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From the inspiration of Abu Tammam: Language and Literature in the First Half of the Ninth Century AD [PDF]
آداب الرافدين, 1971 The memory of Abu Tammam aroused a curiosity for me, and I wondered about the state of language and literature in England during the period in which this Arab poet lived. Such a study complements other studies on Abu Tammam and his era.
Joel Aziz
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Urban Imagery in the Old English Exodus and its Hermeneutics
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2022 The present article offers a critical reading of the Old English Exodus, a poem that is an Old English versified adaptation of an episode from the biblical story of Exodus that narrates Israelites’ passage across the Red Sea and the destruction of ...
Olesiejko Jacek
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Crossing the Borders between Meter, Syntax and Information Structure. Some Methodological Notes
Lea, 2023 This paper discusses how combining research in meter, syntax and information structure can enhance our understanding of the syntax of a given historical text and help provide insights into the relation between metrical prominence and information ...
Chiara De Bastiani
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Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture [PDF]
, 2007 It is difficult to detect lexical change within Old English, since most of our texts derive from a relatively short period, but lexical change can afford valuable insights into cultural change.
Hall, Alaric
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An “Authorized Fiction”: Towards a Biography of Anonymous 756
Royal Studies Journal, 2021 This article offers a theoretical biography of Anonymous 756, the wife of King Eardwulf of Northumbria. Historians working on women in the pre-Conquest period have noted their relative absence in sources, and evidence for queens can be scant or spurious.
Stefany Wragg
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The Lemmas and Inflections of Old English L-Nouns
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2023 The aim of this work is to lemmatise the inflectional forms of the Old English nouns beginning with the letter L. This aim entails the classification of inflectional forms by declension type.
De Las Pueblas Yanguas Laura Martín +1 more
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English-learning infants’ perception of word stress patterns [PDF]
, 2011 Adult speakers of different free stress languages (e.g., English, Spanish) differ both in their sensitivity to lexical stress and in their processing of suprasegmental and vowel quality cues to stress.
Alejandrina Cristià +6 more
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Ælfric’s Expressions for Shame and Guilt: A Study in Intra-Writer Conceptual Variation
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2021 This research focuses on the analysis of onomasiological variation in Old English texts written by Ælfric; more specifically, I am interested in the study of the different motifs that shape the linguistic expressions of shame and guilt used by this Anglo-
Díaz-Vera Javier E.
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The audience for Old English texts: Ælfric, rhetoric and ‘the edification of the simple’ [PDF]
, 2014 There is a persistent view that Old English texts were mostly written to be read or heard by people with no knowledge of Latin, or little understanding of it, especially the laity.
Gittos, Helen
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SELIMBook review of Coker, Matthew D. 2023. Supernatural Speakers in Old English Verse. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. Pp. 154. ISBN 9781641894128.
James Paz
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