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The Genius of Old Romance

2020
Abstract In 1803 two new translations of Amadis were published: from French, by W. S. Rose, and from Spanish, by Robert Southey. It was through Southey’s editions of Amadis and Palmerin (1807), another Spanish romance, that Keats, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and Hazlitt gained their knowledge of the genre.
H. Moore
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Accusative Alternation in Old and Modern Romance

2005
Abstract This chapter investigates the evolution of the argument structure of (psychological) transfer verbs from Latin to Romance. It proposes that the original Latin structure — a construction labelled as accusative alternation in parallelism with the locative alternation or the dative alternation — consists of a small clause selected ...
Anna Bartra
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Inversion as a residual old Romance V2 grammar

Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian, 2019
This chapter focuses on ‘inversion’ in the verbal domain (i.e. verb–auxiliary and verb–pronominal clitic linearizations) and shows that old Romanian inversion represents the residual instantiation of an old Romance V2 grammar by means of a word order pattern widespread in the Balkan languages – the so-called ‘Long Head Movement’ pattern.
Alexandru Nicolae
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Old Romance in English Verse

South Atlantic Bulletin, 1943
Alfred G. Engstrom, Charles Maxwell Lancaster   +1 more
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Saints and Sinners in Old Romance

Books Abroad, 1944
Raphael Levy, Charles Maxwell Lancaster
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Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives

2007
In this paper we take the existence of Bare Noun Phrases acting as subjects or displaced complements as evidence for the licensing properties of Functional Categories other that Determiner Phrase in earlier stages of Romance Languages such as Spanish and Catalan.
Anna Bartra-Kaufman
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Art. XIX.—An old Hebrew Romance of Alexander

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1897
More marvellous and more remarkable than the real conquests of Alexander are the stories circulated about him, and the legends which have clustered round his name and his exploits. The history of Alexander has, from a very early period, been embellished with legends and tales. They spread from nation to nation during the whole of the ancient times, and
M. Gaster
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Clause Structure and Illocutionary Force in Medieval Gallo-Romance: Clitic Position in Old Occitan and Early Old French Sentential Coordination

Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics, 2021
This paper analyzes the position of object and adverbial clitic pronouns in coordinated affirmative verb-first declaratives introduced by e(t) “and” in Old Occitan and early Old French, a context in which clitics are variably preverbal or postverbal.
B. Donaldson
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Jewish Aramaic in Old Romance?

The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1979
A. Ehrman
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The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’sThese Old Shades

Women, 2015
: When romance fiction consolidated as a genre in the 1920s and 1930s, a series of generic conventions concerning the heterosexual imperatives came about.
Stacy Gillis
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