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Liturgy and Learning: The Encyclopaedic Function of the Old English Martyrology
Religions, 2022 This article examines the broad, encyclopaedic ambit of the scholarly information contained in the ninth-century Old English Martyrology. Martyrologies generally serve as para-liturgical resources outlining the contours of the liturgical year and the ...
John Joseph Gallagher
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Un paradis sans corps ? Festins célestes et ivresses spirituelles dans l’Angleterre anglo-saxonne
Revue des Langues Romanes, 2019 In the religious literature of Anglo-Saxon England, allusions to the destiny and appearance of the blessed dead in the other world generally include, as expected in a Christian context of belief in the resurrection of the flesh, mentions of their bodies,
Alban Gautier
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The Landscape of Middle English Focusing on the Adverb Even
Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 The study is aimed at exploring adverb even as the information structural component, viz., a Focus marker in Middle English records based on the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
Olena Andrushenko
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Assessing the Productivity of Old English –læcan
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2012 The aim of this paper is to analyse the productivity of the Old English weak verbs suffixed with -læcan. The main sources for this research are the lexical database of Old English Nerthus and The Dictionary of Old English Corpus.
Gema Maíz Villalta
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the relationship between managerial power, overconfidence, and obfuscation in the Chairpersons' statements of Indian banks over the period 2009–2022. We hand collect Chairperson statements of public and private Indian banks and implement linguistic analysis techniques to identify the presence of obfuscation.
John Pereira +2 more
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Old English Prose (slides) [PDF]
, 2010 Topics include the first attempts at prose in the English language, 'short stories', historical texts, legal documents, as well as such writers as Alfred the Great, and Aelfric of Eynsham.
Stuart Lee
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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, 2022 This article first outlines the challenges involved in the editing of Old English anonymous and Wulfstanian homilies before introducing the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English (ECHOE) project.
Rudolf, Winfried;, Rudolf, Winfried
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Relative clauses in Old English prose: A stylistic choice
Filologia GermanicaOld English prose and poetry show a great variety of relativizing constructions which have traditionally been interpreted as a sign of an ongoing change in Old English syntax.
Letizia Vezzosi
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