From Beowulf to Caxton; Studies in Medieval Languages and Literature, Texts and Manuscripts

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Historical Linguistics | nr. 7
• Senshu University has hosted many international conferences on medieval English literature - primarily on Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland - as w... Lees meer

Alliteration in the Poetic Edda

Tadao Shimomiya

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Historical Linguistics | nr. 8
• This book presents a detailed analysis of the alliteration of the whole of the Poetic Edda (or Elder Edda) of the Codex Regius, using the Germanic all... Lees meer

Semantics and Word Formation; The Semantic Development of Five French Suffixes in Middle English

Cynthia Lloyd

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Historical Linguistics | nr. 6
• This book is about the integration into English of the five nominal suffixes -ment , -ance , -ation , -age and -al , which entered Middle English via ... Lees meer

Comparative Syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic

Graeme Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Historical Linguistics | nr. 1
• 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... Lees meer

'Ye whom the charms of grammar please'; Studies in English Language History in Honour of Leiv Egil Breivik

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Historical Linguistics | nr. 4
• This collection of articles by colleagues and students of Leiv Egil Breivik presents studies within both core and peripheral areas of English historic... Lees meer

Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Historical Linguistics | nr. 9
• What are the points of contact between the study of language and the study of history? What are the possibilities for collaboration between linguists ... Lees meer

Dictionary of Surrey English

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Historical Linguistics | nr. 2
• The dialect of the English county of Surrey was recorded towards the end of the Victorian age by the antiquarian Granville Leveson Gower in a volume f... Lees meer

Prepositional Infinitives in Romance

Kim Schulte

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Historical Linguistics | nr. 3
• This book examines the present-day distribution and diachronic evolution of a set of infinitival structures in Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, makin... Lees meer