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Some developments in the semantics of the English progressive from old English to early modern English

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2004
The aim of this paper is to provide a descriptive account of the development of the semantics of English be + -ing from Old English (henceforth OE) to early Modern English (henceforth eModE). Questions such as whether it is possible to ascribe one single
Núñez Pertejo, Paloma
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Middle and Early Modern English Medical Recipes: Some Notes on Specialised Terminology [PDF]

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2018
One of the text-type features of a recipe is a certain degree of technical lexicon (cf. Görlach 2004). The aim of the present study is to compare the use and distribution of selected group of terms, here references to medical preparations, in Middle ...
Marta Sylwanowicz
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Evgenia Vladimirovna Gutnova as a Historiographer of the English Medieval Parliament: The Anglo-American Research Perspective

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
This article considers the Anglo-American historiography of the early English parliament based on the extensive contribution and heritage of Evgenia Vladimirovna Gutnova (1914–1992), an outstanding Soviet and Russian medievalist and historiographer. E.V.
Т. А. Sidorova
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The verse forms of the Old English “metrical” charms

Filologia Germanica
This essay takes into account the metre of the so-called metrical charms, arguing that these charms are characterised by a number of prosodic elements such as free alliterative verses, recurring repetition and some occasional rhyme.
Claudio Cataldi
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Appropriating Identity: William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, and Britain’s Myth of the Self-Made Man

Forum, 2010
Britain’s self-made man was defined by taste, money, influence, and most importantly, middle-class rank in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution.
Jayme Yahr
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Battling the devil: St Margaret in the Early Middle English Seinte Margarete

Filologia Germanica
St Margaret of Antioch was one of the most popular female saints in medieval England and a considerable number of both Latin and vernacular versions of her legend originated or circulated in England from the Old English Martyrology up to Caxton’s Golden
Claudia Di Sciacca
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Word formation in Early Middle English: Abstract nouns in the linguistic atlas of Early Middle English

, 2011
Since the early 1990s historical word formation, in particular derivation in Early Middle English, has increasingly attracted scholarly interest in the form of more general approaches to productivity and semantics. The present study focuses on the derivational patterns available to speakers and aims to identify factors which could influence the ...
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Sociolinguistics and Language History: The Helsinki Corpus of Early English Correspondence

Hermes, 2017
The paper introduces our new project on diachronic sociolinguistics, focusing on the problems of compiling a representative corpus for this purpose. We study long-term linguistic change in the Late Middle and Early Modern English periods (1420-1680) in a
Terttu Nevalainen, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg   +1 more
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An analysis of the punctuation of the Middle English "Letter of Ipocras" in London, Wellcome Library, MS 405

Journal of English Studies, 2019
Punctuation in early English has been traditionally considered to lack consistency and systematicity, as shown in the relevant literature. Yet, recent research has uncovered that individual texts followed particular punctuation practices regarding signs ...
Teresa Marqués-Aguado
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Women and Englishness: Anglo-Saxon Female Saints in the South English Legendary [PDF]

Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2013
A growing interest in ideas of group identity, especially with regards to the development of nationhood, has seen some very interesting works on early English identity.
Kerryn Olsen
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