the cambridge history of warfare book review

... explore the scribal and linguistic make-up of the texts, and Mclntosh et al have therefore suggested a classification of text types in terms of the history of copying and of the different patterns of ... is itself the work of two scribes The Cotton MS of The Owl and the Nightingale is a well-known example of the latter, and in this case the place where one scribe finished and the other began ... consistently emphasised the importance of this work for linguistic theory, and has pointed out the failures of the past in the respects I have mentioned There is such a wealth of surviving material

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... manners of behaviour’ rehearses the sequence an equal temper In addition, they guide the reader through the topic-flow of the discourse, the distal deictic that marking the receding topic, the ... than Latinity that prompts the favouring of wh- over th- markers in the theory and (to a lesser degree) the stylistic practice of the time Swift commented that ‘one of the greatest difficulties ... gives the writer a means of distinguishing levels of textual or emotional distance (Huddleston 1984: 296–7) Some of these functions can be seen in the opening of Steele’s essay on The Death of a

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... The Cambridge History of the English Language is the first multivolume work to provide a full account of the history of English Its authoritative coverage extends from areas of central ... chronologically-oriented presentation of the data, surveys scholarship in the area and takes full account of the impact of developing and current linguistic theory on the interpretation of the data The chapters have ... from the Exeter Book of Anglo-Saxon poetry (Exeter D & C MS 3501, s x): The Wanderer, 76v, lines 1-33 Reproduced by kind permission of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY

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... respect is the use in Old English of periphrastic auxiliaries which are themselves in the subjunctive form. Together with the loss of the subjunctive came a grammaticalisation of the modal verbs, ... the grace of the peple... discussion of the causative nature of the Old English verb hatan, he writes, " the verb of causing predicates the accomplishment of an act that ... happened is this: on the one hand, the gradual erosion of verbal inflections made it necessary to replace the subjunctive by something more transparent; on the other, the use of periphrastic constructions

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... editor(s), an indication of the date of the manuscript(s) used (and if possible the date of the original composition (in parentheses)) and an indication of the dialect in which the manuscript(s) was ... Anticristi judges The Gospel according to Luke The Blickling Homilies The Battle of Maldon The Marvels of the East The Gospel according to Mark The Gospel according to Matthew King Alfred's ... substitution of the forms of the borrower's language into the patterns adopted According to the extent of the patterns taken over, substitution... justify his choice of English rather

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... but there has been no change in the meaning of these words, the change is rather in the. .. more prominent than others These may be so either from the frequency of occurrence of ... of pragmatic meaning in the form of knowledge of situations of use, and the sense spectra of lexemes, may be a crucial prerequisite of semantic change. 5.4.12 In the preceding discussion of the ... in the courtly love 470 Lexis and semantics theory of the Romaunt of the Rose. This powerful association of DAUNGER with the decorum of courtly love therefore evokes sense (2a) despite the

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... is most often the phonological shape rather than the semantic nature of the aorist. 608 Glossary of linguistic terms aphetic The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word, ... investigation into the linguistic situation after the loss of the Duchy of Normandy... syntax the distinction between theme and rheme is similar to the topic-comment contrast The theme constitutes ... gloss The translation of a text written usually on a word-for- word basis between the lines of the original with the glosses of each word appearing immediately above the corresponding words in the

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... scholarship devoted to them since the late 1860s first revolutionized and then became the implicit basis of much of the conventional wisdom about the history of English phonology. These sources are ... represent the spoken equivalent in the case of short vowels, they are quite inadequate in the case of long vowels, owing to the operation of the GVS while spelling was being standardised. The consonant ... convinced of the. .. with wyde opening the mouth, as when a man yauneth : The seconde, with somewhat more closing the mouth, thrusting softlye the inner part of the tongue to the

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... morphology 129 [...]... under the accent, the prince and the lowest of the people pronounce them in the same manner; but the unaccented vowels in the mouth of the former have a distinct, ... Structurally, the loss of the you/thou distinction... (187), the analogy of English accents every word of more than two syllables on the antepenultima’ Regardless of the details (there ... 3. 8 Morphology 2: the major word-classes 3. 8.1 The noun In the corresponding chapter in the Cambridge History of the English Language II, I treated the noun phrase as

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... never-ending process. The passive of the progressive (the type ? ?The house is being built’ instead of the older ? ?The house is building’) is prob- ably the most conspicuous of these. Unfortunately, ... roaring through the world till it dye ([HC] Armin 45) Cf.: (13) there are five organs or instruments of speech . . . viz. the lips, the teeth, the tongue, the roof of the mouth, and the throat ([HC] ... various theories... character of the state, or call the attention to the more actional features of the verb: 221 Matti Rissanen (185) whiche at the time of Araignement of the

