| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 333 pages) : illustrations |
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The Northern world ; v. 48 |
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Northern world ; v. 48.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Alaric Hall [and others] -- Anglo-Latin bilingualism before 1066 : prospects and limitations / Olga Timofeeva -- Interlinguistic communication in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum / Alaric Hall -- Quae non habet intellectum : the disappearance of fifth-foot spondees from dactylic hexameter verse / Seppo Heikkinen -- The representations of emotions connected to dreams and visions in pre-Carolingian continental and Anglo-Latin narratives / Jesse Keskiaho -- The Kirkdale dedication inscription and its Latin models: romanitas in late Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire / John Blair -- Linguistic geography, demography, and monastic community : scribal language at Bury St Edmunds / Kathryn A. Lowe -- Sense and sensibility : Old English semantics and the lexicographer's point of view / Antoinette DiPaolo Healey -- Spatial understanding of time in early Germanic cultures: the evidence of Old English time words and Norse mythology / Lilla Kopár -- The development of the basic colour terms of English / Carole P. Biggam -- The lexicon of mind and memory : mood and mind in Old and Middle English / Agnes Kiricsi -- Another subordinator, an't please you : a diachronic study of conditional and / Alexandra Fodor -- Translating Chaucer's power play into Modern English and Finnish / Mari Pakkala-Weckström |
| Summary |
The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between medieval linguistics and medieval cultural studies generally. Articles address medieval English linguistics, and the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Selections from several languages with English translations |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English philology -- Old English, ca. 450-1100.
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English philology -- Middle English, 1100-1500.
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Language and culture -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Languages in contact -- England -- History
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Latin language, Medieval and modern -- England
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Old & Middle English.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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English philology -- Middle English
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English philology -- Old English
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Language and culture
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Languages in contact
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Latin language, Medieval and modern
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Sprachkontakt
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Kulturkontakt
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England
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England
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Latein.
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Altenglisch.
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Mittelenglisch.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hall, Alaric
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Kilpiö, Matti
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| ISBN |
9789047444619 |
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9047444612 |
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128295136X |
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9781282951365 |
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