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The Gift in Old English Literature
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The Evolution of Old English Meter
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Old English semantic primes: Events, movement, contact
Esta tesis doctoral se enmarca dentro de la teoría del Natural Semantic Metalanguage y se centra en la búsqueda de los exponentes en inglés antiguo de los primitivos semánticos TOUCH, HAPPEN y MOVE. La tesis se presenta como un compendio de artículos, cada uno de ellos dedicado a un universal …
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Metodes Meahta in Six Old English Poems
… of unity was the primary concern of the Old English poets, who aimed to use the power of poetry to teach their people how their hope for immortality might be realized under Christianity. Their concern is evident from their poetic diction and themes that have an origin in common values of …
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Word formation of place names in old english /
Word Formation of Place Names in Old English This bachelor thesis is focused on word formation of place-names in Old English. The aim of this bachelor paper is to analyse word formation types of place-names found in Old English Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. To accomplish it, the following objectives were …
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Evidence of Old English Sound Changes in Chaucer
… most interesting features in the whole field of English is the study of that "glorious and imperial mongrel, the English Language." Imperial in the sense that it consists of a dominant strain which is the result of a fusion of various languages; and glorious because it is not only the means of …
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The Old English Exodus and the patristic tradition
… to recognize the artistic excellence of the Old English <i>Exodus</i>, most have approached the poem presuming a narrative structure, and therefore a thematic structure, based on the three modern editions of the poem. The structure attributed by modern editors, however, has been determined …
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The Lemmatisation of The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry with a Relational Database of Old English Dictionaries
This dissertation addresses the lemmatisation of Old English poetry, filling a crucial gap in the fields of Lexicography, corpus linguistics and Historical linguistics. To be more precise, this study aims to systematically group the attested spellings of the York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old …
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"Narration and vision in the Old English ""Genesis B"""
The Old English poem Genesis B is a complex narrative representation of the actions and motivations of Satan, Adam, and Eve, based on a theological understanding of these characters' modes of perception and capacity for spiritual vision. Its narrative concurrently is a description of the biblical …
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Lemmatisation of old english strong verbs on a lexical database
… índice y un índice inverso de The Dictionary of Old English Corpus. The Grid no está basado en formas de diccionario, sino en atestiguaciones textuales. De todas las líneas de investigación posibles que esta nueva organización de la base de datos ofrece, este trabajo se hace cargo de la …
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Old English Poetical Motives Derived from the Docterine of Sin
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. 1900. Major: Literature. 1 computer file (PDF); 42 pages.
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Constructing the Christian: Agency and Emulation in Old English Poetry
<p>Old English religious verse - born out of a productive fusion between pre-existing Germanic ideals and Christian value-systems brought to England at the end of the sixth century - grapples energetically with the question of how people ought to live morally upright lives pleasing to God. In …
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A study of compound hapax legomena in Old English poetry
… the use of a particular type of compound word in Old English poetry, the compound which is uniquely attested. Compounds, which in Old English poetry are chiefly substantival and adjectival, are especially important in context because they consist of two words that in the normal vocabulary already …
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Cruciform runes in the manuscripts of some Old English poems
… reinforce existing interpretations or to point old views in new directions. That is, the form of a rune, especially a "cruciform" rune, may serve to give special symbolic force to the passage or poem which contains it, and runes may also serve to evoke generally the ethos of an older, heroic …
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"Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English ""Beowulf"
… poetic language. Also, Beowulf, along with other Old English poems, provides evidence for stress and archaic linguistic features, neither of which is available in prose. By closely examining the text that supposedly represents the earliest stage of the North- and West-Germanic, the present work …
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The Allegory of War: Spiritual Warfare in Old English Poetry
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Pledges and Agreements in Old English - A Semantic Field Study
This dissertation investigates the Old English word field for the concepts of ‘pledges’ and agreements by analysing the words belonging to the field in their contextual environments. The particular focus is on the word wedd (‘pledge’), which is shown to have different connotations in different text …
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The Classes of Old English Inaction Verbs: Linking, Alternations and Constructions
… thesis deals with the syntax and semantics of Old English. To be more precise, it focuses on a group of verbs that can be called inaction verbs (roughly corresponding to Present-Day English end, try, fail, forbid, hinder and refrain) and aims at determining the class membership of these verbs. …
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The Lemmatisation of Old English Weak Verbs on a Relational Database
… que están atestiguadas en el Dictionary of Old English Corpus (DOEC) y que están disponibles en el lematizador Norna, las fuentes lexicográficas que existen publicadas sobre esta lengua, principalmente el Dictionary of Old English (DOE), y otras fuentes textuales como el …
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