Text Society/Boydell Press: Edinburgh/Woodbridge. ISBN 9781897976333
2011
Smith, J.J. and Kay, C. (2011) The pragmatics of punctuation in Older Scots. In: Pahta, P. and Jucker, A. (eds.) Communicating Early English Manuscripts. Series: Studies in English language. Cambridge University Press, pp. 212-225. ISBN 9780521193290
2010
Smith, J.J. (2010) Scots and English in the letters of John Knox. In: McGinley, K. and Royan, N. (eds.) The Apparelling of Truth: Literature and Literary Culture in the Reign of James VI : a Festschrift for Roderick J. Lyall. Cambridge Scholars. ISBN 9781443818735
2009
Smith, J.J. (2009) 'The metre which does not measure': the function of alliteration in Middle English alliterative poetry. In: Putter, A. and Jefferson, J.A. (eds.) Approaches to the Metres of Alliterative Verse. Series: Leeds Texts and Monographs: New Series (17). Leeds Studies in English: Leeds, UK, pp. 11-23. ISBN 9780853162766
Smith, J.J. (2009) Middle English: language. In: Corrie, M. (ed.) A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature. Series: Blackwell Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, USA, pp. 145-165. ISBN 9781405120043
Smith, J.J. (2009) Old English: a linguistic introduction. Series: Cambridge introductions to the English language. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521866774
Smith, J.J. (2009) The spellings e, ea and a in two Wooing Group texts (MSS London, Cotton Nero A.xiv and London, Lambeth Palace 487). In: Chewning, S.M. (ed.) The Milieu and the Context of the Wooing Group. University of Wales Press, pp. 84-95. ISBN 9780708320334
2008
Smith, J. (2008) Varieties of Middle English. In: Momma, H. and Matto, M. (eds.) A Companion to the History of the English Language. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (54). Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK, pp. 198-206. ISBN 9781405129923
Smith, J.J. (2008) The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and America by Richard Sher. Scottish Affairs, pp. 142-145. [Book Review]
Smith, J.J. (2008) Issues of linguistic categorisation in the evolution of written Middle English. In: Caie, G.D. and Renevey, D. (eds.) Medieval Texts in Context. Series: Context and genre in English literature. Routledge: London, UK, pp. 211-224. ISBN 9780415360258
Smith, J.J. (2008) Varieties of Middle English. In: Momma, H. and Matto, M. (eds.) A Companion to the History of the English Language. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (54). Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK, pp. 198-206. ISBN 9781405129923
2007
Smith, J.J. (2007) Sound change and the history of English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199291953
Smith, J.J. (2007) Copia Verborum: the linguistic choices of Robert Burns. Review in English Studies, 58(233), pp. 73-88. (doi: 10.1093/res/hgm002)
Corbett, J., Smith, J. , Anderson, W. , Bann, J., Beavan, D. and Anderson, J. (2007) CMSW (Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing). Other. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Smith, J.J. and McLeod, W. (2007) Resistance to monolinguality: the languages of Scotland since 1918. In: Brown, I. (ed.) The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 21-30. ISBN 9780748624829
2006
Smith, J.J. (2006) From middle to early modern English. In: Oxford History of English. Oxford University Press, pp. 120-146. ISBN 9780199249312
Smith, J.J. (2006) Notes on the medical vocabulary of John Keats. In: Kay, C., Caie, G.D., Hough, C. and Wotherspoon, I. (eds.) The Power of Words: Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics: In Honour of Christian J. Kay. Series: Costerus: new series (163). Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 159-169. ISBN 9789042021211
Smith, J.J. (2006) Phonaesthesia, ablaut and the history of the English demonstratives. In: Ritt, N. (ed.) Medieval English and its Heritage: Structure, Meaning and Mechanisms of Change. Series: Studies in English medieval language and literature (16). Peter Lang: Frankfurt, Germany, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9783631550069
Smith, J.J. (2006) Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations, Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons (eds) (Mouton de Bruyter: Berlin and New York, 2004). English Language and Linguistics, 10, pp. 401-403. [Book Review]
2005
Smith, J.J. (2005) Essentials of Early English. Routledge. ISBN 9780415342582
Smith, J.J. (2005) Language, class and region in late medieval England. Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature, 20, pp. 59-73.
Smith, J.J. (2005) Patterns of sound in Middle English and Older Scots verse. Poetica, 62, pp. 69-88.
2004
Kay, C.J. and Smith, J.J. (Eds.) (2004) Categorization in the History of English. Series: Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series 4: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Benjamins: Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9781588116192
Kay, C.J., Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (Eds.) (2004) New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics I: Syntax and Morphology. Benjamins: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789027247636
Kay, C.J., Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (Eds.) (2004) New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics II: Lexis and Transmission. Benjamins: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789027247650
Smith, J.J. (2004) Classifying the vowels of Middle English. In: Kay, C.J. and Smith, J.J. (eds.) Categorization in the History of English. Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 221-236. ISBN 9781588116192
Smith, J.J. (2004) Ideology and spelling in sixteenth-century England. Il Confronto Letterario, 40(Supple), pp. 11-24.
