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The Derivative Aspect of the Formation of the Prefixal and Onomasiological Category of Negation

Linguaculture, 2020
The article addresses the formation of the prefixal and onomasiological category of Negation in Old English, Middle English, Early New English and New English.
Olga Migorian
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Split Infinitives in Early Middle English [PDF]

Language Dynamics and Change, 2016
The split infinitive is one of seven syntactic properties that English is said to share with Old Norse, and I will show that, on the basis of the area and date of its first occurrence, Norse origin is unlikely.
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Metrical Revisions in the Ormulum Manuscript

SELIM
The Ormulum is a long and complex early Middle English text extant in a single medieval manuscript. The majority of the text comprises verse homilies, making for a total of around twenty thousand regular lines.
Andrew Cooper
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Polysemy in specialized lexicon from Old English to Present-Day English

Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015
The main aim of this paper is to show the multiplicity of meanings given to the same word in specialized English lexicon from Old English to Present-Day English in order to provide the English language with linguistic economy and flexibility, thus ...
Elvira Pérez Iglesias
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Historical Continuity in the Morphological Marking of Subjectivity? Textual Perspectives on the Origin of English Adverbial "-ly" in Late Old and Early Middle English

Zeitschrift für Wortbildung
In spite of the fact that the Present-Day English “adverbial signature” – the suffix ‑ly – is peculiar to English among the Germanic languages and that its emergence seems to conflict with general tendencies of language change in English – the loss of ...
Ursula Lenker
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Early middle English manuscript as an object of linguistic analysis

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2008
The article is devoted to the early Middle English manuscript «Proverbs of Alfred». The linguistic analysis shows in what way the English language diachronic development occurred.
E V Bondarenko
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Multilingual glossing and translanguaging in John of Garland’s Dictionarius: The case of Bruges, Public Library, MS 536

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
Based on an edition of the multilingual glosses, this paper investigates a copy of John of Garland’s Dictionarius extant in Bruges, Public Library, MS 536.
Christine Wallis, Annina Seiler, Heather Pagan   +2 more
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Spiritual and Medical Dimensions of the Language of Memory in Middle English Texts

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
This article examines the multifaceted understanding of memory in Middle English texts, exploring its medical and spiritual dimensions. Drawing on a corpus of Middle English texts from diverse genres, the study highlights the transition from early Anglo ...
Natalia Cziganj
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Nu is þeo Leore For-Leten: Conventionality, Complexity and Substitution Sets in Historical English Spelling

SELIM
This paper considers some assumptions about historical English spelling, in particular the idea that historical orthographies, in the absence of standardisation, naturally tend to a close spelling-sound correspondence.
Merja Stenroos
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Subject Positions and Information-Structural Diversification in the History of English

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2011
The aim of this paper is to integrate Information Structure/IS-related insights of past work on the subject system of Old English with a particular formal account of word-order variation and change in earlier English that did not take IS considerations ...
Theresa Bibenauer, Ans van Kemenade
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