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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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Interrelationships between Language and Literature from Old English to the Modern Period [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2012 Literature is the aesthetic manifestation of language. It is ‘as old as human language and as new as tomorrow’s sunrise.’ This paper explores the interrelationships between language and literature from 600 AD to the present day.
Esmail Zare Behtash
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, 2021 This study introduces a method in which linguistic items from different metadiscourse classes are remapped onto the rhetorical plane defined by the Aristotelian concepts ethos, pathos, and logos.
Mäkinen, Martti
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Social elements in the Norman French influence on English [PDF]
Hum, 2020 The aim of the paper is to show the influence of Norman French on English after the Norman Conquest. The research is limited to vocabulary analysis as well as social changes that were introduced by William the Conqueror and made it possible for the ...
Zoran Pervan
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Odisea, 2017 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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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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, 2022 The purpose of this brief is to examine middle and high school outcomes of long-term English learners in the Houston region, with a specific focus on how the timing of reclassification—when an EL student is reclassified as English proficient—was ...
Cashiola, L. +4 more
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Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2022 The research traces the development of functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL in English. The study covers 16 historical periods and is based on 1,243 examples extracted from the writings from 850 to 1710, which are analyzed without resorting to any ...
Kovbasko Yurii
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The Advent of the Printing Press and Britain’s Multilingual Textual Culture, 1471–1510
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2023 This article discusses the effects the new technology of printing had on the rich and multilingual textual culture of late medieval Britain. Before setting up his press in Westminster, William Caxton had books published in Latin, French and English.
Jordi Sánchez-Martí
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