Smith, J.J. (2004) Introduction. In: Kay, C.J., Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (eds.) New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics 1: Syntax and Morphology. Benjamins: Amsterdam, ix-x. ISBN 9789027247636
Smith, J.J. (2004) John Gower and London English. In: Echard, S. (ed.) A Companion to Gower. D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, UK, pp. 61-72. ISBN 9781843840008
Smith, J.J. (2004) Marginal glosses in Sir John Cheke's translation of the Bible. In: Matsuda, T., Linenthal, R.A., Scahill, J. and Takamiya, T. (eds.) The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya. D.S. Brewer: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 371-380. ISBN 9781843840206
Smith, J.J. (2004) Phonological space and the actuation of the 'Great Vowel Shift' in Scotland and Northern England. In: Dossena, M. and Lass, R. (eds.) Methods and Data in English Historical Dialectology. Series: Linguistic insights (16). Peter Lang: Bern, Switzerland, pp. 309-328. ISBN 9783039103621
Smith, J.J. (2004) Writing essays and dissertations. In: Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus. HarperCollins: London, UK, Sup:2-Sup:13. ISBN 9780007181391
2003
Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (2003) The English ordinance and custom in the cartulary of the Hospital of St Laurence, Canterbury. Anglia Zeitschrift fur Englische Philologie, 120(4), pp. 488-507. (doi: 10.1515/ANGL.2002.488)
Smith, J.J. (2003) Chaucer and the invention of English. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 24, pp. 335-346.
Smith, J.J. (2003) The language of older Scots poetry. In: Corbett, J.B., McClure, J.D. and Stuart-Smith, J. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 197-209. ISBN 9780748615964
Smith, J.J. (2003) The quality of the Middle and Early Modern English short vowels. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 47, pp. 45-58.
2002
Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (2002) An introduction to Middle English. Series: Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 074861480X
Smith, J.J. (2002) The origins of Old English breaking. In: Tajima, M., Iyeiri, Y. and Connolly, M. (eds.) "And Gladly Wolde he Lerne and Gladly Teche": Essays on Medieval English Presented to Professor Matsui Tajima on his Sixtieth Birthday. Kaibunsha: Tokyo, Japan, pp. 39-50. ISBN 9784875715771
Smith, J.J. (2002) Reviewed work: From Wulfstan to Richard Rolle: Papers Exploring the Continuity of English Prose by Tadao Kubouchi. Modern Language Review, 97(4), pp. 929-930. [Book Review]
Smith, J.J. (2002) The Scots-English linguistic continuum in eighteenth-century verse. In: Görlach, M., Lenz, K. and Möhlig, R. (eds.) Of Dyuersitie & Chaunge of Langage: Essays Presented to Manfred Görlach on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Series: Anglistische Forschungen (308). Universitätsverlag C. Winter: Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 339-352. ISBN 9783825313227
Smith, J.J., Black, M. and Horobin, S. (2002) Towards a new history of Middle English spelling. In: Lucas, P.J. and Lucas, A.M. (eds.) Middle English from Tongue to Text: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Middle English: Language and Text, Held at Dublin, Ireland, 1-4 July 1999. Series: Studies in English medieval language and literature (4). Peter Lang: Frankfurt, Germany, pp. 9-20. ISBN 9780820454597
2001
Smith, J.J. (2001) Chambers School Grammar. Chambers: London, UK. ISBN 9780550140111
Smith, J.J. (2001) The pragmatics of writing in the history of English. In: De La Cruz Cabanillas, I. (ed.) La Lingüística Aplicada a Finales del Siglo XX: Ensayos y Propuestas. Universidad de Alcalá: Alcalá de Henares, Spain, pp. 479-488. ISBN 9788481384284
Smith, J.J. (2001) Pronominal systems in the Auchinleck Manuscript. In: Roberts, J.A., Kay, C.J. and Sylvester, L. (eds.) Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts. Series: Costerus (new series) (133). Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 225-235. ISBN 9789042010017
2000
Waldron, R., Powell, S. and Smith, J.J. (Eds.) (2000) New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R.A. Waldron. D.S. Brewer. ISBN 9780859915908
Smith, J.J. (2000) The letters s and z in South-Eastern Middle English. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin of the Modern Language Society, 100, pp. 403-413.
