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Vocalisations Evidence from Germanic
… are particularly prevalent in the history of Germanic languages and have affected sounds from all places of articulation. This study will address two main questions. The first is why vocalisations happen so regularly in Germanic languages in comparison with other language families. The second …
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Geminate Resonants in Germanic
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Word Order in the Older Germanic Dialects
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The Generative Approach to Selected Problems in Germanic
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Germanic future constructions: A usage-based approach to grammaticalization
This study offers a new approach to grammatical constructions that express futurity in Danish, Dutch, English, German, and Swedish. Future constructions develop out of lexical elements whose meanings persist to some degree in modern usage. Future constructions thus convey not only future time …
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The Beowulf Poet's Accommodation Of Pre-Christian Germanic Culture
… more accommodating perspective on pre-Christian Germanic culture, when examined in comparison to other, later Germanic authors of works such as Icelandic sagas and Danish pseudo-history. The primary components of Beowulf I address to argue for this point are the poet's incorporation of pagan …
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Operations on lexical forms : unaccusative rules in Germanic languages
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1986.
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Medieval Gaming: The (Re)Construction of the Germanic Heroic Tradition
Esta tesis doctoral está enmarcada en la disciplina académica de los Estudios de Medievalismo, rama de los Estudios Medievales y de los Estudios Culturales, y examina la apropiación y ludificación de la tradición heroica germánica por parte del medio digital de los videojuegos, un proceso que tiene …
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"Proto-germanic ""auslautsgesetze"" In The Noun Paradigms: A Study And Bibliography"
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A Semantic Syntax of Grammatical Negation in the Older Germanic Dialects
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Voicing in transition. Laryngeal characteristics in West-Germanic and Italo-Romance dialects
Contains fulltext : 200514.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Federalism and Federation in Europe: A Comparative Study of The Germanic Tradition
… identify the six “dimensions" of a distinctive, "Germanic”, tradition of federalism. Second, the detailed analysis in the thesis of the use of federalism during the first half of the nineteenth century shows how, within existing federations, a wide range of political groupings constituting the …
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Anglo-Saxon Descent, Antiquarian Scholarship, and Germanic Englishness, c. 1560 - c. 1620
… native Britonnic populations to the transplanted Germanic groups that had migrated to Britain in the post-Roman fifth century. In modern scholarship, early modern interest in the Anglo-Saxon past has been primarily ascribed to Protestant polemicists who sought evidence that the ancient English …
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Medieval translation as 'certamen': The Germanic versions of ''Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion''
The phenomenon of medieval translation has been discussed many times, resulting in the conflicting premises that either medieval translation was not as faithful to the original as its modern counterpart, or that medieval translators were excessively literal. These points of view are informed by the …
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The Strange and the Familiar: Shakespeare as a Point of Anglo-Germanic Cultural Exchange
One way of approaching an argumentative, academic essay is to conceive of two parts: a site, or subject of examination, and a lens, the context or paradigm in which the scholar examines that subject. This thesis illustrates the process by which the works of William Shakespeare have functioned as …
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The Development of The Proto-Germanic Obstruent System: A Critical Analysis and A Generative Approach
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The Germanic toponymicon of Southern Scotland:place-name elements and their contribution to the lexicon and onomasticon
… is an examination of the contribution of the Germanic place-names of southern Scotland to the onomasticon and lexicon of Britain generally and Scotland specifically. By building a corpus of the Germanic place-names so far identified in the south of Scotland, and interrogating this data in the …
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The Syntax of Non-Verbal Causation: The Causative Apomorphy of 'From' in Greek and Germanic Languages
<p>This is a study of the meaning and syntax of non-(lexical)verbal causation. Macroscopically, it examines the preposition 'from' as attested in contexts like "X is/comes from Y". Syntactic diagnostics are applied to formally distinguish the causative from the spatial interpretations of `from'-PPs …
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A Grammar of the Idiom: Theory Development and Its Application to Old French and Old West Germanic
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A Comparison of Perceptions of Selected Germanic Executives to Determine if Case-Study Analysis Education Affects Their Decision-Making Process
… based on the perceptions of the seventy-seven Germanic executives interviewed in this study: (1) Case-study analysis education has not been effective as a modifier to the decision-making process. (2) Case-study analysis education develops the same level of decisional balance for both private …
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