This is an article included in Langauge Contact and Variation in the History of English, edited by M. Uchida, Y. Iyeiri and L. Schourup. It explores the word doubt, both nominal and verbal, in seven published books by Sir Thomas More.
This paper explores the complementation patterns of the verb forbid in contemporary English. Based on the analysis of BAWE and the 2001 issues of two British newspapers, it demonstrates to what extent the –ing construction has been established with this verb in today’s English.
This is a short paper on Joseph Power’s note attached to Earl Rivers’s English Translation of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers (British Library). It includes the transcription of the text.
This short paper makes a concise survey of previous research into Earl Rivers’s English translation of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers and provides our transcription of the notes attached to: one of the John Rylands copies of the Dictes and MS Additional 22718, British Library.
This paper explores various negative constructions in the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English (CSPAE) with a particular focus on their different behaviours in the four settings: White House, Faculty meetings, committee of mathematics and committee of reading.