Smith, J.J. (2000) Scots. In: Price, G. (ed.) Languages in Britain and Ireland. Blackwell, pp. 159-170. ISBN 9780631215806
Smith, J.J. (2000) Semantics and metrical form in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In: Powell, S. and Smith, J.J. (eds.) New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R.A. Waldron. D.S. Brewer, pp. 87-103. ISBN 9780859915908
Smith, J.J. (2000) Standard language in Early Middle English. In: Taavitsainen, I. (ed.) Placing Middle English in Context. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 125-139. ISBN 9783110167801
1999
Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (1999) A database of Middle English spelling. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 14(3), pp. 359-374. (doi: 10.1093/llc/14.3.359)
Smith, J.J. (1999) Grimm's Law. In: Lapidge, M. (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell: Oxford, 222, 426, 459-460. ISBN 9780631155652
Smith, J.J. (1999) Sound Changes. In: Lapidge, M. (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, p. 426. ISBN 9780631155652
Smith, J.J. (1999) Verner's Law. In: Lapidge, M. (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, pp. 459-460. ISBN 9780631155652
1997
Smith, J.J. (1997) Dialect and standardisation in the Waseda manuscript of Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. In: Beadle, R., Oguro, S. and Sargent, M. (eds.) Nicholas Love. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 129-141.
Smith, J.J. (1997) Handmade tales: the implications of linguistic variation in two early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In: Fisiak, J. (ed.) Studies in Middle English Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 551-560. ISBN 9783110152425
1996
Smith, J.J. (1996) Ear-rhyme, eye-rhyme and traditional rhyme: English and Scots in Robert Burns's Brigs of Ayr. Glasgow Review, 4, pp. 74-85.
Smith, J.J. (1996) An Historical Study of English: Function, Form, and Change. Routledge. ISBN 9780415132725
Smith, J.J. (1996) Language and style in Malory. In: Edwards, S.G. and Archibald, E. (eds.) A Companion to Malory. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 97-113.
Smith, J.J. (1996) A note on constrained linguistic variation in a North-West-Midlands Middle-English Scribe. Neophilologus, 80(3), pp. 461-464. (doi: 10.1007/BF00312425)
1995
Smith, J.J. (1995) The language of the Ellesmere manuscript. In: Stevens, M. and Woodward, D. (eds.) The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation. Huntington Library, pp. 69-85.
1994
Smith, J.J. (1994) Chaucer's Language. In: Minnis, A. (ed.) The New Oxford Companion to Chaucer. Oxford University Press.
Smith, J.J. (1994) The Great Vowel Shift in the North of England, and some spellings in manuscripts of Chaucer's Reeve's Tale. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin of the Modern Language Society, 95, pp. 433-437.
Smith, J.J. (1994) Norse in Scotland. Scottish Language, 13, pp. 18-33.
Smith, J.J. (1994) A philologist's view. In: Laing, M. and Williamson, K. (eds.) Speaking in Our Own Tongues: Papers from the Edinburgh Colloquium on Historical Dialectology. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 99-105.
1993
Smith, J.J. (1993) Dialectal variation in Middle English and the actuation of the Great Vowel Shift. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin of the Modern Language Society, 94, pp. 259-277.
1992
Smith, J.J. (1992) A linguistic atlas of Early Middle English. In: Rissanen, M. (ed.) History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110132168
Smith, J.J. (1992) The use of English: language contact, dialect variation and written standardisation in the Middle English period. In: Machan, T.W. and Scott, C.T. (eds.) English in its Social Contexts: Essays in Historical Sociolinguistics. Oxford University Press, pp. 47-68. ISBN 9780195064995
1991
Smith, J.J. (1991) Tradition and innovation in South-West Midland Middle English. In: Riddy, F. (ed.) Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts : essays celebrating the publication of a linguistic atlas of late mediaeval English. D.S. Brewer, pp. 53-65. ISBN 9780859913119
1990
Kay, C.J. and Smith, J.J. (1990) Is there a Teacher in this Class? English Language and the STELLA project at Glasgow University. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 5(1), pp. 77-80. (doi: 10.1093/llc/5.1.77)
Smith, J.J. (1990) Medieval English Studies in Glasgow. In: Oizumi, A. and Takamiya, T. (eds.) Medieval English Studies, Past and Present. Eichosa: Tokyo, pp. 97-104. ISBN 9784268000149
1989
Smith, J.J. (1989) Alfred and Ælfric: wisdom and poetry in Anglo-Saxon education. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 16, pp. 9-20.
Smith, J.J. (1989) The language of the manuscripts. In: Cigman, G. (ed.) Lollard Sermons. Early English Text Society. ISBN 9780197222966
1988
Samuels, M.L. and Smith, J.J. (1988) The English of Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays. Aberdeen University Press. ISBN 9780080364032
1986
Smith, J.J. (1986) Some spellings in Caxton's Malory. Poetica, 24, pp. 58-63.
1983
Smith, J.J. (1983) Linguistic features of some fifteenth-century Middle English manuscripts. In: Pearsall, D.A. (ed.) Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth-century England : The Literary Implications of Manuscript Study : Essays from the 1981 Conference at the University of York. D.S. Brewer. ISBN 9780859911481
1981
Smith, J.J. and Samuels, M.L. (1981) The language of Gower. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin of the Modern Language Society, 82, pp. 295-304.
