LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF UNDERSTATEMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH by V. G. Ivanova

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Modern English Language Didactics: Aspects of Dialectics and Analisis by E. V. Yakovleva, R. V. Agadzhanyan

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Introduction: Genre Trouble in Early Modern English Writing (1500-1800) by Emma Bartel, Katie Ebner-Landy

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THE MATRIX OF COGNITIVE FILTERS AS A TOOL FOR THE ANALYSIS OF LINGUOCREATEMES IN MODERN ENGLISH DISCOURSE by Maria P. Taymour

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Representation of the linguistic and cultural type of «ECO-ACTIVIST» in modern English-language media by L. S. Samsonova, V. D. Shevchenko

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Devilish Bad Manners: Slaughtering Innocents on the Medieval and Early Modern English Stage by Pauline Ruberry-Blanc

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Competing Melancholies: (En-)Gendering Discourses of Selfhood in Early Modern English Literature by Rainer EMIG

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Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective by Kovbasko Yurii

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On the Coronal Palatalization in Early Modern and Present-Day English by Artur Kijak

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On analysing fragments: the case of No? by Wallage Phillip, van der Wurff Wim

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Rhetorical Mixture: Hermogenes and Hybridity in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Javiera Lorenzini Raty

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IDIOMATIC POTENTIAL OF ANATOMICAL TERMINOLOGY AND ITS ROLE IN DEVELOPING ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY by Yu.V. Lysanets, O.M. Bieliaieva

“…The article examines the idiomatic features of anatomical terminology in modern English. The authors emphasize that understanding and correct use of idiomatic expressions is an indicator of in-depth knowledge of a foreign language and an important element in preparing for international English language exams, in particular, with the aim of recognizing implicit meanings (C1 – Advanced, C2 – Proficiency levels). …”
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Des origines indo-européennes de shall by Dennis Philps

“…This paper presents the hypothesis that *(s)kel- ’to owe, be under an obligation’ continued in Old English by sculan and in Modern English by shall, is derived by a process of grammaticalisation and subsequent lexicalisation from homonymic PIE *(s)kel-’to cut’, via a putative specialized meaning of the latter, namely ’to cut notches on a tally stick to symbolize a duty, a debt, an obligation’. …”
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Lived Religion in English Convents in Exile, 1600 - 1800: Accommodating the Ordinary and the Exceptional within the Rule by Caroline BOWDEN

“…Conventual life in the early modern English communities in exile strictly observed the Rule and Constitutions which governed each house. …”
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Un cas de grammaticalisation ratée ? Étude diachronique de l’emploi du verbe stand en anglais by Maarten Lemmens

“…This article discusses the different uses of the verb stand in earlier stages of the English language, based on data from the Oxford English Dictionary. While Modern English does not use the posture verbs all that much compared to the other Germanic languages where these verbs have become basic locative verbs, the older uses show that English stand (as well as the other posture verbs sit and lie) was used in a way quite similar to what is found in other Germanic languages today. …”
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Calamities and Counterfactuals: A Historical View of Polarity Reversal by Debra Ziegeler

“…In the present study, the historical development of the two adverbs will be considered in investigating recent data from Late Modern English, in which a majority of counterfactual uses appear with a complement referring to undesirable events, sometimes expressed hyperbolically. …”
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Réécriture des pièces de Shakespeare : l’enjeu de la modernité ? by Estelle Rivier

“…But the same plays have also been the pretexts for other plays, written in modern English so as to serve new prospects. This study is based on the work of three twentieth-century writers – Arnold Wesker, Edward Bond and Tom Stoppard – who rewrote Shakespearean plays: The Merchant of Venice (The Merchant, 1977), King Lear (Lear, 1972) and Hamlet (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1967). …”
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Had + Have : une étrange construction grammaticale by Patrice Larroque

“…The use of had have in counterfactuals explains why the analysis first deals with “modal had” and the nontemporal preterite verb forms in Modern English usage. I then describe current nonstandard productions containing had have in an attempt to define the values of the constituents and the function of this auxiliary construction.…”
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