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    Middle English lyrics : authoritative texts and historical backgrounds perspectives on six poems /

    Published 1974
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    The history of English : an introduction / by Gramley, Stephan, 1943-

    Published 2019
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    The origins and development of the English language / by Algeo, John

    Published 2014
    Table of Contents: “…For Further Reading -- 6. THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD (1100-1500). Some Key Events in the Middle English Period. …”
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    Borrowed words : a history of loanwords in English / by Durkin, Philip

    Published 2014
    Table of Contents: “…Introducing concepts -- Introducing the data -- Historical and cultural background to c.1150 -- Very early borrowings into Germanic -- Old English in contact with Celtic -- An overview of Latin loanwords in Old English -- Interrogating the data from chapter 6 -- Methodologies : sound change; word geography; loanwords versus semantic borrowing -- Introduction to Scandinavian loanwords in English -- Identifying Scandinavian borrowings and assessing their impact -- Exploring the contact situation and identifying loans -- Quantifying French and Latin contributions to Middle English -- Example passages from English and multilingual texts -- Borrowing from Latin and French after 1500 -- Loanwords from other languages : test cases -- Long-term effects of loanwords on the shape of the English Lexicon -- General conclusions and pointers for futher investigation.…”
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    Explorations in English historical syntax /

    Published 2018
    Table of Contents: “…Exploring English historical syntax / Hubert Cuyckens -- "Permissive" subjects and the decline of adverbial linking in the history of English / Bettelou Los -- Cognate noun constructions in Early Modern English: The case of Tyndale's New Testament / Nikolaos Lavidas -- On the differential evolution of simple and complex object constructions in English / Günter Rohdenburg -- Finite causative complements in Middle English / Brian Lowrey -- Causative make and its infinitival complements in Early Modern English / Yoko Iyeiri -- Semantic and lexical shifts with the "into-causative" construction in American English / Mark Davies and Jong-Bok Kim -- Free adjuncts in Late Modern English: A corpus-based study / Carla Bouzada Jabois -- Complexity and genre distribution of left-dislocated strings after the fixation of SVO syntax / David Tizón-Couto -- Why Scotsmen will drown and shall not be saved: The historical development of will and shall in Older Scots / Christine Elsweiler -- A study of Old English dugan: Its potential for auxiliation / Kousuke Kaita -- Sequentiality and the emergence of new constructions: That's the bottom line is (that) in American English / Reijirou Shibasaki.…”
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    Southern Folklore Quarterly /

    Published 1937
    Table of Contents: “…Lewis and John Speirs / Francis Lee Utley -- Forgotten Metaphor in Three Popular Children's Rhymes / Beryl Rowland -- Some Minor Genres of American Folklore / Alan Dundes -- A Middle English Poem on the Nine Virtues / Robert H. Bowers -- The Jewish Joke: The Problem of Definition / Heda Jason -- On Identification and Negro Tricksters / Bill R. …”
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