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Review: A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages (2018), by R.D. Fulk
, 2021 Review of A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages by R. D.
Nelson Goering
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Not Even Newton's Word: Authority and Resistance in the Royal Society Corpus1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates the historical development of Isaac Newton's proposed distinction between mass and weight in the Principia Mathematica of 1687 and traces its fate in the scientific English of the Royal Society between 1700 and 1920.
Nina Haket
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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Old English lida and the sailors of the North Sea
Filologia GermanicaThe essay examines the words for ‘sailor’ in the Germanic languages, with particular regard to those going under the sobriquet of North Sea Germanic languages. The research begins with the lida of Maxims I and his safe return home.
Patrizia Lendinara
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Morphosyntactic features of progressive in the K’iche’an languages of the Mayan family
Open Linguistics, 2021 The article deals with the morphosyntactic features of the aspectual category of progressive in K’iche’an languages. The analysis is carried out using methods of intragenetic typology.
Sychev Roman V.
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Glossa, 2021 In the Romance languages, definite plural articles (e.g., le rane ‘the frogs’) are generally ambiguous between a generic and a specific interpretation, and speakers must reconstruct the intended interpretation through the linguistic or extra-linguistic ...
Anna Czypionka +3 more
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[R] in Germanic dialects – tradition or innovation? [PDF]
, 2009 The quality of [R] in Germanic dialects is one of the most discussed phonological topics in Historical Linguistics, ircling around one main question: Was it front or back? Scholars have proposed a back sound arisen through foreign influence as well as a
Bisiada, Mario
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Plurabildung im Schweizerdeutschen
, 2022 Institut für Germanistik - SoziolinguistikInstitute of Germanic Languages and ...
Jeszenszky, Péter +2 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New analytical data of the so‐called Hemmoor buckets, a group of brass vessels from the Roman period of the 2nd to 3rd century ad that are widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, show considerable similarities with the polymetallic Cévennes ore deposits in south‐eastern France in terms of their geochemical characteristics and lead ...
Tobias B. Skowronek +5 more
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Auxiliary selection and counterfactuality in the history of English and Germanic [PDF]
, 2006 The retreat of BE as perfect auxiliary in the history of English is examined. Corpus data are presented showing that the initial advance of HAVE was most closely connected to a restriction against BE in past counterfactuals. Other factors which have been
McFadden, Thomas +3 more
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