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Middle-Class African American English
African American English (AAE) is a major area of research in linguistics, but until now, work has primarily been focused on AAE as it is spoken amongst the working classes.
Tracey L. Weldon
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Contact-Induced Changes in the Argument Structure of Middle English Verbs on the Model of Old French
This paper investigates contact-induced changes in the argument structure of Middle English verbs on the model of Old French. 1 We study two issues: i) to what extent did the English system retain and integrate the argument structure of verbs copied ...
C. Trips, A. Stein
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Functional Transposition of ABOUT in the 9th–21st Centuries [PDF]
The paper exemplifies a unique attempt to trace the evolution of the preposition and the adverb ABOUT as initial and transposed categories. The study focuses on the development of both interwoven categories since 850 and up to the early 21st century ...
Yurii Kovbasko
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The relation between multilingual learning and cognition through (linguistic) giftedness has not been studied yet in third language acquisition, multilingualism or cognition studies.
Ferhat Dolas +2 more
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The Multilingual Origins of Standard English. Edited by Laura Wright
review of The Multilingual Origins of Standard English by Laura Wright, ed.
Gloria Mambelli
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“A Doll’s House Conquered Europe”: Ibsen, His English Parodists, and the Debate over World Drama
The London premieres of Henrik Ibsen’s plays in the late 1880s and 1890s sparked strong reactions both of admiration and disgust. This controversy, I suggest, was largely focused on national identity and artistic cosmopolitanism.
Mary Christian
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[Un]Licensed Riot: Prodigality, Hypocrisy, and Guild Discourse in Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale
Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale demonstrates the characterization of a riotous apprentice, the narrative depiction of conflict between that apprentice and his master, and that master’s issuing of a questionable “papir” of “acquitance” (4404 & 4411) to suggest ...
David Pecan
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Resumen: Este artículo presenta un estudio del léxico referente al ámbito científico de la medicina que se encuentra recogido en la obra System of Physic, depositada en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Glasgow (MS Hunter 509).
Laura Esteban-Segura
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The educational disparities that can be found in the English language learning outcomes of middle school students in Austria have gone relatively unexplored in international research.
Elizabeth J. Erling +2 more
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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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