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| Description | Metaphors of Travel in English Spiritual Language | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| To what extent, and in what contexts, have journey metaphors been used in English spiritual language and literature? How has metaphorical extension affected the semantic development of this category? |
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| Description | English extender tags & diachronic phraseology | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Funded by the Finnish Academy, I'm studying English extender tags ("and such-like", "et cetera") in the history of English. Fixed forms, variant forms, their functions and distribution. |
| Historical Linguistics
Phraseology
Pragmatics
Semantics
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| Description | A new class of verbs taking that-clause complement | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Sketch of possible new investigation. |
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Corpus
current change
Historical Linguistics
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| Description | Words derived from Old Norse in the Gawain-poet | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| A detailed etymological survey of the words in the works of the Gawain-poet variously described by scholars as having been loaned or influenced by the early Scandinavian languages. |
| Historical Linguistics
Lexicography
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| Description | The cluster fn/mn in Old English | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| A survey of the variant spellings of the OE consonant cluster(s) traditionally interpreted as deriving from assimilation of PGmc /bn/. |
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| Description | Historical sociolinguistics: data, models, methods | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| See my homepage (link below) and the homepage of the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English at:
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/about/index.html |
| Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | Syntax and information structure | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| I am studying the loss of information-structural options after the loss of verb-second in English, and a possible connection with the rise of stressed-focus clefts, rare passives, and the progressive. |
| Historical Linguistics
Information Structure
Syntax
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| Description | Verbs of Emotion and Impersonals in OE and ME | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| This PhD project of mine is concerned with the links between syntax and semantics of OE and ME verbs of emotion, which often, but not always, occurred in impersonal constructions. |
| Historical Linguistics
Lexicography
Linguistics & Literature
Semantics
Syntax
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| Description | Historical Thesaurus of English | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Examination of the development of the vocabulary of English in conceptual categories from Old English onwards |
| Historical Linguistics
Lexicography
Semantics
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| Description | Variation and change in morphological productivity | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| I study sociolinguistic variation and change in the morphological productivity of certain derivational affixes from EModE to PDE; I am also developing corpus linguistic tools and methods for this. |
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Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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