John Milton: Puritan Tradition and Political Languages in XVIIth Century by Laura MITAROTONDO

“…In these terms, we’ll analyze the Commonplace Book, a collection of commentaries about texts and authors, and about various subjects: the interpretations of Machiavelli in the Old English tradition of the Modern age, the idea of man’s freedom and his relationship with natural law and political authority, according to the general perspective of the Puritan religion, which characterizes Milton’s political language.…”
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Remarkable Similarities between Traditional Chinese and Anglo–Saxon England's Naming Customs by Emma Woo Louie

“…Because of the tendency to equate Chinese names with Western names, the best comparison is the two-worded Anglo-Saxon name of Old English or Old Germanic origins. Name customs in China and Anglo- Saxon England, prior to the Norman Conquest in 1066, were remarkably similar despite the geographical distance between the two countries and the differences in language and culture. …”
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Its glory is in its age : grandeur et décadence dans l’expérience de l’environnement architectural victorien by Isabelle Cases

“…On the other hand, eminent participants to the architectural debates of the period underlined the necessity to preserve monuments of the past and ancient buildings, and did not hesitate to praise « Old English » styles. Ageing in the Victorian architectural environment could therefore be synonymous with greatness or decline, sublimation or degradation, depending on the social and intellectual context.…”
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The Derivative Aspect of the Formation of the Prefixal and Onomasiological Category of Negation by Olga Migorian

“…The article addresses the formation of the prefixal and onomasiological category of Negation in Old English, Middle English, Early New English and New English. …”
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The departure of the hero in a ship: The intertextuality of Beowulf, Cynewulf and Andreas by Leneghan, F

“…This article identifies a new Old English poetic motif, ‘The Departure of the Hero in a Ship’, and discusses the implications of its presence in Beowulf, the signed poems of Cynewulf and Andreas, a group of texts already linked by shared lexis, imagery and themes. …”

Translations from Beowulf by C.S. Lewis by Horobin, S

“…It situates these translations within Lewis’s academic study of the Old English epic poem, first as an Oxford undergraduate and later as a tutor of English at Magdalen College. …”

The vernacular in Anglo-Saxon charters: expansion and innovation in ninth-century England by Gallagher, R

“…This article offers a systematic analysis of the earliest uses in charters of the Anglo-Saxon vernacular, Old English, for purposes other than describing the geographic landscape. …”

“Such Tweet Sorrow”: The Explosive Impact of New Literacies on Adolescent Responses to Live Theatre by John M. Richardson

“…Placing “theatre literacy” within the context of the New London Group’s definition of multiliteracies, and drawing on the work of Lankshear and Knobel as well as audience studies theorists, this article compares how a 17 year-old girl and a 43 year-old English teacher respond to a series of plays, and considers how growing up in a wireless world shapes adolescents’ understanding of live theatre.…”
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Newman’s Poetry: The Heart of a Victorian Renaissance Project  by Dampi Somoko

“…This is particularly true of the poetic dream in The Dream of Gerontius, which borrows characteristics from both the anonymous Old English poem The Dream of the Rood and Dante’s Divine Comedy. …”
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Anglo-Scandinavian code-mixing in English place-names by Fekete Tamás

“…The paper analyses this code-mixing in the frame-work of contact linguistics in the light of the contact situation between Old English and Old Norse, as described by Townend (2002) and Lutz (2013), that existed from the 8th century onwards, bearing in mind, however, that the Scandinavian place names may not necessarily be direct indicators of the nature and extent of the Scandinavian settlement itself. …”
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A Validation Study of the National Assessment Instruments for Young English Language Learners in Norway and Slovenia by Karmen Pižorn, Eli Moe

“…This article is a validation study of two national large-scale tests that measure the language proficiency of 11/12 year-old English learners in Norway and Slovenia. Following the example of Alderson and Banerjee (2008), the authors of the article have employed the EALTA guidelines for good practice to validate the tests, and to formulate major recommendations for improvement of both assessment instruments, where feasible (Alderson & Banerjee, 2008). …”
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Did the English really think they were God’s elect in the Anglo-Saxon period? by Molyneaux, G

“…The texts upon which this interpretation has been based are re-analysed; particular attention is devoted to the writings of Gildas, Bede, Alcuin and Wulfstan, the prose preface of the Old English ‘Pastoral care’, and the introduction to King Alfred's legislation. …”

The Present and Past Participles in the Medieval English Translations of St. John’s Gospel from Latin by Lidija Štrmelj, Milenko Lončar

“…Therefore, one may assume that Latin participles are rendered into Old English and Middle English mostly by means of their English equivalents. …”
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On Gender Marking in the English Language by Y.V. Yarovikova

“…It is revealed that the decay of gender in the English language resulted from that of case inflections which used to be the distinct gender markers of Old English noun and adjective paradigms. The paper also examines linguistic and extralinguistic causes of the development of third-person pronouns which are referred to as the main gender markers in Modern English. …”
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Language of the English-speaking Coloured child by Rosanna Milstein

“…The Ss comprised 20 nine-year old English speaking Coloured children, 9 boys and 11 girls. …”
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Linguocultural Transfer: Memplexes in the Anglo-Saxon Tradition by Proskurina A.

“…The meme theory of religion and the disappearance of religious components in the modern designation of animals from the Old English bestiary are quoted as cases of reinterpreting the values of one culture in the tradition of another.…”
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A diachronic-synchronic review of gender in English by Fernández Domínguez, Jesús

“…To this end, the expression of gender is examined and illustrated from Old English to contemporary English to observe the alternatives which language provides and the differences in each of the periods covered. …”
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Alliteration in Modern and Middle English: “Piers Plowman” by Peter Sutton

“…William Langland’s 8000-line fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman uses an alliterative rhyme scheme inherited from Old English in which, instead of a rhyme at the end of a line, at least three out of the four stressed syllables in each line begin with the same sound, and this is combined with a caesura at the mid-point of the line. …”
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SEMANTIC RELATIONS EXPRESSED BY THE CONJUNCTION “BUT” by Bezzemelnaya, O.A., Burkhanova, E.V.

“…The choice of this conjunction is not accidental, since it is one of the most common coordinative conjunctions in the English language and is dated back to the Old English period. The adversative conjunction “but” forms the prototypical core of the semantic-syntactic field of coordinative relations. …”
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The Dynamics of Postnominal Adjectives in Middle English by Veronika Volná, Pavlína Šaldová

“…Middle English was a period of transition between the free word order of Old English, with functional variation of adjective form and position with respect to the head noun, and the fixed prenominal placement of single attributive adjectives in Modern English. …”