From OV to VO in Early Middle English
From OV to VO in Early Middle English

Author: Carola Trips

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9789027227812

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Discusses syntax and word order changes in Middle English dialects, with an emphasis on the shift from sentences where the object precedes the verb to those where the verb comes first, and considers pronouns and literary style.

Strange Likeness
Strange Likeness

Author: Chris Jones

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2010-10-14

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0191614653

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Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. Chapters deal with Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and Seamus Heaney. Stylistic debts to Old English are examined, along with the effects on these poets' work of specific ideas about Old English language and literature as taught while these poets were studying the subject at university. Issues such as linguistic primitivism, the supposed 'purity' of the English language, the politics and ethics of translation, and the construction of 'Englishness' within the literary canon are discussed in the light of these poets and their Old English encounters. Heaney's translation of Beowulf is fully contextualized within the body of the rest of his work for the first time.

Transforming Early English
Transforming Early English

Author: Jeremy J. Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1108420389

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Considers how medieval English and Scots texts were re-worked in later centuries, and the implications for philological theory and practice.

The Cambridge History of the English Language
The Cambridge History of the English Language

Author: Richard M. Hogg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-08-13

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9780521264754

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Volume II of The Cambridge History of the English Language covers the Middle English Period, describing and analyzing developments in the languge from the Norman Conquest to the introduction of printing.

A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century
A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century

Author: Mark Faulkner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-07-28

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1009033093

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A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period that saw the end of the Old English tradition and the beginning of Middle English writing. It discusses numerous neglected or unknown texts, focusing particularly on documents, chronicles and sermons. To tell the story of this pivotal period, it adopts approaches from both literary criticism and historical linguistics, finding a synthesis for them in a twenty-first century philology. It develops new methodologies for addressing major questions about twelfth-century texts, including when they were written, how they were read and their relationship to earlier works. Essential reading for anyone interested in what happened to English after the Norman Conquest, this study lays the groundwork for the coming decade's work on transitional English.

English Historical Syntax and Morphology
English Historical Syntax and Morphology

Author: Teresa Fanego

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2002-07-18

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9027297738

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This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the fields of English historical syntax and morphology. Some of the issues discussed are the emergence of viewpoint adverbials in English and German, changes in noun phrase structure from 1650 to the present, the development of the progressive in Scots, the passivization of composite predicates, the loss of V2 and its effects on the information structure of English, the acquisition of modal syntax and semantics by the English verb WANT, or the use of temporal adverbs as attributive adjectives in the Early Modern period. Many of the articles tackle questions of change through the use of methodological tools like computerized corpora. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, grammaticalization theory, Dik’s model of functional grammar, construction grammar and Government & Binding Theory.