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Are there Slavonic features in the syntax of Romanian? Two case studies [PDF]

Diacronia, 2015
The present paper discusses the issue of the Old Church Slavonic influence on the syntax of (old) Romanian. The starting point is the hypothesis that many of the syntactic features of Romanian previously explained by postulating the influence of (Old ...
Adina Dragomirescu
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Teaching Eros: The Rhetoric of Love in the 'Tale of Livistros and Rodamne,' the 'Roman de la Rose,' and the 'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili'

Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2017
The paper brings together three rather unlikely texts, the thirteenth-century Byzantine romance The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne, the thirteenth-century Old French Roman de la Rose, and the fifteenth-century Italian prose romance Hypnerotomachia ...
Efthymia Priki
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Permeable borders, possible worlds: history and identity in the novels of Michèle Roberts [PDF]

, 2003
Since the publication of her first novel, A Piece of the Night, in 1978, Michele Roberts’ fiction has continually returned to epiphanic moments which elide divisions in time and space.
White, Rosie
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V1 clauses and EPP in Old Italian

Isogloss
This work discusses some aspects of the so-called “relaxed verb-second hypothesis” for Old Romance languages focusing on Old Italian data. Although the idea that Medieval Romance varieties displayed some kind of verb-second grammar is often accepted in ...
Andrea Matticchio
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Word order in the Old Italian DP [PDF]

, 2015
In this article I examine the impact of a cartographic approach on research about diachronic change and investigate the internal structure of the DP in Old Italian (OI).
Poletto, Cecilia
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The fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton [PDF]

, 2014
This chapter follows the fortunes of Arthur as a figure contested and celebrated in equal measure between Malory's Morte Darthur (1485), and Milton's History of Britain (1670).
Maley, Willy, Swann, Adam
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Deconstructing Japanese Romance Films through the Lens of Wabi-sabi, Mono no aware, Yūgen, and Kawaii (1990-2010)

CINEJ Cinema Journal
This study takes a close look at Japanese romance films made between 1990 and 2010, examining them through both traditional and modern Japanese aesthetic ideas such as Wabi-sabi, Mono no aware, Yūgen, and Kawaii.
Fengmuhan Li
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The nominalized infinitive in French : structure and change [PDF]

Linguística, 2010
Many European languages have both nominal and verbal nominalized infinitives. They differ, however, in the degree to which the nominalized infinitives possess nominal and verbal properties.
Petra Sleeman
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Parameters in Old Romance word order1

, 2012
This chapter examines medieval Romance word order patterns concentrating on XP-V-subject and Aux-XP-V-participle. It argues both patterns are related to each other in that the latter overtly shows the position of some XP at the boundary of the vP phase.
Mensching, Guido, Galves, Charlotte
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Insular sources and analogues of the otherworld in the middle english Sir Orfeo

The Grove, 2018
The Middle English Sir Orfeo presents a medievalized version of the classical myth of Orpheus that shows the influence of Celtic lore. Modern scholars seem to have accepted the views of A. J.
Jordi Sánchez Martí
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