Download or read book The Syntax of Old Norse written by Jan Terje Faarlund and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first account of Old Norse syntax for almost a hundred years and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. The language of the Vikings and of the Old Icelandic sagas is the best documented medieval Germanic language and the author is able to present a comprehensive analysis of its syntax and overviews of its phonology and morphology. He supports his analyses with examples taken from Norwegian and Icelandic manuscript editions. Professor Faarlund's approach is descriptive, in a generative framework with a minimum of technical detail. He includes a complete bibliography of Old Norse syntax. The book is intended for advanced students and scholars of historical linguistics, Germanic and Scandinavian languages, Norse philology, and all others with a serious interest in Nordic languages, civilizations, and history.
Download or read book The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English written by Marian C. Bean and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1983 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major focus of this book involves the testing of theories of word order change with data on change in Old English. The data are drawn from such sources as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and from the work of other scholars in Old English and historical linguistics. The book provides support for the ideas of earlier linguists such as Sapir, and will represent a major study for those working in Old English and historical linguistics. Contents: Introduction; Natural Word Order Types and Natural Word Order Change; Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic Word Order Patterns; Order of Major Elements in Main Clauses in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; Word Order Patterns in Conjunct, Relative and Subordinate Clauses; Further Studies in Old English Word Order; Conclusions.^R
Download or read book The Primitive Teutonic Order of Words written by George Harley McKnight and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Order of Words in Old Norse Prose written by Ludwig Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Order of Words in Old Norse Prose is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Download or read book Word Order and Phrase Structure in Gothic written by Gisella Ferraresi and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims at providing a precise description of part of the Gothic syntax in the context of a formal theory of syntax. The following questions are addressed: To what extent can Gothic - despite its limited corpus - be used as data material? Further, which of the ascertained syntactic characteristics does Gothic have in common with other old Indo-European languages? Which of these features can be characterized as typically Germanic? It is shown that - despite a certain Greek influence - the Gothic Bible is indeed a rich source of data which can with some certainty be regarded as typically Gothic. Phenomena concerning the left periphery like personal pronouns, topicalization, left-dislocation and discourse particles are described and discussed within the generative framework, with additions from pragmatic and cognitive linguistics for those issues where syntax seems to be inadequate to cover the whole range of the phenomena concerned. The readership aimed at is that of linguists and philologists, and of scholars interested in the interrelation between both disciplines.
Download or read book Humanistic Studies The syntax of the genitive case of the Lindisfarne gospels A history of Scandinavian studies in American universities The divisions in the plays of Plautus and Terence Studies on Leopardi Studies on the Athena Parthenos of Pheidias An analysis of the interpretations of the Finnsburg documents Gottfried Keller s attitude toward literary criticism and theory written by University of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Icelandic English Dictionary written by Richard Cleasby and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Syntax of the Genitive Case in the Lindisfarne Gospels written by Christian Emil Bale and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in English Syntax written by Charles Alphonso Smith and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humanistic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse written by Roberta Frank and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet’s workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets. This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a single community of taste, a traditional stylistic ecology that did serious political and historical work. Each chapter seeks the codes of a now-extinct verse technique. The first explores the underlying architecture of the two poetries, their irregularities of pace, startling formal conventions, and tight verbal detail work. The passage of time has worn away most of the circumstantial details that literary scholars in later periods take for granted, but the public relations savvy and aural and syntactic signals of early northern verse remain to some extent retrievable and relatable, an etiquette prized and presumably understood by its audiences. The second and longest chapter investigates the techniques used by early northern poets to retrieve and organize the symmetries of language. It illustrates how supererogatory alliteration and rhyme functioned as aural punctuation, marking off structural units and highlighting key moments in the texts. The third and final chapter describes the extent to which both corpora reveled in negations, litotes, indirection, and down-toners, modes that forced audiences to read between half-lines, to hear what was not said. By decluttering and stripping away excess, by drawing words through a tight mesh of meter, alliteration, and rhyme, the early northern poet filtered out dross and stitched together a poetics of stark contrasts and forebodings. Poets and lovers of poetry of all periods and places will find much to enjoy here. So will students in Old English and Old Norse courses.
Download or read book A New Introduction to Old Norse Reader written by Michael P. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Scandinavian Studies in American Universities written by George Tobias Flom and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics written by Margaret Clunies Ross and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia. This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were a conspicuous feature of medieval intellectual life in Iceland and the Orkneys from the mid-twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. Its aim is to give a clear description of the rich poetic tradition of early Scandinavia, particularly in Iceland, where it reached its zenith, and to demonstrate the social contextsthat favoured poetic composition, from the oral societies of the early Viking Age in Norway and its colonies to the devout compositions of literate Christian clerics in fourteenth-century Iceland. The author analyses the two dominant poetic modes, eddic and skaldic, giving fresh examples of their various styles and subjects; looks at the prose contexts in which most Old Norse poetry has been preserved; and discusses problems of interpretation thatarise because of the poetry's mode of transmission. She is concerned throughout to link indigenous theory with practice, beginning with the pre-Christian ideology of poets as favoured by the god ódinn and concluding with the Christian notion that a plain style best conveys the poet's message. Margaret Clunies Ross is McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney.
Download or read book Papers from the 4th International Conference on Historical Linguistics written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26 30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in historical linguistics, including topics that are only recently considered relevant, such as acquisition, structure, and language use.
Download or read book Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics Stanford March 26 30 1979 written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26–30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in historical linguistics, including topics that are only recently considered relevant, such as acquisition, structure, and language use.
Download or read book Modern Icelandic Syntax written by Joan Maling and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of Icelandic syntax contains new analyses of word order and long-distance reflexivization, detailed studies of case-marking, and the first systematic description of the -st middles. It presents a complete picture of modern Icelandic syntax as seen in the tradition of generative grammar, striking a good balance between theory and description.