Articles
Smith, J. (2024) On “standard” written English in the later Middle Ages. Speculum, 99(3), pp. 762-779. (doi: 10.1086/730766)
Smith, J. (2023) The Arabic element in Scots lexis. Anglica, 32(4), pp. 43-59. (doi: 10.7311/Anglica/32.4)
Smith, J. J. (2023) Contextualising Middle English liturgical commentaries. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 87, pp. 69-86. (doi: 10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.87.04)
Smith, J. J. (2021) The manuscripts of the Middle English Lay Folks’ Mass Book in context. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 56(s1), pp. 361-385. (doi: 10.2478/stap-2021-0002)
Smith, J. J. (2021) Lexical choices in Early Modern English devotional prose. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 22(2), pp. 264-282. (doi: 10.1075/jhp.00056.smi)
Smith, J. (2020) Methodising Scots: the cases of Allan Ramsay and Thomas Ruddiman. Studies in Scottish Literature, 46(2), pp. 127-147.
Smith, J. J. (2020) Thomas Becket: Damnatio Memoriae and the marking of books. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 20(3-4), pp. 274-294. (doi: 10.1080/1474225X.2020.1863690)
Smith, J. (2020) On scriptae: correlating spelling and script in late Middle English. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 80, pp. 13-27. (doi: 10.25145/j.recaesin.2020.80.0)
Jasper, D. and Smith, J. (2019) 'The Lay Folks' Mass Book' and Thomas Frederick Simmons: medievalism and the Tractarians. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 70(4), pp. 785-804. (doi: 10.1017/S002204691900054X)
Smith, J. J. (2017) From secreit script to public print: punctuation, news management and the condemnation of the Earl of Bothwell. Huntington Library Quarterly, 80(2), pp. 223-238.
Smith, J. J. (2017) The afterlives of Nicholas Love. Studia Neophilologica, 89(Sup1), pp. 59-74. (doi: 10.1080/00393274.2017.1354718)
Smith, J. (2016) Scots and English across the Union: linguistic connexions and contrasts. Scottish Literary Review, 8(1), pp. 17-32.
Smith, J.J. (2012) Chaucer's use of the demonstrative. English Studies, 93(5), pp. 593-603. (doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2012.698537)
Smith, J.J. (2007) Copia Verborum: the linguistic choices of Robert Burns. Review in English Studies, 58(233), pp. 73-88. (doi: 10.1093/res/hgm002)
Smith, J.J. (2005) Language, class and region in late medieval England. Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature, 20, pp. 59-73.
Smith, J.J. (2005) Patterns of sound in Middle English and Older Scots verse. Poetica, 62, pp. 69-88.
Smith, J.J. (2004) Ideology and spelling in sixteenth-century England. Il Confronto Letterario, 40(Supple), pp. 11-24.
Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (2003) The English ordinance and custom in the cartulary of the Hospital of St Laurence, Canterbury. Anglia Zeitschrift fur Englische Philologie, 120(4), pp. 488-507. (doi: 10.1515/ANGL.2002.488)
Smith, J.J. (2003) Chaucer and the invention of English. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 24, pp. 335-346.
Smith, J.J. (2003) The quality of the Middle and Early Modern English short vowels. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 47, pp. 45-58.
Smith, J.J. (2000) The letters s and z in South-Eastern Middle English. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin of the Modern Language Society, 100, pp. 403-413.
Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (1999) A database of Middle English spelling. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 14(3), pp. 359-374. (doi: 10.1093/llc/14.3.359)
Smith, J.J. (1996) Ear-rhyme, eye-rhyme and traditional rhyme: English and Scots in Robert Burns's Brigs of Ayr. Glasgow Review, 4, pp. 74-85.
Smith, J.J. (1996) A note on constrained linguistic variation in a North-West-Midlands Middle-English Scribe. Neophilologus, 80(3), pp. 461-464. (doi: 10.1007/BF00312425)
Smith, J.J. (1994) The Great Vowel Shift in the North of England, and some spellings in manuscripts of Chaucer's Reeve's Tale. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin of the Modern Language Society, 95, pp. 433-437.
Smith, J.J. (1994) Norse in Scotland. Scottish Language, 13, pp. 18-33.
Smith, J.J. (1993) Dialectal variation in Middle English and the actuation of the Great Vowel Shift. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin of the Modern Language Society, 94, pp. 259-277.
Kay, C.J. and Smith, J.J. (1990) Is there a Teacher in this Class? English Language and the STELLA project at Glasgow University. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 5(1), pp. 77-80. (doi: 10.1093/llc/5.1.77)
Smith, J.J. (1989) Alfred and Ælfric: wisdom and poetry in Anglo-Saxon education. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 16, pp. 9-20.
