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Old Norse as an
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2013 AbstractThe differences between languages with definite determiners and those without definite determiners have been the object of much research. Recently, Bošković has uncovered a number of one‐ and two‐way syntactic generalizations which serve to set these two typological groups apart.
Eric T. Lander, Liliane Haegeman
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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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Old Norse Influence on the Language ofBeowulf: A Reassessment
Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 2019 This article undertakes the first systematic examination of Frank’s (1979, 1981, 1987, 1990, 2007b, 2008) claim that Old Norse influence is discernible in the language ofBeowulf. It tests this hypothesis first by scrutinizing each of the alleged Nordicisms inBeowulf, then by discussing various theoretical considerations bearing on its plausibility.
Neidorf, Leonard, Pascual, Rafael J.
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Named-Entity Dataset for Medieval Latin, Middle High German and Old Norse
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2021 We present a dataset of named entities in three languages: Medieval Latin, Middle High German and Old Norse. The dataset, containing proper nouns of persons and places, was originally created to extract characters from three related medieval texts. Since
Clément Besnier, William Mattingly
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Livonian and Leivu: Shared Innovations and Problems; pp. 269-282 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2009 Livonian and Leivu South Estonian, both spoken in Latvia, have a common word stem in the name of their language and people, and several phonetic innovations.
Tiit-Rein Viitso
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae III: From Metric-Structural Type to Compositional System
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2015 This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised. This is the third part of a
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Namn og Nemne, 2021 The article deals with the name pairs Kven and Finn(e) and Kvenland - Finland in medieval texts, on one hand in Old Norse and the other hand in Old Swedish.
Eira Söderholm
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Jötnar as “supernatural beings”: a cognitive matrix of the Old Norse verbal representations
Філологічні студії, 2023 This article addresses verbal representations of the mythic concept JÖTUNN (Engl. JOTUN) in Old Norse eddic texts. Jötnar as supernatural beings inherent to the Nordic mythic space are regarded as a class of open systems marked by a set of hypertrophied ...
Oleksandr Kolesnyk
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Keel ja Kirjandus, 2023 The dictionary of Estonian dialects (EMS) lists oht as three lexical items: oht1 (= South Estonian oht) ‘1 peril, danger, menace; jeopardy, risk, hazard; 2 distress’; oht2 ‘(herbal) medicine, drug, antidote’; and the partitive-only ohtu ‘-like, -ish ...
Santeri Junttila
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The Middle English Creolization Hypothesis: Persistence, Implications, and Language Ideology
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2019 Bailey and Maroldt (1977) and Domingue (1977) were the first to argue that language contact during the Middle Ages between Old English and both Old Norse and Norman French resulted in linguistic creolization.
O’Neil David
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