Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories
Edited by Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 138] 2013. vi, 318 pp.
Leena Kahlas-Tarkka
List of John Benjamins publications for which Leena Kahlas-Tarkka plays a role.
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Subjects Comparative linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Articles
2013 Introduction Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories, Diewald, Gabriele, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2011 William Lambarde and Thomas Milles in search of the golden past Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 233–248 | Article
This article deals mainly with the English Catalogue of Honor (1610) and the Latin Nobilitas Politica vel Civilis (1608), both by Thomas Milles, and the Anglo-Saxon Geþyncðo text that appears in these works. The article focuses on the rise of the 16th-century interest in Anglo-Saxon culture and… read more
2007 The sullen and the talkative: Discourse strategies in the Salem examinations Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
The purpose of this paper is to describe the discourse strategies of the defendants of the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692. Evidence is derived from the original documents now being re-edited by an international team. A framework for the discussion is provided by politeness theory, although it… read more
1994 What does the Jungle of Middle English Manuscripts Tell Us? On ME words for ‘every’ and ‘each’ with special reference to their many variants English Historical Linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992, Fernández, Francisco, Miguel Fuster Márquez and Juan Jose Calvo (eds.), pp. 305 ff. | Article