Smith, J.J. (1986) Some spellings in Caxton's Malory. Poetica, 24, pp. 58-63.
Smith, J.J. and Samuels, M.L. (1981) The language of Gower. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin of the Modern Language Society, 82, pp. 295-304.
Books
Jasper, D. and Smith, J. (2023) Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England: Thomas Frederick Simmons and the Lay Folks' Mass Book. Series: Medievalism, 26. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781783277483
Smith, J. (2022) Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle, and Early Modern English (third edition). Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032058481 (doi: 10.4324/9781003199472)
Smith, J. J. (2020) Transforming Early English: the Reinvention of Early English and Older Scots. Series: Studies in English language. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781108420389
Smith, J.J. (2012) Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader. Series: Scottish Text Society. Fifth series, 9. The Scottish Text Society/Boydell Press: Edinburgh/Woodbridge. ISBN 9781897976333
Smith, J.J. (2009) Old English: a linguistic introduction. Series: Cambridge introductions to the English language. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521866774
Smith, J.J. (2007) Sound change and the history of English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199291953
Smith, J.J. (2005) Essentials of Early English. Routledge. ISBN 9780415342582
Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (2002) An introduction to Middle English. Series: Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 074861480X
Smith, J.J. (2001) Chambers School Grammar. Chambers: London, UK. ISBN 9780550140111
Smith, J.J. (1996) An Historical Study of English: Function, Form, and Change. Routledge. ISBN 9780415132725
Samuels, M.L. and Smith, J.J. (1988) The English of Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays. Aberdeen University Press. ISBN 9780080364032
Book Sections
Smith, J. J. (2024) The pragmatics of punctuation in the letters of Robert Burns. In: Carruthers, G. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 66-80. ISBN 9780198846246 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198846246.013.6)
Smith, J. (2024) The early book in Scotland. In: Carruthers, G. (ed.) A Companion to Scottish Literature. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (109). Wiley Blackwell: Chichester, pp. 167-179. ISBN 9781119651444 (doi: 10.1002/9781119651550.ch14)
Smith, J. (2022) On the power of writing. In: Nichols, B. and Taylor, N. (eds.) The End of the Church? Conversations With the Work of David Jasper. Sacristy Press: Durham, pp. 208-226. ISBN 9781789592528
Smith, J. J. (2020) The pragmatics of punctuation in Middle English documentary texts. In: Stenroos, M. and Thengs, K. V. (eds.) Records of Real People: Linguistic Variation in Middle English Local documents. Series: Advances in historical sociolinguistics (11). John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam, pp. 205-218. ISBN 9789027207951 (doi: 10.1075/ahs.11.09smi)
Smith, J. J. (2020) Recuperating Older Scots in the early 18th century. In: Peikola, M. and Bös, B. (eds.) The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical Approaches to Paratext and Metadiscourse in English. Series: Pragmatics and beyond new series (317). John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, pp. 267-287. ISBN 9789027207883 (doi: 10.1075/pbns.317.11smi)
Smith, J. J. (2020) Godly vocabulary in Early Modern English religious debate. In: Jonsson, E. and Larsson, T. (eds.) Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-Related and Spoken Texts, in Honor of Merja Kyto. Series: Studies in corpus linguistics (97). John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, pp. 96-112. ISBN 9789027207654 (doi: 10.1075/scl.97.07smi)
Smith, J. J. (2020) Charles d'Orleans and his finding of English. In: Perry, R.D. and Arn, M.-J. (eds.) Charles d'Orléans' English Aesthetic: the Form, Poetics, and Style of Fortunes Stabilnes. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 189-220. ISBN 9781843845676
Smith, J. J. (2019) Chaucer and London English. In: Johnson, I. (ed.) Geoffrey Chaucer in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 35-42. ISBN 9781107035645 (doi: 10.1017/9781139565141)
Smith, J. J. (2019) Chaucer's linguistic invention. In: Johnson, I. (ed.) Geoffrey Chaucer in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 27-34. ISBN 9781107035645 (doi: 10.1017/9781139565141)
Smith, J. (2018) The inventions of Sir Thomas Urquhart. In: Petrina, A. and Johnson, I. (eds.) The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing. Medieval Institute Publications. ISBN 9781580442817 (hbk.) 9781580447824 (ebk.)
