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Lability and the rigidification of word order: evidence from Early Middle English
Linguistics, 2023 This article analyzes quantitatively the effect of five linguistic features on the position of the object in Early Middle English. Four of them have long been explored in the literature: object type, object length, clause type and type of verbal cluster (
García García Luisa
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Grammar Competition and Word Order in a Northern Early Middle English Text
Languages, 2021 The Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians manuscript of Cursor Mundi and the Northern Homilies, a northern Middle English text from the early 14th century, contains unprecedentedly high frequencies of matrix verb-third and embedded verb-second word ...
Robert Truswell
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The position of negation and adverbs in Early Middle English
Lingua, 2007 This paper investigates the placement and structural analysis of negation and adverbs in early English, focussing in particular on Early Middle English (EME). Although the clausal syntax of negation and adverbs in EME was complex and variable, we show that the variation was not unprincipled.
Richard Ingham
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Metrical Resolution in Early Middle English
, 2023 Abstract This chapter examines two Middle English poems of about the year 1200 for evidence of metrical resolution. A sampling of the long alliterative poem Brut by Laȝamon suggests that line-final words such as stude ‘place’, which have two light syllables, behave metrically like monosyllables (e.g.
Nelson Goering, Goering Nelson
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Crossing the Borders between Meter, Syntax and Information Structure. Some Methodological Notes
Lea, 2023 This paper discusses how combining research in meter, syntax and information structure can enhance our understanding of the syntax of a given historical text and help provide insights into the relation between metrical prominence and information ...
Chiara De Bastiani
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“Terrible Letters”: Bad Handwriting and its Implications, 1020–1220
SELIM, 2023 This article focuses on the role of one of the most fundamental of medieval figures—the scribe, as well as on the products of scribes in the eighth to thirteenth centuries.
Elaine Treharne
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On the syntax of object pronouns in Old English and Early Middle English
Glossa, 2020 The paper investigates the conditions that determine the distribution of object pronouns in the period before the latter become fixed to the post-verbal position.
Chiara De Bastiani, Roland Hinterhölzl
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What Did(n’t) Happen to English?: A Re-evaluation of Some Contact Explanations in Early English
SELIM, 2023 McWhorter (2002) argued that contact with Norse caused simplifications in English grammar that set English apart from other Germanic languages. This paper focuses on one of the losses McWhorter attributed to the linguistic impact of the Scandinavian ...
Cynthia L. Allen
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Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2023 The paper outlines the contribution of German to the word stock of English in the three periods of Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English, or, in other words, from the early Middle Ages up to 1700, and relates these words to major cultural
Ulrich Busse
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Middle English in Early Auden [PDF]
The Review of English Studies, 2019 W. H. Auden’s debts to Old English and Old Norse literature have long been celebrated, but his lifelong interest in Middle English has received far less critical attention. This article examines how Auden’s formative encounters with Middle English verse and prose influenced his poetry between 1922 and 1930.
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