• Some editions of The Bruce. A comparative account 

      López Couso, M. José; Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1994)
      [Abstract] The Bruce by John Barbour has been traditionally regarded as the landmark of Scottish literature. Several editions of the work have been made since the earliest printed version of the late 16th or the first years ...
    • Language Contact and Language Change: The Danes in England 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 1995)
      [Abstract]The influence of the Scandinavian dialects on English has been often studied though no significant progress seems to have been achieved. The major aim of this paper is to offer a methodological approach which can ...
    • A study of finite complementation in late Fourteenth Century English 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Universidade de Vigo, 1997)
      [Resumen] Este artículo pretende profundizar en el análisis de los modelos de complementación finita (conteniendo formas verbales marcadas) existentes en Inglés Medio y cotejarlos con los períodos lingüísticos inmediatamente ...
    • The Parlement of the Thre Ages: some notes on the place of origin of one of its manuscripts 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Alfaya Lamas, Elena (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2001)
      [Abstract] The central goal of the present study is to explore the geographical origins of T, one of the manuscripts of the medieval alliterative poem. The Parlement of the Thre Ages (British Museum, MS 31042). For ...
    • Adjectival forms in Middle English: syntactic and semantic implications. 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2002)
      [Abstract] Our main purpose in this paper is to look into the place of adjectives in a particular period in the history of English as regards their position in the Noun Phrase and whether such position may somehow alter ...
    • El mito vikingo: el escandinavo como el "otro" en la Europa medieval 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de La Laguna, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2002)
      [Resumen]El presente trabajo ofrece una visión de los escandinavos bien diferente de la que ha llegado al resto de los europeos (y, por ende, de la Humanidad) desde la Edad Media. Habida cuenta que esa información vino ...
    • The Adjective in English: The "French type" and its place in the History of Language 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Walter Mouton de Gruyter, 2002)
      [Abstract] Before proceeding to the analysis of the situation of attributive adjectives in earlier stages of the language I will be concerned with the characteristics of the category "adjective" in present day English and ...
    • Thirteen paston letters in search of a standard 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Montoya Reyes, Ana (Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2003)
      [Abstract] The present paper proposes an approach to the development of the so-called Standard English from a morphological perspective. To this end, we present the concept of Standard in order to show the different ...
    • Scandinavians and Anglo-Saxons: Lexical Substitution and Lexical Change in English 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Universitat Jaume I, 2004)
      [Abstract]Though this may not be a very fortunate reivindication these days, it is clear that the study of the History of English enables us to understand present-day phenomena. History in general and the history of ...
    • Medicine, Astronomy, affixes and others: an account of verb formation in some Early Scientific works 

      Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2006)
      [Abstract]The patterns of derivational morphology found in Middle English in general should, theoretically, coincide with those found in an emerging functional variety of English from the same period (scientific writing). ...
    • Lop-webbe and henne cresse: morphological aspects of the scientific register in late Middle English 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (De Gruyter, 2006)
      [Abstract]The aim of the present paper is to present an approach to the vernacularisation of English scientific texts with special attention to lexicon. Word-formation is a better indicator than other linguistic levels ...
    • The Coruña Corpus Tool 

      Parapar, Javier; Moskowich, Isabel (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2007)
      [Abstracts] The Coruña Corpus of scientific writing will be used for the diachronic study of scientific discourse from most linguistic levels and thereby contribute to the study of the historical development of English. ...
    • Different Paths for Words and Money: The Semantic Field of Commerce and Finance in Middle English 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (Rodopi, 2007)
      [Abstract] Our aim in this paper is to examine the relationship between society and language change. Development such as the discovery of new territories and the introduction of new and exotic products and practices are ...
    • Historia, arte y peregrinación en el itinerario irlandés a Compostela 

      Alfaya Lamas, Elena (2009)
      [Resumen] Este trabajo se acerca al Camino de Santiago que realizaban los peregrinos que llegaban a Galicia a través del mar desde los puertos del Báltico, Países Bajos, Países Escandinavos, norte de Francia, y sobre ...
    • The limits of my language are the limits of my world: The Scientific Lexicon from 1350 to 1640 

      Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Slovak Association for the Study of English (SKASE), 2009)
      [Abstract] A diachronic compilation of different types of texts such as the Helsinki Corpus provides adequate material for a preliminary approach to the degree of diffusion of scientific/technical vocabulary (mainly nouns). ...
    • “Of medicines sedatives”: some notes on adhective position 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Faculty of English. Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), 2009)
      The position of adjectives in the English Noun Phrase is regarded as something quite fixed and pertaining to the level of syntax rather than to any other. In previous studies (Moskowich 2002; Moskowich – Crespo 2002; ...
    • CETA in the context of the Coruña Corpus 

      Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Oxford University Press, 2010)
      [Abstract] The Coruña Corpus (CC): a Collection of Samples for the Historical Study of English Scientific Writing is a project on which the MUSTE group has been working since 2003 in the University of A Coruña (Spain). It ...
    • Morphologically complex nouns in english scientific: texts after empiricism 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Bern Open Publishing, 2010)
      [Abstract] The present paper aims at providing a new viewpoint on the development of scientific writing as regards its lexicon following the introduction of the scientific method in England. Although it will not provide ...
    • The Golden Rule of Divine Philosophy exemplified in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2011)
      [Abstract] The present paper aims at presenting a new sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The corpus is a compilation of scientific texts published between 1700 and 1900 and has been compiled by ...
    • Patterns of english scientific writing in the 18th Century: adjectives and other Building-blocks 

      Moskowich, Isabel (John Benjamins, 2012)
      [Abstract] It is often claimed that the written register tends to reflect a nominal style, in which nouns, phrases and adjectives abound, whereas a verbal style, containing higher proportions of verbs, complement clauses ...