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Scandinavian Studies in Germany with a Special Focus on the Position of Old and Modern Icelandic
Humanities, 2022 Scandinavian Studies today are divided into (at least) three areas, which should ideally also be represented by their own chairs at the universities, if one wants to cover the subject as broadly as possible.
Irene Kupferschmied, Magnús Hauksson
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð +3 more
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Describing Inflectional Patterns of Nouns in Old Icelandic
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2022 The Database of Old Icelandic Inflections (DOII) is a project at The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies (SÁM) at the University of Iceland with the goal to describe the inflectional patterns of Old Icelandic. DOII uses the same structure as
Ellert Thor Johannsson +1 more
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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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What Did(n’t) Happen to English?: A Re-evaluation of Some Contact Explanations in Early English
SELIM, 2023 McWhorter (2002) argued that contact with Norse caused simplifications in English grammar that set English apart from other Germanic languages. This paper focuses on one of the losses McWhorter attributed to the linguistic impact of the Scandinavian ...
Cynthia L. Allen
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Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2021 In this article we discuss the evolution of data collection and use in the context of A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP), which is a dictionary covering the medieval language of Iceland and Norway.
Ellert Thor Johannsson +2 more
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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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BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 Recommendations for clinical and molecular identification of LS, surgical and endoscopic management of LS‐associated colorectal cancer and preventive measures for cancer were produced. The emphasis was on surgical and gastroenterological aspects of the cancer spectrum.
T. T. Seppälä +18 more
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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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