This volume explores how past stages of the English language are reinterpreted and recontextualized in contemporary contexts. The idea for this publication originates from a 2022 symposium held at the University of Stavanger (Norway).

This is the first complete edition of „Das Büchlein der Gesundheit“, based on Trieste, Biblioteca Civica Attilio Hortis, MS 2–25, written in a late fifteenth-century Bavarian dialect.

This Gedenkschrift celebrates the memory of Professor Hans Sauer and his passion for travelling. The contributions in this volume explore different kinds of textual and temporal travels from various linguistic, literary, and philological perspectives.

Participial prepositions and conjunctions such as considering, during, considered and except are a comparatively recent phenomenon in the history of the English language.

Based on the surviving Old English textual material, as well as on Old English dictionaries and the relevant literature, this work studies the role of preverbs (eg.

Somayeh Baeten, née Shafiei, is a German citizen born in Tehran in 1981.

This work contributes to the research in the linguistic analysis of Old English with corpus-based lexical databases.

Das vorliegende Buch beinhaltet eine kommentierte Textausgabe (inklusive einer deutschen Übersetzung) eines im 10. Jahrhundert verfassten altenglischen Medizinbuches, das aus zwei Teilen besteht: Laeceboc I und II.

Old English had a large number of plant names: more than a thousand are attested. These are listed here, including parts of plants and products of plants.

The book examines the diachronic change of time perception throughout Anglo-Saxon England, with the conversion as a turning point.

Knowledge about one’s linguistic background, especially when it is different from mainstream varieties, provides a basis for identity and self.

Die Murbacher Hymnen, eine Sammlung von 27 lateinischen Hymnen mit einer (wohl bald nach 800 eingetragenen) vollständigen althochdeutschen Interlinearversion, gehören zu den frühesten und wichtigsten Denkmälern der althochdeutschen Sprache und Literatur.

World literature is often transposed onto screen and these new interpretations of literary works mostly change several features.

Foreign accents in fiction are a common stylistic instrument of marking a character as the ‘Other’ and conveying national stereotypes in literature.

Why do Modern English modal auxiliaries ought to, should, and must, meaning OBLIGATION, occur in the present tense, yet their forms are in the preterite? Why does to accompany ought?

Adjectives can be used as nouns in English as well as in German.