Stenroos, M. and Smith, J. (2016) Changing functions: English spelling before 1600. In: Cook, V. and Ryan, D. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System. Series: Routledge handbooks in linguistics. Routledge: London, pp. 125-142. ISBN 9780415715973
Smith, J. (2016) The evolution of Old and Middle English texts: linguistic form and practices of literacy. In: Machan, T. W. (ed.) Imagining Medieval English: Language Structures and Theories, 500–1500. Series: Cambridge studies in medieval literature (95). Cambridge University Press, pp. 34-53. ISBN 9781107058590
Smith, J. (2015) The historical evolution of English pronunciation. In: Reed, M. and Levis, J. (eds.) The Handbook of English Pronunciation. Series: Blackwell handbooks in linguistics. Wiley Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781118314470 (doi: 10.1002/9781118346952.ch1)
Smith, J. (2013) Punctuating Mirk’s Festial: a Scottish text and its implications. In: Driver, M. and O'Mara, V. (eds.) Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England. Series: Sermo (11). Brepols: Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 161-192. ISBN 9782503541853
Smith, J. (2013) Punctuation in the letters of Archibald Campbell, Lord Ilay (1682-1761). In: Anderson, W. (ed.) Language in Scotland: Corpus-Based Studies. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 27-44. ISBN 9789042037182
Smith, J. (2013) Textual afterlives: Barbour’s Bruce and Hary’s Wallace. In: Kirk, J. and Macleod, I. (eds.) Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language. Rodopi: Amsterdam, pp. 37-69. ISBN 9789042037397
Smith, J.J. (2013) Mapping the language of the Vernon manuscript. In: Scase, W. (ed.) The Making of the Vernon Manuscript. Series: Texts and transitions. Brepols: Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 49-70. ISBN 9782503530468
Fitzmaurice, S. and Smith, J. (2012) Evidence for the history of English. In: Nevalainen, T. and Closs Traugott, E. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford University Press: Oxford/New York. ISBN 9780199922765
Smith, J. (2012) The Historiography of the English Language. In: Bergs, A. and Brinton, L. (eds.) English Historical Linguistics : an International Handbook. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110202205
Smith, J. (2012) Middle English. In: Bergs, A. and Brinton, L. (eds.) English Historical Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 32-48. ISBN 9783110202205
Smith, J. (2012) Middle English Syntax. In: Bergs, A. and Brinton, L. (eds.) English Historical Linguistics : an International Handbook. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110202205
Smith, J.J. (2012) Language of the manuscripts. In: The Middle English Glossed Prose Psalter. Series: Middle English texts (45-46). Universitaetsverlag Winter: Heidelberg, Germany, xxxiv-xxxix. ISBN 9783825361280
Smith, J.J. and Kay, C. (2011) The pragmatics of punctuation in Older Scots. In: Pahta, P. and Jucker, A. (eds.) Communicating Early English Manuscripts. Series: Studies in English language. Cambridge University Press, pp. 212-225. ISBN 9780521193290
Smith, J.J. (2010) Scots and English in the letters of John Knox. In: McGinley, K. and Royan, N. (eds.) The Apparelling of Truth: Literature and Literary Culture in the Reign of James VI : a Festschrift for Roderick J. Lyall. Cambridge Scholars. ISBN 9781443818735
Smith, J.J. (2009) 'The metre which does not measure': the function of alliteration in Middle English alliterative poetry. In: Putter, A. and Jefferson, J.A. (eds.) Approaches to the Metres of Alliterative Verse. Series: Leeds Texts and Monographs: New Series (17). Leeds Studies in English: Leeds, UK, pp. 11-23. ISBN 9780853162766
Smith, J.J. (2009) Middle English: language. In: Corrie, M. (ed.) A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature. Series: Blackwell Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, USA, pp. 145-165. ISBN 9781405120043
Smith, J.J. (2009) The spellings e, ea and a in two Wooing Group texts (MSS London, Cotton Nero A.xiv and London, Lambeth Palace 487). In: Chewning, S.M. (ed.) The Milieu and the Context of the Wooing Group. University of Wales Press, pp. 84-95. ISBN 9780708320334
Smith, J. (2008) Varieties of Middle English. In: Momma, H. and Matto, M. (eds.) A Companion to the History of the English Language. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (54). Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK, pp. 198-206. ISBN 9781405129923
Smith, J.J. (2008) Issues of linguistic categorisation in the evolution of written Middle English. In: Caie, G.D. and Renevey, D. (eds.) Medieval Texts in Context. Series: Context and genre in English literature. Routledge: London, UK, pp. 211-224. ISBN 9780415360258
Smith, J.J. (2008) Varieties of Middle English. In: Momma, H. and Matto, M. (eds.) A Companion to the History of the English Language. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (54). Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK, pp. 198-206. ISBN 9781405129923
Smith, J.J. and McLeod, W. (2007) Resistance to monolinguality: the languages of Scotland since 1918. In: Brown, I. (ed.) The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 21-30. ISBN 9780748624829
Smith, J.J. (2006) From middle to early modern English. In: Oxford History of English. Oxford University Press, pp. 120-146. ISBN 9780199249312
