scholarly journals Prominence matching in english songs : a historical perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Proto
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Lexical Stress ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
Linguistic Stress ◽  
Iambic Pentameter

La poesía métrica es la fuente primaria de evidencia lingüística para la reconstrucción del sistema de acentuación de una lengua muerta, y en particular la métrica que controla la coincidencia o ajuste entre acento lingüístico y posiciones fuertes. para el inglés medio, la distribución del acento léxico a través de los esquemas débil/fuerte del pentámetro yámbico, desde chaucer hasta shakespeare, ha ofrecido información importante para el análisis lingüístico. además de la poesía hablada, las canciones proveen otro tipo de poesía métrica presente en este periodo que, sin embargo, aún no ha sido explotado como fuente de evidencia métrica o lingüística. el presente trabajo intenta contribuir a llenar este vacío a través del estudio diacrónico del desajuste prominente.The primary source of linguistic evidence in reconstructing stress systems is provided by metered poetry, particularly by meters that control the matching of the linguistic stress to metrical strong positions. For middle english, the distribution of lexical stress across the weak/strong patterns of iambic pentameter, from chaucer to shakespeare, has provided important clues for linguistic analysis. in addition to spoken poetry, songs provide another type of metered poetry from that period. however, they have not been exploited as a source of metrical or linguistic evidence. the present paper takes a tentative step towards filling this gap, by focusing on a diachronic study of prominence mismatching.

The Languages of the northern sudan: an Historical perspective

1966 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce G. Trigger
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
The Stability

Various theories have been proposed concerning the homeland of the Nubian languages. Current historical and linguistic evidence suggests that it was in Kordofan or Darfur and that Nubian first entered the middle reaches of the Nile between A.D. 200 and 500. There it replaced Meroitic, which appears to have been spoken in the area for a long time. Meroitic may, but has not yet been proved to be a language of the Eastern Sudanic group. If so, the persistence of many cultural traits in the Sudan may be correlated with the stability of the Eastern Sudanic-speakers in the same area.

A Systematic Re-evaluation of the Sources of Old Norse Astronomy

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 and 2) ◽  
pp. 119-130
Author(s):  
Christian Etheridge
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
First Century ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Tripartite Model ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Secondary Material ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Linguistic Evidence

The field of Old Norse astronomy is in a very fragmented state. There is no primary source that describes all the heavenly bodies and constellations known to the Old Norse culture. Instead the researcher must go to a wide variety of sources, which sometimes only convey snippets of information. These sources range from Eddic poems to tales of early Icelandic astronomers and through to linguistic evidence, archaeology and folklore. The secondary material on these sources is also fragmented, since from the early twentieth century there have only been a few attempts at an overall grand narrative. In this paper a new approach is proposed to collecting and assessing this data. By using multi-disciplinary scholarship and a tripartite model, this paper will show how a new assessment of Old Norse astronomy can be put into practice for the twenty-first century.

On the inherent semantic meaning of double object Latinate verbs in English in modern and historical perspective *

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Sówka-Pietraszewska
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle English ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
Double Object ◽  
Object Construction ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Prepositional Object ◽  
The One

Abstract This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of their inherent semantic meaning in the Late Middle English and early Modern English periods, hence in the time-span when they were borrowed into English. The main aim of this paper is to show that although Latinate verbs occur in a construction with what seems to be an allative preposition, not all of them lexicalize movement in the inherent meanings. In contrast, some Latinate verbs lexicalize only a caused possession. What is more, this paper shows that the caused possession Latinate verbs select a different variant of prepositional object construction than the one selected by Latinate verbs lexicalizing movement.

Reconstructing ‘John Lelamour’s’ Herbal: The Linguistic Evidence

2017 ◽  
Vol 135 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-699
Author(s):  
David Moreno Olalla
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Middle English ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Linguistic Approach

AbstractTwenty years ago, George R. Keiser showed that the mutilated last quire of Lincoln Cathedral, Dean and Chapter Library, MS 91 had once contained a herbal written in Middle English. He discovered moreover that passages parallel to those reconstructable for the Lincoln manuscript appear in other texts, including an important work called John Lelamour’s Herbal after a name mentioned in its explicit, and concluded that Lelamour, an otherwise unknown fourteenth-century schoolmaster from Hereford, was the author of the original treatise that Thornton and other scribes used for the composition of their own herbals. The present article will present ample evidence which will demonstrate that Keiser’s hypothesis on a Herefordian pedigree for this textual family cannot be sustained any longer, and that the origins of this textual family should in fact be sought not too far from Scotland. A linguistic approach based on a collection of scribal modifications, both unconscious and conscious ones (i. e. copy mistakes and changes made on purpose by the several copyists), will be used for the task. This will reveal how linguistic variation between the several manuscripts can be profitably used to reconstruct the dialect of the original translation, which will here consequently be named Northern Middle English Translation of Macer Floridus’s De Viribus Herbarum (or Northern Macer for short).

