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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old ...
R.D. Fulk, Fulk, Robert D.
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Foot structure in Germanic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
A foot is an organising unit of prosodic structure built on moras and syllables. Prominence falls on the heads of feet, and feet can be right or left-headed (an iamb or a trochee, respectively). Feet can be constructed from the right or the left edge and

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Germanic diminutives: a case study of a gap in Norwegian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
It is well known that German and Dutch have productive diminutive morphology. What is much less discussed is the fact that several other Germanic languages do not have such productive morphology, notably the Scandinavian languages.
Alexiadou, Artemis   +3 more
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CASE STUDIES OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS EXPRESSED IN THE GERMANIC TERMS FOR ‘SPEECH’. THE HISTORICAL LINGUISTIC BACKGROUND OF A CONCEPT AS GROUND FOR STUDIES IN CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC [PDF]

open access: yesStudii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2012
This article refers to the studies of ‘contrastive rhetoric’ from a historical perspective examining ‘language contact’-situations of Germanic languages within the IndoEuropean group.
Fee-Alexandra Haase
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Dikeledi’s revenge: A reading of Bessie Head’s ‘The collector of treasures’

open access: yesLiterator, 1996
This essay focuses on the title story of Bessie Head's collection The collector of treasures and pays particular attention to the role of the phallus in the text.
M. Crous
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From Householder to War-Lord to Heavenly Hero: Naming God in the Early Continental Germanic Languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Using an interdisciplinary approach and building upon earlier work by Northcott, Green, Eggers, Schirokauer, and others, the present study presents a reappraisal of the development of the Germanic vocabulary adopted to designate the divine Lord (God or ...
Moynihan, Michael
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Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change.

open access: yes, 2023
Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS)Institut für Germanistik - SoziolinguistikInstitute of Germanic Languages and ...
Jeszenszky, Péter   +2 more
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(*)ABA in Germanic verbs

open access: yesGlossa, 2018
This paper discusses cases where non-adjacent cells in morphological paradigms are syncretic, commonly called ABA patterns (Bobaljik 2012 et seqq.). Data from verbs in Germanic languages are examined, as earlier work suggests that a *ABA constraint may ...
Samuel Andersson
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Russian Binary Meters

open access: yesStudia Metrica et Poetica, 2020
Russian Binary Meters.
Kiril Taranovsky, Lawrence E. Feinberg
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Rumors of Nature: An Ecotranslation of Ulrike Almut Sandig’s “so habe ich sagen gehört”

open access: yesHumanities, 2021
Only recently have scholars begun to discuss the implications of the Anthropocene for the translation of literature, introducing the new practice and study of ecotranslation. The Anthropocene—a term popularized by Paul Crutzen—describes the current epoch
Hannah Bradley
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