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From Householder to War-Lord to Heavenly Hero: Naming God in the Early Continental Germanic Languages [PDF]
, 2017 Using an interdisciplinary approach and building upon earlier work by Northcott, Green, Eggers, Schirokauer, and others, the present study presents a reappraisal of the development of the Germanic vocabulary adopted to designate the divine Lord (God or ...
Moynihan, Michael
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Meta-morphomic patterns in North Germanic [PDF]
, 2023 The paper presents examples of meta-morphomes (a kind of morphomic patterns, involving syncretisms) in North Germanic. There has been some debate over the notion of such patterns, and the aim is therefore to present relatively clear cases. Five cases are
Enger, Hans-Olav, Hans-Olav Enger
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Germanic Women: Mundium and Property, 400-1000 [PDF]
, 2006 Many historians would like to discover a time of relative freedom, security and independence for women of the past. The Germanic era, from 400-1000 AD, was a time of stability, and security due to limitations the law placed upon the mundwald and the ...
Dunn, Kimberlee Harper
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Pseudo-coordinations in Faroese [PDF]
, 2012 In this article we describe the system of pseudo-coordinations in Faroese—coordinations in the verbal system in which the second conjunct appears in fact to be subordinated to the first—in the light of previous discussions of this phenomenon in ...
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North/West Germanic - The classification of English [PDF]
, 2017 The origins of Middle English has been highly debated, and after Emonds and Faarlund pub-lished their 2014 book English: The language of the Vikings? the debate has been restarted. Emonds and Faarlund claim that the West Germanic Old English died out and
Ulvestad, Helle
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The distribution of main and embedded structures: V2 and non-V2 orders in North Germanic [PDF]
, 2022 North Germanic has Verb Second (V2) word order in main but not embedded clauses. Although as a first approximation V2 is a phenomenon characteristic of root clauses, it has long been known that it occurs also in a restricted set of embedded clauses in ...
Westendorp, Maud
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Mapping Innovations in North Germanic with GIS [PDF]
, 2011 The mapping of innovations, as opposed to taxonomic features, has so far been little used in historical linguistics and dialect geography. Here I show with two examples from Peninsular North Germanic how linguistic theory may cast light on complex ...
Bye, Patrik
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NOA, 2021 I denne artikkelen argumenterer vi for bruken av semistrukturerte dybdeintervju som metode innenfor andrespråksforskningen. Vi bruker det kvalitative datamaterialet fra NINjA-prosjektet, et forskningsprosjekt ved Universitetet i Bergen som har som mål å ...
Else Berit Molde, Ilka Wunderlich
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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
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The Germanic weak preterit [PDF]
, 2010 The main difficulty with the Germanic weak preterit is that one cannot endeavor an explanation of its origin without taking into account almost every aspect of the historical phonology and morphology of the Germanic languages.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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