On the origin of auxiliary do

1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Aspect Marker ◽  
Auxiliary Verb

Prevailing theories link the English periphrastic auxiliary verb do historically with Old and Middle English causative do. I argue that these and other accounts are inconsistent with modern dialect evidence and an analysis of the historical record suggested by that evidence. The primary source of periphrastic do was a habitual aspect marker which itself arose from the reinterpretation of bare object nominalizations as infinitive verbs.1

scholarly journals Hierophanies in the Vinland Sagas: Images of a New World

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 and 2) ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
Aidan Foster
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
First Century ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Tripartite Model ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Secondary Material ◽  
Linguistic Evidence

The field of Old Norse astronomy is in a very fragmented state. There is no primary source that describes all the heavenly bodies and constellations known to the Old Norse culture. Instead the researcher must go to a wide variety of sources, which sometimes only convey snippets of information. These sources range from Eddic poems to tales of early Icelandic astronomers and through to linguistic evidence, archaeology and folklore. The secondary material on these sources is also fragmented, since from the early twentieth century there have only been a few attempts at an overall grand narrative. In this paper a new approach is proposed to collecting and assessing this data. By using multi-disciplinary scholarship and a tripartite model, this paper will show how a new assessment of Old Norse astronomy can be put into practice for the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Pencemaran Nama Baik dalam Perspektif Linguistik Forensik

Kelasa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasnawati Nasution
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Linguistic Evidence

This paper examines two uploads on social media whose alleged sentences contain elements of defamation. The method used in this study is qualitative, i.e., describing data to determine the elements that can defame someone. Determination of these elements requires forensic linguistic analysis that is using linguistic evidence in law enforcement efforts. This evidence can be analyzed using lexical, grammatical and pragmatic semantic studies that are part of forensic linguistic studies. Based on the analysis, it can be concluded that from the lexical semantic perspective, the word used in the uploaded sentence has a negative denotation meaning. Based on the grammatical semantic analysis the sentence means demeaning a group of people. Pragmatically, not being said by the uploader is an expressive illocutionary act, which is an expression of disappointment and anger. In addition, the sentence uploaded to the account is also provocative, namely inviting the public to follow the uploader's opinion. Expressive illocutionary acts lead to acts of perlocution on the speech partners mentioned in the sentence. The act of occlusion is in the form of anger from community groups or individuals referred to in uploads. AbstrakMakalah ini mengkaji dua unggahan di media sosial yang diduga kalimatnya mengandung unsur pencemaran nama baik.  Metode yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah kualitatif, yakni mendekripsikan data untuk menentukan unsur-unsur yang dapat mencemarkan nama baik seseorang. Penentuan unsur tersebut memerlukan analisis linguisik forensik yakni menggunakan bukti kebahasaan dalam upaya penegakan hukum. Bukti tersebut dapat dianalisis dengan menggunakan kajian semantik leksikal, semantik gramatikal, dan pragmatik yang merupakan bagian dari kajian linguistik forensik. Berdasarkan analisis yang dilakukan diperoleh kesimpulan bahwa dari sudut pandang semantik leksikal, kata yang digunakan pada kalimat yang diunggah tersebut memiliki makna denotasi yang negatif. Berdasarkan analisis semantik gramatikal kalimat tersebut bermakna merendahkan sekelompok masyarakat. Secara pragmatik, tidak tutur yang dilakukan oleh penggunggah adalah tindak ilokusi ekspresif, yakni ekspresi kekecewaan dan kemarahan. Selain itu, kalimat yang diunggah pada akun tersebut juga bersifat provokatif, yakni mengajak masyarakat mengikuti pendapat si pengunggah.  Tindak ilokusi ekspresif menimbulkan tindak perlokusi pada mitra tutur yang disebut dalam kalimat tersebut. Tindak perlokusi itu berupa kemarahan kelompok masyarakat atau individu yang disebut di dalam unggahan.

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