The Word Order Of Aelfric

Author : Graeme Davis
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039102702

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Comparative Syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic by Graeme Davis Pdf

Study of the syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic has for long been dominated by the impressions of early philologists. Their assertions that these languages were «free» in their word-order were for many years unchallenged. Only within the last two decades has it been demonstrated that the word-order of each shows regular patterns which approach the status of rules, and which may be precisely described. This book takes the subject one step further by offering a comparison of the syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic, the two best-preserved Old Germanic languages. Overwhelmingly the two languages show the same word-order patterns - as do the other Old Germanic languages, at least as far as can be determined from the fragments which have survived. It has long been recognised that Old English and Old Icelandic have a high proportion of common lexis and very similar morphology, yet the convention has been to emphasise the differences between the two as representatives respectively of the West and North sub-families of Germanic. The argument of this book is that the similar word-order of the two should instead lead us to stress the similarities between the two languages. Old English and Old Icelandic were sufficiently close to be mutually comprehensible. This thesis receives copious support from historical and literary texts. Our understanding of the Old Germanic world should be modified by the concept of a common «Northern Speech» which provided a common Germanic ethnic identity and a platform for the free flow of cultural ideas.

Author : Graeme Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019300438

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The Word-order of Aelfric by Graeme Davis Pdf

This volume provides a descriptive study of word-order (or element-order) within specified clause types in a corpus drawn from lfric's Catholic Homilies and Supplementary Homilies. A sample of 11,543 clauses has been analyzed, divided into fourteen clause categories. A survey of the element-order within each category is presented, with copious examples and full statistics.

Author : Judith Anne Johnson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111715278

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A transformational analysis of the syntax of Ælfric's Lives of saints by Judith Anne Johnson Pdf

Author : Christopher A. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139425780

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Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham by Christopher A. Jones Pdf

Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric also composed a Latin 'letter' to his fellow monks at Eynsham (Oxfordshire) containing a detailed outline of their daily and seasonal round of prayer and other duties. The document offers a rare glimpse of what ordinary monks in Anglo-Saxon England were expected to know and do. This 1999 book contains an edition of the Latin letters a textual commentary, and a complete English translation of the work. Dr Jones also provides substantial introductory chapters which establish the exceptional importance of the Eynsham letter for our understanding of late Anglo-Saxon monasticism and liturgy. The book will interest students of early medieval culture, monasticism and Church history.

Author : Hugh Magennis,Mary Swan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047430254

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A Companion to Ælfric by Hugh Magennis,Mary Swan Pdf

This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of Ælfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Jonathan Hill
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227179062

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Dictionary of Theologians by Jonathan Hill Pdf

An exhaustive guide to every significant Christian theologian who lived from the first century to 1308, the year in which John Duns Scotus died. The dictionary encompasses the Catholic, Orthodox, Nestorian and Monophysite traditions, including information not previously available in English. Thoroughly indexed, the dictionary incorporates common variants of names and concepts which will help and direct the reader. The main criterion for inclusion has been contribution to the development of Christian theology. Sub-criteria by which that is measured include, above all, originality and influence on later figures. With over 290 entries, the dictionary provides a handy summary of theologiansi lives and writings together with recent scholarship,as well as an up-to-date, definitive bibliography listing primary texts, translations and secondary literature in the major western European languages. Useful for all levels of academia; no other text matches the depth of the dictionaryis bibliographies. The unprecedented thoroughness of Hill's compilation provides an essential resource for studies at all levels on such a large and varied range of Church thinkers.

Author : John H. Connolly
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311013389X

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Constituent Order in Functional Grammar by John H. Connolly Pdf

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Author : Marian C. Bean
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0389203564

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The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English by Marian C. Bean Pdf

The major focus of this book involves the testing of theories of word order change with data on change in Old English. The data are drawn from such sources as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and from the work of other scholars in Old English and historical linguistics. The book provides support for the ideas of earlier linguists such as Sapir, and will represent a major study for those working in Old English and historical linguistics. Contents: Introduction; Natural Word Order Types and Natural Word Order Change; Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic Word Order Patterns; Order of Major Elements in Main Clauses in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; Word Order Patterns in Conjunct, Relative and Subordinate Clauses; Further Studies in Old English Word Order; Conclusions.^R

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004653634

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From Ælfric to the New York Times by Anonim Pdf

The twenty papers of this volume - published to honour Gunnel Tottie - are of interest to everyone concerned with the study of the English language. The collection is a convincing argument for an approach to language studies based on the analysis of computerized corpora. Though this is not an introduction to the field but a series of highly specialized studies, readers get a good overview of the work being done at present in English computer corpus studies. English corpus linguistics, though basically concerned with the study of varieties of English, goes far beyond the simple ordering and counting of large numbers of examples but is deeply concerned with linguistic theory - based on real language data. The volume includes sections on corpora of written and spoken present-day English, historical corpora, contrastive corpora, and on the application of corpus studies to teaching purposes.

