\u27Those Who Cling in Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues and Memories of an Elder Day\u27: J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns and Elves [PDF]
, 2016 Those Who Cling in Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues and Memories of an Elder Day\u27 J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns and Elves Dr. Andrew Higgins In this paper I will explore how several historic, literary and mythic associations of the Finnish people with ...
Higgins, Andrew Scott
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Review of: West over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement Before 1300. A Festschrift in honour of Dr Barbara E. Crawford [PDF]
, 2010 No abstract ...
Foster, S.
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Norsk namnebok av Torleiv Hannaas – boka som aldri kom
Namn og Nemne, 2023 At his death in 1929, Torleiv Hannaas, professor of Norwegian dialectology and folk traditions at Bergens Museum (now University of Bergen), left an unfinished manuscript about Norwegian personal names.
Kristoffer Kruken
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‘Insular isles, insular speech’? Language change in the Shetland Islands
Moderna Språk, 2012 The Shetland Isles, a group of islands settled in the North Sea approximately halfway between Norway and Scotland, are perhaps popularly best known for ponies, sheep dogs, and knitwear.
Peter Sundkvist
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From \u3ci\u3eHeo\u3c/i\u3e to \u3ci\u3eZir\u3c/i\u3e: A History of Gender Expression in the English Language [PDF]
, 2018 With the growing presence of the LGBTQ+ community on the global stage, the matter of gender has been rushed to the forefront of the public consciousness.
Robinson, Brodie
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Revista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2021 As this issue of The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies illustrates despite the fact that Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea Region are sometimes perceived and self-perceived in terms of otherness, they share many of the assumptions, values ...
Silviu Miloiu
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Proper Name as a Marker of a Cosmogonic Song [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2017 The purpose of this article is to show the internal integrity of the Eddic Grímnismál (Sayings of Grímnir), putting forward that the proper name is the key element for understanding the structure and meaning of this Eddic song.
Tatiana V. Toporova
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General linguistics and Indo-European reconstruction [PDF]
, 2010 There is good reason to be ambivalent about the usefulness of general considerations in linguistic reconstruction. As a heuristic device, a theoretical framework can certainly be helpful, but the negative potential of aprioristic considerations must not ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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On the Decline of Pleonastic that in Late Middle English and Early Modern English [PDF]
, 2016 The origin of pleonastic that can be traced back to Old English where it could appear in syntactic constructions consisting of a preposition + demonstrative pronoun (i.e. for þy þat, for þæm þe) or a subordinator (i.e. oþ þat).
Calle-Martin, Javier
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Syntactic reconstruction in Indo-European : the state of the art [PDF]
, 2016 Interest in syntactic reconstruction was implicit in the work of the founding fathers of the Comparative Method, including Franz Bopp and his contemporaries. The Neo-Grammarians took a more active interest in syntactic issues, concentrating especially on
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