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Direct Speech in Beowulf and Other Old English Narrative Poems
English Studies, 2018Can Old English poetry be interpreted by modern readers as if it were no more alien than literary works composed a decade or a century ago? Can we assume that the ironies, unities, ambiguities, and fine subtleties valued in modern literary culture were ...
Leonard Neidorf
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Verb Learning in 14- and 18-Month-Old English-Learning Infants
Language Learning and Development, 2017The present study investigates English-learning infants’ early understanding of the link between the grammatical category verb and the conceptual category event, and their ability to recruit morphosyntactic information online to learn novel verb meanings.
Angela Xiaoxue He, J. Lidz
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Poems and Prose from the Old English
, 2017In this restructured and greatly expanded version of Burton Raffel's out-of-print classic, "Poems from the Old English", Raffel and co-editor Alexandra H. Olsen place the oldest English writings in a different perspective. Keeping the classroom teacher's
A. Olsen, B. Raffel
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Old English and the Theory of Phonology
, 2018Introduction 1. Short Diphthongs and Phonological Abstractness 2. Unseen i and Verb Morphology 3. Noun Morphology and Vowel Deletion 4.
B. Dresher
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2022
The West Germanic language brought to England from northwestern Germany and southern Denmark in the early 5th century ce is known as Old English (sometimes Anglo-Saxon). All dates for periods in English are somewhat arbitrary, since there was no abrupt shift from one language to another at any time.
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The West Germanic language brought to England from northwestern Germany and southern Denmark in the early 5th century ce is known as Old English (sometimes Anglo-Saxon). All dates for periods in English are somewhat arbitrary, since there was no abrupt shift from one language to another at any time.
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2007
This chapter examines study in Britain of Old English during the twentieth century. It explains that the field of Old English, the nature of the language and the corpus of literature, was essentially discovered and defined during the course of the nineteenth century, principally by scholars in Germany and Scandinavia.
Elizabeth Solopova, Stuart D. Lee
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This chapter examines study in Britain of Old English during the twentieth century. It explains that the field of Old English, the nature of the language and the corpus of literature, was essentially discovered and defined during the course of the nineteenth century, principally by scholars in Germany and Scandinavia.
Elizabeth Solopova, Stuart D. Lee
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1994
Old English is a companion to Old English studies and to historical studies of early English in general. It is also an introduction to Indo-European studies in the particular sense in which they underpin the history of English. Professor Roger Lass makes accessible in a linguistically up-to-date and readable form the Indo-European and Germanic ...
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Old English is a companion to Old English studies and to historical studies of early English in general. It is also an introduction to Indo-European studies in the particular sense in which they underpin the history of English. Professor Roger Lass makes accessible in a linguistically up-to-date and readable form the Indo-European and Germanic ...
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2009
Old English provides a clear linguistic introduction to English between the 5th century and the Norman invasion in 1066. Tailored to suit the needs of individual course modules, it assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, and presents the basic facts in a straightforward manner, making it the ideal beginners' text.
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Old English provides a clear linguistic introduction to English between the 5th century and the Norman invasion in 1066. Tailored to suit the needs of individual course modules, it assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, and presents the basic facts in a straightforward manner, making it the ideal beginners' text.
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