Author : Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107129054

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The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English by Laurel J. Brinton Pdf

Based on a rich set of historical data, this book traces the development of pragmatic markers in English, from hw't in Old English and whilom in Middle English to whatever and I'm just saying in present-day English. Laurel J. Brinton carefully maps the syntactic origins and development of these forms, and critically examines postulated unilineal pathways, such as from adverb to conjunction to discourse marker, or from main clause to parenthetical. The book sets case studies within a larger examination of the development of pragmatic markers as instances of grammaticalization or pragmaticalization. The characteristics of pragmatic markers - as primarily oral, syntactically optional, sentence-external, grammatically indeterminate elements - are revised in the context of scholarship on pragmatic markers over the last thirty or more years.

Author : David L. Cooper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299383

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Linguistic Attractors by David L. Cooper Pdf

The interdisciplinary linguistic attractor model portrays language processing as linked sequences of fractal sets, and examines the changing dynamics of such sets for individuals as well as the speech community they comprise. Its motivation stems from human anatomic constraints and several artificial neural network approaches. It uses general computation theory to: (1) demonstrate the capacity of Cantor-like fractal sets to perform as Turing Machines; (2) better distinguish between models that simply match outputs (emulation) and models that match both outputs and internal dynamics (simulation); and (3) relate language processing to essential computation steps executed in parallel. Measure and information theory highlight the key variables driving linguistic dynamics, while catastrophe and game theory help predict the possible topologies of language change.It introduces techniques to isolate and measure attractors, and to interpret their stability and relative content within a system. Important results include the capability to distinguish the sequence of related sound changes, and to make point-to-point comparisons of different texts using common metrics. Other techniques allow quantifiable ambiguity landscapes illustrating the forces that propel different languages in different directions.

Author : Roger Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000573992

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Old English Prose and Verse by Roger Fowler Pdf

Originally published in 1966, this book provides students of the earliest stage of our literature with a selection of texts for a complete introductory course. All the principal poems and prose works in this literature are represented, including more generous extracts from Beowulf than are common in anthologies of this type. By omitting texts of primarily philological and historical interest it has been possible to include enough literary texts to satisfy all but the advanced student, who will follow this volume with the specialised editions available. A departure from the traditional design of Old English anthologies is the provision of full critical and annotative apparatus. In the past it has been necessary for students to go beyond their Readers, to specialised editions or to learned articles, in order to discover even the most basic information about the extracts or their content. Here each text is accompanied by an introduction which gives brief details of (where known) date, authorship, manuscript situation, character and critical interest. Line-by-line explanatory notes are also provided, and a bibliography of books and articles for further study. The glossary aims to be more explicit about form and meaning, and easier to use than those of earlier selections.

Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027932506

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Historical Syntax by Jacek Fisiak Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Author : Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.)
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : English language
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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AElfric's Colloquy by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) Pdf

Author : Alison Gulley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317035534

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The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives by Alison Gulley Pdf

The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives addresses 10th-century Old English hagiographical translations, from Latin source material, by the abbot and grammarian Ælfric. The vitae of Agnes, Agatha, Lucy, and Eugenia, and the married saints Daria, Basilissa, and Cecilia, included in Ælfric's s Old English Lives of Saints, recount the lives, persecution, and martyrdom of young women who renounce sex and, in the first four stories, marriage, to devote their lives to Christian service. They purport to be about the primacy of virginity and the role of the body in attaining sanctity. However, a comparison of the Latin sources with Ælfric's versions suggests that his translation style, characterized by simplifying the most important meanings of the text, omits certain words or entire episodes that foreground suppressed female sexuality as key to sainthood. The Old English Lives de-emphasize the physical nature of faith and highlight the importance of spiritual purity. In this volume, Alison Gulley explores how the context of the Benedictine Reform in late Anglo-Saxon England and Ælfric's commitment to writing for a lay audience resulted in a set of stories depicting a spirituality distinct from physical intactness.