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Prototypes and structures in eddic poetry [PDF]
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2017 Seiichi Suzuki, The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry: Common Germanic Inheritance and North Germanic Innovation (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Band 86). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014. XLV+1096 pp.
Kristján Árnason
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The explananda in North Germanic Tonogenesis
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo"The article discusses two explananda relating to tonogenesis in North Germanic: A) the origin of a tonal representation, B) the origin of a lexical distinction. Tradition has largely focused on B before A. I elucidate the assumptions of B > A hypothesis
Tomas Riad
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Schleswig – a region of longitudinal language contact
Globe, 2023 The topic of this article is the structural similarity of neighbouring language varieties belonging to two different branches of the Germanic languages.
Elin Fredsted
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Etymology and Comparative Phonology of North Germanic Personal Names in the Primary Chronicle [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2017 The paper presents comparative analysis of the names of North Germanic origin in the Primary Chronicle. In Section 1, the author analyses the spelling of the names of the ambassadors who participated in the conclusion of the Treaty of Prince Igor with ...
Sergey L. Nikolaev
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What to think of Dumezil's tripartite approach of Indo-European cosmologies? [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 The paper analyzes the tripartite approach of Indo-European cosmologies once proposed by Georges Dumezil (1898-1986). The first part describes what Dumezil proposed, and then the second part tries to assess the relevancy and limitations of the tripartite
Fournet, A.
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda [PDF]
, 2017 This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in
Reis, Jacob Robert
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Proto-Germanicaiin North and West Germanic [PDF]
Folia Linguistica, 2017 AbstractProto-Germanic (PGmc.)aiin stressed syllables shows varied outcomes in Germanic languages (ā, ē, ei), with many of these developments being conditioned by different phonological contexts. This article presents a reconstruction that unifies this variation by assuming that the monophthongisation spread over ‘Germania’ in two waves with different ...
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Flervalgstester i studier av metaforforståelse blant norskinnlærere
NOA, 2021 I denne artikkelen diskuterer vi ulike aspekter ved bruk av flervalgstest som metode i ordforrådsstudier med fokus på innlærere av norsk. Vi tar utgangspunkt i fire studier der denne metoden er brukt for å undersøke forståelse av norske metaforiske ...
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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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