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Renewal of Grammatical Forms in the History of English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In the development of English, new relative pronouns (whwords) were introduced, while the relative pronouns used in Old English (se/seþe) underwent various restrictions of morphological nature (case, gender and ... -
The Conventionalization of the Passive in Late Modern Scientific English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper is part of a larger project in which I seek to find out the reasons behind the radical decrease in the use of passives in Present-day English scientific discourse. After discarding a number of linguistic ... -
Logical Relations between Necessity and Possibility: Evidence from Old and Middle English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The definition and classification of modality has been paid much attention in the literature (Lyons 1977, Palmer 1986, Coates 1983, Sweetser 1990, Bybee et al. 1994, etc.) and, although scholars do not agree as ... -
Castle Rackrent y sus paratextos en el siglo XX: el caso alemán y francés
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] Castle Rackrent (1800), de la angloirlandesa Maria Edgeworth, ha despertado el interés de la crítica desde ángulos muy diversos, pero una parcela que queda por explorar es la de su recepción en otras culturas. ... -
Born in the Streets: Violence, Gangsterism and Power in Gangs of New York
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] When in 1928 Herbert Asbury published his acclaimed book Gangs of New York, he presented a panoramic and retrospective view of the most significant gangs that prowled the Five Point’s area. His gangsters were ...