Smith, J.J. (2006) Notes on the medical vocabulary of John Keats. In: Kay, C., Caie, G.D., Hough, C. and Wotherspoon, I. (eds.) The Power of Words: Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics: In Honour of Christian J. Kay. Series: Costerus: new series (163). Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 159-169. ISBN 9789042021211
Smith, J.J. (2006) Phonaesthesia, ablaut and the history of the English demonstratives. In: Ritt, N. (ed.) Medieval English and its Heritage: Structure, Meaning and Mechanisms of Change. Series: Studies in English medieval language and literature (16). Peter Lang: Frankfurt, Germany, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9783631550069
Smith, J.J. (2004) Classifying the vowels of Middle English. In: Kay, C.J. and Smith, J.J. (eds.) Categorization in the History of English. Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 221-236. ISBN 9781588116192
Smith, J.J. (2004) Introduction. In: Kay, C.J., Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (eds.) New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics 1: Syntax and Morphology. Benjamins: Amsterdam, ix-x. ISBN 9789027247636
Smith, J.J. (2004) John Gower and London English. In: Echard, S. (ed.) A Companion to Gower. D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, UK, pp. 61-72. ISBN 9781843840008
Smith, J.J. (2004) Marginal glosses in Sir John Cheke's translation of the Bible. In: Matsuda, T., Linenthal, R.A., Scahill, J. and Takamiya, T. (eds.) The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya. D.S. Brewer: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 371-380. ISBN 9781843840206
Smith, J.J. (2004) Phonological space and the actuation of the 'Great Vowel Shift' in Scotland and Northern England. In: Dossena, M. and Lass, R. (eds.) Methods and Data in English Historical Dialectology. Series: Linguistic insights (16). Peter Lang: Bern, Switzerland, pp. 309-328. ISBN 9783039103621
Smith, J.J. (2004) Writing essays and dissertations. In: Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus. HarperCollins: London, UK, Sup:2-Sup:13. ISBN 9780007181391
Smith, J.J. (2003) The language of older Scots poetry. In: Corbett, J.B., McClure, J.D. and Stuart-Smith, J. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 197-209. ISBN 9780748615964
Smith, J.J. (2002) The origins of Old English breaking. In: Tajima, M., Iyeiri, Y. and Connolly, M. (eds.) "And Gladly Wolde he Lerne and Gladly Teche": Essays on Medieval English Presented to Professor Matsui Tajima on his Sixtieth Birthday. Kaibunsha: Tokyo, Japan, pp. 39-50. ISBN 9784875715771
Smith, J.J. (2002) The Scots-English linguistic continuum in eighteenth-century verse. In: Görlach, M., Lenz, K. and Möhlig, R. (eds.) Of Dyuersitie & Chaunge of Langage: Essays Presented to Manfred Görlach on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Series: Anglistische Forschungen (308). Universitätsverlag C. Winter: Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 339-352. ISBN 9783825313227
Smith, J.J., Black, M. and Horobin, S. (2002) Towards a new history of Middle English spelling. In: Lucas, P.J. and Lucas, A.M. (eds.) Middle English from Tongue to Text: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Middle English: Language and Text, Held at Dublin, Ireland, 1-4 July 1999. Series: Studies in English medieval language and literature (4). Peter Lang: Frankfurt, Germany, pp. 9-20. ISBN 9780820454597
Smith, J.J. (2001) The pragmatics of writing in the history of English. In: De La Cruz Cabanillas, I. (ed.) La Lingüística Aplicada a Finales del Siglo XX: Ensayos y Propuestas. Universidad de Alcalá: Alcalá de Henares, Spain, pp. 479-488. ISBN 9788481384284
Smith, J.J. (2001) Pronominal systems in the Auchinleck Manuscript. In: Roberts, J.A., Kay, C.J. and Sylvester, L. (eds.) Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts. Series: Costerus (new series) (133). Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 225-235. ISBN 9789042010017
Smith, J.J. (2000) Scots. In: Price, G. (ed.) Languages in Britain and Ireland. Blackwell, pp. 159-170. ISBN 9780631215806
Smith, J.J. (2000) Semantics and metrical form in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In: Powell, S. and Smith, J.J. (eds.) New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R.A. Waldron. D.S. Brewer, pp. 87-103. ISBN 9780859915908
Smith, J.J. (2000) Standard language in Early Middle English. In: Taavitsainen, I. (ed.) Placing Middle English in Context. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 125-139. ISBN 9783110167801
Smith, J.J. (1999) Grimm's Law. In: Lapidge, M. (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell: Oxford, 222, 426, 459-460. ISBN 9780631155652
Smith, J.J. (1999) Sound Changes. In: Lapidge, M. (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, p. 426. ISBN 9780631155652
Smith, J.J. (1999) Verner's Law. In: Lapidge, M. (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, pp. 459-460. ISBN 9780631155652
Smith, J.J. (1997) Dialect and standardisation in the Waseda manuscript of Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. In: Beadle, R., Oguro, S. and Sargent, M. (eds.) Nicholas Love. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 129-141.
