This volume is the second in Ringe’s Linguistic history of English, picking up where the previous book, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (Ringe 2006), left off. It covers the time period from the break-up of Proto-Germanic until c. 900 ce, thus ending roughly in the middle of the Old English (OE) period as traditionally conceived. The scope of this monumental project will be apparent ...

Due to the high costs and strategic importance of expatriate assignments, performance management (EPM) plays an increasingly important role for multinational enterprises (MNEs). However, research on EPM is still in its infancy. Drawing from convergence/divergence debate international human resource management, this study investigates compares strategies practices across MNEs three different cou...

Kuhn (1933) proposed that the evolution of Germanic syntax began with a need to restore acceptable sentence rhythm after shift fixed initial stress. found support for his hypothesis in ‘laws’ word placement applied alliterative poetry but not prose. assumed laws were syntactic rules Proto-Germanic maintained by conservative poets. Here I argue Kuhn's Laws poetic meter obscured basic order. Adop...

Abstract This study deals with folkloric research object within Germanic and Russian Formalism, it shows why folklore ornament have become an ideal of the European formalist current in Slavic areas.

The English word "health" comes from the Old English word hale, meaning "wholeness, a state of being and feeling whole, sound or well" [1]. Hale comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "kailo", meaning "whole, uninjured, of good omen". Kailo comes from the Proto-Germanic root "khalbas", meaning "something (un)divided". [...].

The German Grammar group develops a fully formalized and computer-processable set of grammars that share a set of constraints, that is, they have a common core (see also Müller, 2013 for an overview). Some very general con-straints hold for all grammars, some for subgroups of languages. Currently we work on: 1. German (Germanic, SFB 632, A6, Müller, 2007; Müller and Ørsnes, 2011), 2. Danish (Ge...