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. She was raised in a caring Persian family with her beloved mom, Soosan, who inspired and supported her devotedly through all stages...

This work contributes to the research in the linguistic analysis of Old English with corpus-based lexical databases. In the specific area of Old English, which presents numerous morphological variations and lacks a written standard, a...

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. It draws evidence from a variety of sources, in particular from a close reading of Bede’s...

Knowledge about one’s linguistic background, especially when it is different from mainstream varieties, provides a basis for identity and self. Ancestral values can be upheld, celebrated, and rooted further in the consciousness of its speakers.

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. This study investigates in a qualitative and quantitative analysis the changes which were made to the Anglo-Saxon...

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? One of the solutions to...

Adjectives can be used as nouns in English as well as in German. In Modern German, however, they can assume a greater variety of forms than is possible in Modern English, partly as a result...