LANGUAGE
IN TIME.

A language-period range; none of the located records is promoted as the first token.

A dictionary-reported manuscript horizon, not an exact token date or object inspection.

The interval represents the Old High German textual period, not a date for one token or one paradigm shift.

A work-level dating range distinct from the dates of the surviving manuscript objects.

An evidence gap after the bounded record, not a dated death certificate for the verb.

A broad poetic-transmission horizon because no exact composition date or manuscript object was verified here.

The conventional period contains the source-reported records; no instantaneous semantic change is asserted.

The interval is the conventional Middle English language horizon, not a single sound-change date.

Gradual lexical convergence, not one event.

The lexical competition is gradual and not assigned to one year.

The transition and noun remodeling dispute are gradual rather than one dated event.

The upper bound encodes the lexicographic “before the 12th century” horizon without inventing a first year.

A language-history continuation rather than one geographic journey.

Manuscript ranges anchor the reviewed records without claiming first use.

The open interval normalizes the reported fourteenth-century horizon to its lower bound; it is not a coinage claim.

The open interval begins with the normalized source-reported century.

The interval preserves the source-reported century.

The interval conservatively combines the reviewed fourteenth-century verb and fifteenth-century noun first-use horizons instead of dating the full French transmission.

The interval conservatively combines the reviewed fourteenth-century verb and fifteenth-century noun first-use horizons; it does not date every French or English occurrence.

This stage dates the base, not the verb.

The long interval models spelling and semantic continuation, not one uniform standard or unchanged pronunciation.

The broad range locates the edited Chaucer text; no manuscript or exact composition year was directly verified.

The open interval begins with the normalized source-reported century.

The open interval begins with the normalized source-reported century.

The open interval begins with the normalized fifteenth-century report.

The interval preserves the source’s century-level precision.

The printed witness is source-reported; its object and production place were not directly inspected.

The open interval locates modern English continuation and does not merge the homonyms.

The modern-language anchor is conventional; the reviewed source does not license exact first dates for every surviving sense.

The modern interval is conventional and semantically nonuniform.