The Ormulum in the Seventeenth Century: The Manuscript and Its Early Readers [PDF]
Neophilologus, 2017 The most recent edition of the Ormulum by Robert Holt (The Ormulum, with the notes and glossary of Dr. R. M. White, OUP, Oxford, 1878) pays little or no attention to its seventeenth-century readers and owners: the philologists Jan van Vliet (1622–1666) and Francis Junius (1591–1677).
Kees Dekker
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Stylistic Fronting in the Ormulum - Scandinavian Syntactic Phenomena in Early Middle English Texts [PDF]
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 This paper deals with Scandinavian influence in Early Middle English texts and especially with one syntactic phenomenon, stylistic fronting. It is claimed here that the OV/VO word order change in Early Middle English was triggered by language contact ...
Carola Trips
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Metrical Revisions in the Ormulum Manuscript
SELIMThe Ormulum is a long and complex early Middle English text extant in a single medieval manuscript. The majority of the text comprises verse homilies, making for a total of around twenty thousand regular lines.
Andrew Cooper
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Johannesson, Nils-Lennart, and Andrew Cooper, eds. 2023. The Ormulum. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xxviii + 655. ISBN 9780192890436. [PDF]
SELIMBook review of Johannesson, Nils-Lennart, and Andrew Cooper, eds. 2023. The Ormulum. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xxviii + 655. ISBN 9780192890436.
Amos van Baalen
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The etymology of 'rime' in the Ormulum
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2004 Standard reference works have regarded the word rime in the Middle English Ormulum as a French loanword meaning 'metre'. In this article, it will be argued that this interpretation of rime, as well as the accompanying etymology, are erroneous; it is ...
Nils-Lennart Johannesson
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The Purpose of Double Accenting in the Ormulum and a Possible French Connection
Neophilologus, 2023 AbstractBased on a study contrasting the spellings of the Ormulum’s (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 1) Hand C with those of Orm, this article proposes that final < tt > did not necessarily indicate a short preceding vowel in the hypothesized spelling system which Orm sought to reform, and that the Ormulum’s double accent marks might serve to
Jannis Jakobs
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Crossing the Borders between Meter, Syntax and Information Structure. Some Methodological Notes
Lea, 2023 This paper discusses how combining research in meter, syntax and information structure can enhance our understanding of the syntax of a given historical text and help provide insights into the relation between metrical prominence and information ...
Chiara De Bastiani
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Loss of MID in English: Free Peasantry and Their Linguistic Advantage
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 251-269, July 2023., 2023 Abstract The paper deals with the mysterious loss of a common preposition MID in the historical development of English. The issue is examined using a quantitative method combined with a historical sociolinguistic focus on the free peasantry in the East Midlands and Kent.
Rongkun Liu
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Icc hafe don swa summ Þu bad: an anatomy of the Preface to the Ormulum
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Anaplasia reflection in the future tense formation of the germanic languages
Актуальні проблеми української лінгвістики: теорія і практика, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/APULTP.2022.45.65-80 The purpose of this article is to separate grammatical structures that demonstrate the development of the future tense forms in the Germanic languages.
Valeria Bondarenko +2 more
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