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... Circles are the way whereby the poles of the Zodiacke doe moue in roundnesse from the poles of the world These doe take their names of the saide poles: and so they are called ... (1983) discusses the history of cataphoric reference of the personal pronouns. Mustanoja (1958) is a thorough survey of the rise and development of the syntactic type one the best man .The Matti Rissanen ... express- ing of some words or phrases of antient vsage, in terms more suteable to the language of the present times; and the clearer explanation of some other words and phrases that were either of doubtfull

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... the large amount of. .. (plant) Unlike ordinary compound nouns, many of these lexicalised phrases have the plural marker attached to the first noun rather than the second (bills of ... exceed the five per cent level from... the latter half of the seventeenth Marchand (1969: 439 ) attributes these changes to the popular and emotional character of these processes in the ... semi-suffixes. They all supply denominal means of adverb derivation. The form -ly is the late Middle English reduced form of -lyche, an earlier combination of the adjective suffix -ly (< OE lic) and the

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... (cf. Bald 1926). On the other hand, the weight of these criteria is diminished by the increasing convergence of Scots with English in the course of the period; and there are other factors which ... current in the city, and is called the cockney; the other at the court-end, and is called the polite pronunciation... or other of the inferiour sort’) regardless of region the old ... preferring the one or the other, or looking for compromises between them (cf the. .. desideratum in the same letter, as also a review of the loan words and the possibility of reviving old

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... maintained along the middle and lower reaches of the Volga, the Bulgars and Khazars were already there in force. The installation of northerners on the middle Dnieper towards the end of the ninth century ... encountered the tundra lands of the far north before the end of the seventeenth century. The tundra, which is the region of swamp, moss, peat, lichen, scrub and perennial grassland to the north of the ... Russia. The trade routes along the river systems between the Baltic Sea in the north and the Black and Caspian Seas to the south were important for the development of early Rus’. The soils of the...

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... to all [other] national migrations: namely from the west to the east, from the shores of the Volga to the coasts of the Pacific Ocean.’ The history of the exploration and settlement of all Siberia, ... Professor of History at the University of Sunderland and the author of Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia (1998) and The End of Imperial Russia (1997). theodore ... aspect of the survival of the Old Regime was that the dynastic state was less under the control of social elites in Russia than was the case elsewhere in the periphery, which added to the sense of...

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... public eyewitnesses of the nature of the movement and the USSR, all the more credible and authentic in the eyes of the public by virtue of their experience within and break with the party. Within ... advo- cate of appeasement in the 1930s, a philosopher of history and the prolific author of a multi-volume history of the Soviet Union, 1917–29. 93 Even in the 1930s when Carr had been sympathetic to the ... controversies of the Soviet past. The volume is not simply a history of the ethnically Russian part of the country but rather of the two great multinational states – tsarist and Soviet – as well as the...

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... 'god'. And in the development of the alphabet it was the name which determined the sound, rather than the sound which determined the name (the initial sound of the name was identical to the sound ... the meaning of morphological elements is the domain of syntax. In contrast to the forms of a language which, after all, can be described rather objectively, an analysis of the function of these ... aspect of the diphthongal system is uncertain and subject to fierce debate and the most controversial of these are discussed in Đ3.3.3 in the context of the development of the language. The situation...

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... ignore the infinitive the alternation would be the same as in drifan, despite the fact that the original post-vocalic consonant was in the case of the former *[b], in the case of the latter ... declined like word, they need not be discussed. The neuters, like the masculines, are further examples of the simplification of the declensional system. But the motivation for the shift was not ... words share. In these words this differentiating vowel is called the theme. The combination of root + theme gives us the morphological element which is called the stem. Themes in Germanic were of three...

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... whether this is a result of the Latin or of the OE; however, when the two are distinctly different, we may assume that we have fairly clear evidence of OE rather than of Latin structure. Where the ... begin as as books teach {WHom 20.3 160) and we are not at all ashamed of that, but we are ashamed of this: of beginning atonement in the way that the books teach. For further discussion of /^/-clauses ... in the normal course of events, cf. PDE be going to). One of the conditions for the extension of the scul- of obligation to prediction may have been its use in sentences such as (9) and the...

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... represents the exact words of the reported proposition, and when the subjects of the main clause and of the complement are the same. It is only occasionally absent if the complement represents the words ... Jim to paint the kitchen = 'She expected that Jim would paint the kitchen'. If the subject of the lower verb is co-referential with the subject of the higher verb, then there is no ... for-that they say these words PT they close hiera modes earan ongean 6a godcundan lare their soul's ears against that divine teaching (CP 45.337.21) But the reason they say these words is that they...

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