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Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis comparatively examines a selection of twenty-first century sheikh romances and Middle English romances from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that imagine an erotic relationship occurring between east and west.
Burge, Amy
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Phonological Evidence for Resolution in Early Middle English [PDF]
, 2021 A review of evidence for foot structure from early Middle ...
Goering, Nelson, Nelson Goering
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The early Middle English reflexes of Germanic *ik ‘I’: unpacking the changes [PDF]
, 2013 The phonological shape of the PDE first-person nominative singular pronoun ‘I’ is assumed to have a simple history. The final consonant of WGmc *ik ‘palatalises’ (i.e.
Laing, Margaret, Lass, Roger
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Negative constructions in selected Middle English verse texts [PDF]
, 2012 The objective of the present study is to investigate the historical development of negative constructions in ME verse and to provide a descriptive account of it. The central issues analyzed in this thesis are: (1) the usage of the negative adverbs 'ne'
Iyeiri, Yoko
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 This study examines novels by two contemporary Khaleeji authors and their engagement with desert modernity. Their works challenge the romanticization of the desert in modern Arabic literature as a pre-modern space defined and dominated by men.
Abdulrahman Al Farhan, Raya Al raddadi
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The Multilingual Origins of Standard English. Edited by Laura Wright
Iperstoria, 2022 review of The Multilingual Origins of Standard English by Laura Wright, ed.
Gloria Mambelli
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The Exploitation of French-English Lexical Transfer in Early Middle English Poetry
, 2022 This paper considers the different ways in which Early Middle English poetry deploys recent French loanwords. It argues that the associations attaching to these words change depending on the contexts in which they are situated. Focusing on four examples,
Critten, Rory G.
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MIDDLE ENGLISH: ENGLISH OR FRENGLISH?
Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2015 The article focuses on a general description of Middle English considering the impact of the French language on its development during this period. Despite an extensive number of French borrowings in different layers of the English language, the language
L.M. Ikalyuk, U.T. Tatsakovych
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Negative inversion, negative concord and sentential negation in the history of English [PDF]
, 2012 It is claimed in van Kemenade (2000: 62) that clauses with initial negative constituents are a context in which subject–verb inversion occurs throughout the history of English.
Wallage, Phillip
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“A Doll’s House Conquered Europe”: Ibsen, His English Parodists, and the Debate over World Drama
Humanities, 2019 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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