The English term “ordeal,” deriving from Proto-Germanic *uz-dailjam (lit. ‘that which is dealt out [by the gods]’, namely, ‘God’s judgment’), originated in the early Middle Ages (Old English ordēl) to designate an ancient Germanic mode of trial consisting of some arduous and/or injurious tests, which a person charged with guilt might be occasionally forced to undergo and whose result was believ...

Preposition Stranding (henceforth PS) is a syntactic construction that can be found across Germanic languages (Bolinger 1977, 1978). PS involves a non-canonical word order, in which a preposition and its object noun phrase (henceforth NP) are not adjacent, hence they appear to be “stranded”. PS includes three sub-types of constructions: pseudo-passives, relative clauses and wh-constructions (Ko...

We provide an overview of on-going efforts to facilitate the study of older Germanic languages currently pursued at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. We describe created resources, such as a parallel corpus of Germanic Bibles and a morphosyntactically annotated corpus of Old High German (OHG) and Old Saxon, a lexicon of OHG in XML and a multilingual etymological database. We discuss NLP...

It is generally acknowledged that Intrinsic Pitch differences are found for Germanic languages. In a previous study we could give evidence for a strong cross-linguistic difference when examining Intrinsic pitch for the Romance language Italian. To examine the possibility of a stable crosslinguistic difference, a perception experiment was designed to examine the existence of Intrinsic pitch in R...

Warren Maguire. 2017. ‘The emergence of Scots: Clues from Germanic *a reflexes’. In Cruickshank, Janet and Robert McColl Millar (eds.) 2017. Before the Storm: Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster triennial meeting, Ayr 2015. Aberdeen: Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ireland, 1-32. ISBN: 9780-9566549-4-6. The emergence of Scots: Clues fro...

The article studies the directions of transformation national legislation Ukraine in context globalization based on dialectical method. Specifically, notions “legislation” and “globalization” are analyzed; meaning concepts “national Ukraine” “legal globalization” is specified; factors which define features modern conditions established. As a result study it proved that main following: borrowing...