Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology II: Rhyme as an Inherited Device of Old Germanic Verse by Frog

“…Rhyme involving the stressed syllable or word stem irrespective of subsequent syllables is shown to be a device of these poetic systems. Especially in Old English, such rhyme is used to support and reinforce the basic meter and may even fill a metrical function in the place of additional alliteration. …”
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Genesis of spatial terms by Claude Vandeloise

“…As illustrated by the preposition of Old English œt, this part of the system (LOC) evolves essentially by internal lexical formation by division. …”
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Functional Transposition of After from a Diachronic Perspective by Yurii Kovbasko

“…The preposition, which predominates throughout Old English, loses its position in favor of the adverb in the second half of the Middle English period. …”
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Eschatological Expectations in the Early Christian Anglo-Saxon Tradition by Anna Proskurina

“… This article is devoted to the problem of interdisciplinary study of linguacultural transfer based on the material of the Old English poem Judgment Day (I), included in the Exeter manuscript dating back to the 10 th century, considered in the aspect of eschatological expectations in the early Christian Anglo-Saxon tradition. …”
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Some Reflections on the Language of Contemporary Scottish Prose by Dora Maček

“… A northern variety of Old English developed in Scotland into what has become known as Scots. …”
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From O Paiz do Carnaval to Il Paese del Carnevale And Le Pays du Carnaval: the paratexts of the italian and French Translations by Sandra Bagno

“…Presupposing that, before the publication of the first edition of the novel (1931), the Italian lexicographer Panzini had already rejected, for Italy, the old English nicknames carnival land and land of carnival; this article wants to highlight which interpretations were vehicled, both by the paratext of the Italian translation and by the one of the French translation (1990), written by Alice Raillard. …”
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Pragmatic tolerance: implications for the acquisition of informativeness and implicature. by Katsos, N, Bishop, D

“…We report three studies with 5-to-6-year-old English-speaking children and adults employing utterances involving scalar and non-scalar expressions. …”

The Igil and Exeter Book Riddle 15 by Cavell, M

“…Riddle 15 is one of the longest and most elaborate animal-riddles in the tenth-century Exeter Book of Old English poetry. The debate over which animal appears in this compelling tale of a family’s flight and the mother’s final stand against their canine attacker has not yet been put to rest. …”

The travels of treason by Lobban, M

“…In India, the interpretation of the provision of the penal code against ‘waging war’ against the government was influenced by old English ideas of ‘constructive’ treason and used against those who challenged British rule. …”

Scrambling and Information Focus in Old and Contemporary Portuguese by Ana Maria Martins

“…The view that scrambling may induce loss or downgrading of discourse/ informational prominence as it removes constituents from the clause-final position to which such prominence is assigned is supported by cross-linguistic evidence (Taylor & Pintzuk 2010 for Old English, Pinkster 1990 and Devine & Stephens 2006 for Latin).…”
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Historical “gothic” novel in the context of English preromantic literature by Grigorieva Elena Valentinovna

“…Walpole, 1764) is replaced by the rejection of the historical and geographical exoticism and transferring activities in a much closer historical Age (K. Reeve “Old English Baron”, 1777). Image of real historical figures and famous historical events was a major literary discovery of the historic Gothic novel (S.Li “Refuge, or Tale of other times”, 1785), is preceded in this regard in the work by W. …”
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Learning the Lord’s Prayer in Gothic: A Personal Best Achievement for American High School Students by Robert Oliphant

“…But we also go back to Old English (before 1066) and even to so-called primitive Germanic, as represented by a translation of the Lord’s Prayer from the original Greek into fourth century Gothic.As a snapshot of our linguistic past, this Gothic translation is quite short (10 lines). …”
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English-Speaking Children’s Interpretation of Disjunction in the Scope of ‘not every’ by Anna Notley, Rosalind Thornton, Stephen Crain

“…This study examined 4- to 5-year-old English-speaking children’s inter-pretations of sentences containing negation, the universal quantifier, and disjunction. …”
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Hellenic Language and Thought in Pre-Conquest England by Eleni Ponirakis

“…This paper will outline the evidence for the use of Greek language in a variety of contexts, including a charm for the staunching of blood, and it will examine the extent of the influence of Greek patristic thinking in Old English texts including both clerical prose and secular poetry.…”
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A Critical Approach to Social Function in the Preface to the Pastoral Care by Dolores Fernández Martínez

“…The strategic dynamic generated by their linguistic patterns evinces the implicit display of King Alfred’s authority as well as the presence of issues of power and social inequality that have been attributed to the preface by traditional research. Key words: Old English, Preface to the Pastoral Care, critical analysis, functional grammar. …”
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Ambivalence between mercantile culture and chivalry in the alliterative morte arthure. by Woo, Damien Kai Ming

“…This “heroic quality” can be further explained by Larry Benson who “points out similarities between the Morte Arthure and Old English literature, arguing that in both [,] the principal concerns are feasting and fighting” (76). …”
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Rewriting Gregory the Great: the prison analogy in Napier Homily I by Thomas, D

“…The Old English homily known as Napier I survives in two distinct versions. …”

‘Closing the gap’: the conditions under which children in care are most likely to catch up in mainstream schools by Sinclair, I, Fletcher, J, O'Higgins, A, Luke, N, Thomas, S

“…In a cohort of 542,998 16-year-old English children in mainstream schools, those in care for at least a year were on average 148,465 ranks behind their peers on measured attainment at age 7. …”

The layout of English newspapers in Sabah during the Jesselton era (1899-1967) by Grisha Henry William

“…Prior to this, the researcher believes that this particular research will help to transcribe the old English newspapers into documentation, thus become more assessable when it is published into academic writings. …”
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Long-term adjuvant metronomic chemotherapy in a dog with recurrent maxillofacial osteosarcoma by MJ Jung, KY Yoon, YM Kim, JS Lee, JW Choi, JH Kim, HY Yoon, JH Kim

“…The role of adjuvant chemotherapy has been questioned in maxillary OSA and melanoma. A 17-year-old English Cocker Spaniel was referred with a growing mass on the right maxilla and a right lower lip mass. …”
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