Studies On Middle English Nicknames

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Genre : Reference
Author : Jan Jönsjö
Publisher : Liberlaromedel
Release : 1979
File : 240 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105038851866


Middle English Nicknames In The Lay Subsidy Rolls For Warwickshire

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Genre : English language
Author : Ingrid Hjertstedt
Publisher : Academiae Ubsaliensis
Release : 1987
File : 258 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X001312669


The Oxford Handbook Of Names And Naming

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In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and linguistic enquiry throughout the history of Western thought. The investigation of name origins is more recent, as is the study of names in literature. Relatively new is the study of names in society, which draws on techniques from sociolinguistics and has gradually been gathering momentum over the last few decades. The structure of this volume reflects the emergence of the main branches of name studies, in roughly chronological order. The first Part focuses on name theory and outlines key issues about the role of names in language, focusing on grammar, meaning, and discourse. Parts II and III deal with the study of place-names and personal names respectively, while Part IV outlines contrasting approaches to the study of names in literature, with case studies from different languages and time periods. Part V explores the field of socio-onomastics, with chapters relating to the names of people, places, and commercial products. Part VI then examines the interdisciplinary nature of name studies, before the concluding Part presents a selection of animate and inanimate referents ranging from aircraft to animals, and explains the naming strategies adopted for them.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Carole Hough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2016-05-03
File : 801 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780191630422


Middle English Word Studies

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A bibliography of studies of individual Middle English words and groups of words offering evidence for word meanings. Although detailed and full bibliographies exist for Old English word studies, this is the first specifically on Middle English lexicography, focussing on studies of individual Middle English words and groups of words which offer evidence for word meanings: ante- and post-datings for the Oxford English Dictionary and the Middle English Dictionary, missing entries and ghost words, possible proverbs, proposals for etymologies, wordplay, punning, new readingsin manuscripts and the reinterpretations of textual cruces. It first presents an annotated bibliography arranged alphabetically by author's name and date of publication; the annotations include notes on the contents and approach of each article, cross-references to related work, and references to reviews. Two indexes follow, the Index of Words, an alphabetical listing of words that have attracted significant discussion with references to the author(s), publication date and notes of pages on which the words are discussed; and an Index of Authors. The introductory section offers critical analyses of the word studies. Professor JANE ROBERTS and Dr LOUISE SYLVESTER teach atKing's College London.

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Genre : Foreign Language Study
Author : Louise Sylvester
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Release : 2000
File : 344 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0859916065


Old And Middle English Language Studies

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Since the publication of Kennedy's monumental Bibliography of Writings on the English Language, no bibliography has systematically surveyed the Old and Middle English scholarship accumulated over the past 60 years. Tajima's work aims to meet the need for an updated bibliography of Old and Middle English language studies; it lists books, monographs, dissertations, articles, notes, and reviews on Old and Middle English language. The items have been listed into fourteen fairly broad categories: (1) Bibliographies, (2) Dictionaries, glossaries and concordances, (3) Histories of the English language, (4) Grammars (historical, Old English and Middle English), (5) General and miscellaneous studies, (6) Language of individual authors or works, (7) Orthography and punctuation, (8) Phonology and phonetics, (9) Morphology, (10) Syntax, (11) Lexicology, lexicography and word-formation, (12) Onomastics, (13) Dialectology, (14) Stylistics.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Release : 1988-01-01
File : 427 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789027278708


The Unstable Manifold

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Mae pump ffrind 12-13 oed wedi cael eu noddi i aros mewn hen blasdy am un noson. Oes ¿na ysbryd yn cuddio yno?Five friends have been sponsored to spend the night in a haunted mansion.

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Genre : Determinism (Philosophy)
Author : Karin Hansson
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Release : 1996
File : 156 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0862384206


Words Names And History

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Cecily Clark (1926-1992) is familiar to medievalists as editor of the Peterborough Chronicle; others will know her work in Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Middle English studies, in particular her extensive researches in medieval English onomastics. She lectured at the universities of London, Edinburgh and Aberdeen before settling in Cambridge as Research Fellow of, successively, Newnham College and Clare Hall. She was past joint editor of Nomina, a Council member of the English Place-Name Society, and a member of the International Committee of Onomastic Sciences.

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Genre : English language
Author : Cecily Clark
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Release : 1995
File : 488 Pages
ISBN-13 : 085991402X


Medieval English Studies Past And Present

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Genre : Anglicists
Author : Akio Oizumi
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Release : 1990
File : 328 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015019448623


The Grammar Of Names In Anglo Saxon England

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This book examines personal names, including given and acquired (or nick-) names, and how they were used in Anglo-Saxon England. It discusses their etymologies, semantics, and grammatical behaviour, and considers their evolving place in Anglo-Saxon history and culture. From that culture survive thousands of names on coins, in manuscripts, on stone and other inscriptions. Names are important and their absence a stigma (Grendel's parents have no names); they may have particular functions in ritual and magic; they mark individuals, generally people but also beings with close human contact such as dogs, cats, birds, and horses; and they may provide indications of rank and gender. Dr Colman explores the place of names within the structure of Old English, their derivation, formation, and other linguistic behaviour, and compares them with the products of other Germanic (e.g., Present-day German) and non-Germanic (e.g., Ancient and Present-day Greek) naming systems. Old English personal names typically followed the Germanic system of elements based on common words like leof (adjective 'beloved') and wulf (noun 'wolf'), which give Leofa and Wulf, and often combined as in Wulfraed, (ræd noun, 'advice, counsel') or as in Leofing (with the diminutive suffix -ing). The author looks at the combinatorial and sequencing possibilities of these elements in name formation, and assesses the extent to which, in origin, names may be selected to express qualities manifested by, or expected in, an individual. She examines their different modes of inflection and the variable behaviour of names classified as masculine or feminine. The results of her wide-ranging investigation are provocative and stimulating.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Fran Colman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release : 2014-07-24
File : 323 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780191005183


The New Cambridge Bibliography Of English Literature

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Genre : English literature
Author : George Watson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Release : 1974
File : 1296 Pages
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