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Adverbials and inversion in early english scientific writing
(2015-11-13)From a historical perspective, the English language shifted from being basically verb final in the Old English period (Traugott 1992: 274) to verb non-final from the Middle English period onwards (Fischer 1992: 371), that ... -
Assessing the Provenance of Constantinus Afrianus' Venerabilis Anatomia in London, MS Wellcome 290 (ff. 1r-41v)
(2014-10-03)MS Wellcome 290 is housed in the Wellcome Library in London. Referenced MS Wellcome 290, it is entitled Pseudo-Galen, Claudius, 131 – 201, and it comprises 56 folios of which, the last three, are blank (Moorat 1962: 186). ... -
By way of vs. by means of: on the Expression of Instrumentality in Middle English and Early Modern English
(2016-04-21)Grammaticalization is defined as “a process whereby a lexical item, with full referential meaning, develops grammatical meaning” (Fischer and Rosenbach 2000: 2; see also Hopper 1991; Diewald and Wischer 2002). According ... -
Early modern english scientific text types: different levels of linguistic complexity?
(2017-06-05)Complexity was first defined by Simon as hierarchies of different elements originating from simplicity (1962: 468). In Linguistics, Givon (2009) has analysed syntactic complexity from the point of view of language typology; ... -
Early Modern English Scientific Text Types: Edition and Assessment of Linguistic Complexity in the Texts of MS Hunter 135 (ff. 34r–121v)
(UMA Editorial, 2017-09)La presente tesis doctoral pretende el estudio del discurso médico en lengua inglesa en el período moderno-temprano (1500-1700), teniendo como objetivo la edición, la compilación de un corpus y el análisis de la complejidad ... -
Finite Complementation in Early English Medical Writing: A case Study of Syntactic Constructions in Competition
Romero-Barranco, Jesús; Calle-Martín, Javier
(2014-10-03)
The present paper discusses the distribution of complement clauses in a corpus of early English medical writing, considering whether the object is introduced by the complementizer that (I have already promised that […]) ... -
‘I got into the room by means of a picklock key and found him’ Complex Prepositions in Early Modern English
Romero-Barranco, Jesús; Calle-Martín, Javier (2016-11-02)
English complex prepositions can be subdivided into two-word and three-word sequences, the former containing an adverb, adjective or conjunction together with a simple preposition (i.e. instead ADV of PREP ); and the latter ... -
‘I make them drink heartily of warm Water three or four Times’: Periphrastic Causative Constructions in Late Modern English Scientific Writing.
(2024)Periphrastic causative constructions or analytic causative constructions could be defined as “two-part configurations such as He makes me laugh or I had my hair cut, where a causative verb controls a non-finite complement ... -
On the Use of make to vs. make ø in early English Medical Writing
Calle-Martín, Javier; Romero-Barranco, Jesús (2014-10-23)
OBJECT INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS are the most frequent type of non-finite complement clauses, in which the object infinitive may occur either marked (+TO) e.g. to-infinitive or unmarked (-TO) e.g. bare infinitive (Fischer ... -
Punctuation in late Middle English Medical Writing: Constantinus Africanus’ Venerabilis Anatomia in London, Wellcome Library, MS Wellcome 290 (ff. 1r-41v)
(2015-05-07)Within the field of Palaeography, punctuation could be defined as the most rudimentary aspect, as it took an extremely long time to evolve. By the 13th century, the punctus and the inverted semicolon were the most widespread ... -
Punctuation Practice and Rhetorical Moves in Early English Medical Recipes
Early English medical recipes constitute a text type characterized by a fixed text structure with a series of rhetorical moves: title, ingredients, application, efficacy and practitioner’s personal experience (Romero-Barranco ... -
That-clauses: Retention and Omission of Complementizer that in some Varieties of English
Calle-Martín, Javier; Romero-Barranco, Jesús (2017-10-02)
An OBJECT CLAUSE, also sporadically referred to as a COMMENT CLAUSE (Warner 1982: 169; Huddleston & Pullum 2002: 951), is that kind of clause functioning as the direct object of the matrix verb. In English, the most common ... -
The vernacularization of non-native items in early english medical writing
(2017-04-26)Early Modern English is characterised by an extraordinary lexical growth motivated by two main linguistic processes, borrowing and word-formation (Nevalainen 1999: 332). Within affixation, prefixation grew more than ...