Smith, J.J. (1997) Handmade tales: the implications of linguistic variation in two early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In: Fisiak, J. (ed.) Studies in Middle English Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 551-560. ISBN 9783110152425
Smith, J.J. (1996) Language and style in Malory. In: Edwards, S.G. and Archibald, E. (eds.) A Companion to Malory. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 97-113.
Smith, J.J. (1995) The language of the Ellesmere manuscript. In: Stevens, M. and Woodward, D. (eds.) The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation. Huntington Library, pp. 69-85.
Smith, J.J. (1994) Chaucer's Language. In: Minnis, A. (ed.) The New Oxford Companion to Chaucer. Oxford University Press.
Smith, J.J. (1994) A philologist's view. In: Laing, M. and Williamson, K. (eds.) Speaking in Our Own Tongues: Papers from the Edinburgh Colloquium on Historical Dialectology. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 99-105.
Smith, J.J. (1992) A linguistic atlas of Early Middle English. In: Rissanen, M. (ed.) History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110132168
Smith, J.J. (1992) The use of English: language contact, dialect variation and written standardisation in the Middle English period. In: Machan, T.W. and Scott, C.T. (eds.) English in its Social Contexts: Essays in Historical Sociolinguistics. Oxford University Press, pp. 47-68. ISBN 9780195064995
Smith, J.J. (1991) Tradition and innovation in South-West Midland Middle English. In: Riddy, F. (ed.) Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts : essays celebrating the publication of a linguistic atlas of late mediaeval English. D.S. Brewer, pp. 53-65. ISBN 9780859913119
Smith, J.J. (1990) Medieval English Studies in Glasgow. In: Oizumi, A. and Takamiya, T. (eds.) Medieval English Studies, Past and Present. Eichosa: Tokyo, pp. 97-104. ISBN 9784268000149
Smith, J.J. (1989) The language of the manuscripts. In: Cigman, G. (ed.) Lollard Sermons. Early English Text Society. ISBN 9780197222966
Smith, J.J. (1983) Linguistic features of some fifteenth-century Middle English manuscripts. In: Pearsall, D.A. (ed.) Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth-century England : The Literary Implications of Manuscript Study : Essays from the 1981 Conference at the University of York. D.S. Brewer. ISBN 9780859911481
Book Reviews
Smith, J. J. (2024) Pragmatics in the History of English by Laurel J. Brinton Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hardback), 2023. xiv + 256. ISBN: 9781009322928. Journal of English Linguistics, (doi: 10.1177/00754242241253618)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)
Smith, J.J. (2008) The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and America by Richard Sher. Scottish Affairs, pp. 142-145. [Book Review]
Smith, J.J. (2006) Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations, Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons (eds) (Mouton de Bruyter: Berlin and New York, 2004). English Language and Linguistics, 10, pp. 401-403. [Book Review]
Smith, J.J. (2002) Reviewed work: From Wulfstan to Richard Rolle: Papers Exploring the Continuity of English Prose by Tadao Kubouchi. Modern Language Review, 97(4), pp. 929-930. [Book Review]
Edited Books
Iyeiri, Y., Yadomi, H., Selfe, D. and Smith, J. (Eds.) (2022) Variational Studies on Pronominal Forms in the History of English. Series: Studies in the history of the English language. Kaitakusha: Tokyo. ISBN 9784758923835
Taavitsainen, I., Hiltunen, T., Smith, J. J. and Suhr, C. (Eds.) (2022) Genre in English Medical Writing 1500-1820: Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use. Series: Studies in English language. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781009100090
Taavitsainen, I., Kytö, M., Claridge, C. and Smith, J. (Eds.) (2015) Developments in English: expanding electronic evidence. Series: Studies in English language. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107038509
Kay, C.J. and Smith, J.J. (Eds.) (2004) Categorization in the History of English. Series: Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series 4: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Benjamins: Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9781588116192
Kay, C.J., Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (Eds.) (2004) New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics I: Syntax and Morphology. Benjamins: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789027247636
Kay, C.J., Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (Eds.) (2004) New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics II: Lexis and Transmission. Benjamins: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789027247650
Waldron, R., Powell, S. and Smith, J.J. (Eds.) (2000) New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R.A. Waldron. D.S. Brewer. ISBN 9780859915908
Research Reports or Papers
Corbett, J., Smith, J. , Anderson, W. , Bann, J., Beavan, D. and Anderson, J. (2007) CMSW (Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing). Other. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Conference Proceedings
Smith, J. (2014) Digital Humanities and the 'new' new philology. In: Linguistics Insights, Alcala de Henares, Spain, Sep 2013, pp. 19-40.
Supervision
- Campbell, Molly
Pronouncing Early Modern English and Scots: Reassessing the evidence for ‘non-standard’ speech in Early Modern Britain.