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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

“In the far distance” : Memories of the Medieval and Ghosts in Modern Poetry (Jack Spicer, Cole Swensen)

open access: yesRelief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2014
This essay proposes a comparative reading of medieval texts and the modern poetry of Jack Spicer and Cole Swensen. It explores the places of destabilization in these literary works, to grasp the stakes of the medieval resurgence that is taking place ...
Nathalie Koble
doaj   +1 more source

Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

Leśmian’s avant-garde grandson

open access: yesPoznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2009
The sketch discusses the “relations and interdependencies of impossibilities” connecting the discursive poetry of Bieńkowski with the lyrical poetics of Leśmian.
Agata Stankowska
doaj   +1 more source

Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

INTRODUCTION: REMANENT ROMANTICISM IN MODERN POETRY

open access: yes, 2005
International audienceThis article is the introduction to issue n° 12 (2005) of the journal Cercles: revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone, an anthology of articles in English entitled Remanent Romanticism in Modern English Poetry.
Moulin, Joanny
core   +1 more source

The Wilds of Poetry: Adventures in Mind and Landscape by David Hinton [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Review of David Hinton’s The Wilds of Poetry: Adventure’s in Mind and ...
Weishaus, Joel
core   +1 more source

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