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Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2022
The research traces the development of functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL in English. The study covers 16 historical periods and is based on 1,243 examples extracted from the writings from 850 to 1710, which are analyzed without resorting to any ...
Kovbasko Yurii
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Lorden, Jennifer A. 2025. Literary Form in Early Medieval England. Cambridge Elements: England in the Early Medieval World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 69. ISBN 9781009328616.

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Review of Lorden, Jennifer A. 2025. Literary Form in Early Medieval England. Cambridge Elements: England in the Early Medieval World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 69. ISBN 9781009328616. 
Tom Revell
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Functional Transposition of After from a Diachronic Perspective

Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2022
The paper aims at tracing the origin of the preposition, adverb, and conjunction after, starting with the first examples registered before 850; distinguishing the primary and transposed categories; and reconstructing the process of functional ...
Yurii Kovbasko
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Stylistic Fronting in the Ormulum - Scandinavian Syntactic Phenomena in Early Middle English Texts

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
This paper deals with Scandinavian influence in Early Middle English texts and especially with one syntactic phenomenon, stylistic fronting. It is claimed here that the OV/VO word order change in Early Middle English was triggered by language contact ...
Carola Trips
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Hudson, Harriet. 2023. William Caxton’s "Paris and Vienne" and "Blanchardyn and Eglantine." Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications. Pp. x + 342. ISBN 9781580445573.

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Book Review of Hudson, Harriet. 2023. William Caxton’s “Paris and Vienne” and “Blanchardyn and Eglantine.” Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781580445566.
Kaila Yankelevich
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The Development of long in Early Modern English: Impersonal Verbs of Desire in Focus

Atlantis, 2021
The class of English verbs of Desire in Present-Day English comprises verbs such as long or thirst, several of which are attested in earlier English in impersonal constructions characterised by the lack of a grammatical subject.
Noelia Castro-Chao
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Particle verbs in early Middle English [PDF]

Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2003
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The interaction of syntactic change and information status effects in the change from OV to VO in English

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2011
It is well known that the position of constituents in a clause is influenced by information structure: the cross-linguistic generalization is that given information frequently comes early in the clause and new information is placed towards the end.
Ann Taylor, Susan Pintzuk
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Early Middle Pleistocene Fauna Of Fossil Rodents And LoessPaleosol Series Of The Pekla Key Section (Taman Peninsula, Russia)

Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2023
The history of the early Middle Pleistocene small mammal faunas of Eastern Europe is very complicated. The early Middle Pleistocene which spanned from the Brunhes-Matuyama transition (772.9 ka BP, within MIS 19) till the beginning of the Likhvin ...
Anastasia K. Markova, Svetlana A. Sycheva, Tatiana M. Gorbacheva   +2 more
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That / Zero Variation in Private Letters and Drama (1420-1710): A Corpus-Based Approach

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2000
This paper offers a description of the distribution of the complementisers that and zero in two informal registers of the language, namely, private letters and drama.
Cristina Suárez Gómez
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