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Colour, seeing, and seeing colour in medieval literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This thesis re-approaches medieval literature in terms of its investment in visuality in general and chromatic perception in particular. The introduction raises the philosophical problem off-colour: its status as an object for science, role in perception,
Huxtable, M. J., Huxtable, M J
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Analyse diachronique et variationniste de la désinence du pluriel -en en anglais standard et non standard [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The use of desinence /-en/, in standard and non-standard English, has its origins in the weak declination of Old English. In Middle English, the use of this plural has extended to words that once belonged to other Old English declensions.
Gary German, German, Gary
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The Place Names in the Breton Lays. A Research on a Literary Mental Universe

open access: yes, 2015
The aim of this work is to analyse how the Breton lays, from the Anglo-Norman tothe Middle English and Old Norse translations, use place and inhabitant names.
Adeux, Malo, 1990-
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Negative inversion, negative concord and sentential negation in the history of English [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Un exemple de bilinguisme breton-anglais

open access: yes, 1986
Given that Breton-speaking children are nowadays unfortunately quite rare, bilingual children in Breton and English must be almost unique. It seemed prudent, therefore, to take detailed notes on the acquisition of these two languages by my daughter ...
Kenneth J. George
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The Exploitation of French-English Lexical Transfer in Early Middle English Poetry

open access: yes, 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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Stylo visualisations of Middle English documents

open access: yes, 2020
Automated approaches to identifying authorship of a text have become commonplace in the stylometric studies. The current article applies an unsupervised stylometric approach on Middle English documents using the script Stylo in R, in an attempt to ...
Martti Mäkinen, Mäkinen, Martti
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The Enquiry 2024

open access: yes
What is 'Magic Art'? In 1953, André Breton, founder of the surrealist movement, was invited by a prestigious French publisher to explore answers to this question. His resulting analysis is wide-ranging and evocative.
Errichiello, Mariano
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Middle Breton cazas lin and canastr lin ‘flax shives’

open access: yes, 2022
The paper presents a new etymology for a rare Middle Breton word known only from entries in the Cms. and the Ca., cazas (lin) ‘shives, the woody portion of flax’ translated by Latin napta ‘naphtha, mineral pitch, bitumen’. A borrowing from Northern Gallo-
Jörgensen, Anders,
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