The Arabic Element in Scots Lexis by Jeremy J. Smith

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Is the Adjectival Suffix -al a Strong Suffix? by Quentin Dabouis

“…Within the framework introduced by Guierre (1979), this paper challenges the commonly accepted classification of the adjectival suffix -al as a strong suffix through the study of a corpus of pronouncing dictionary data enriched with additional information from other sources such as the Oxford English Dictionary. After a review of the disparities between different analyses and classifications of that suffix in the literature, it is shown that most descriptions previously proposed are problematic. …”
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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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Polysémie de HOW dans la King James Version by Mathilde Pinson

“…Finally, it will be shown that the causal value of how has not disappeared altogether from Present-Day English, contrary to what the Oxford English Dictionary indicates, and it will be hypothesized that the use of causal how in Scottish Vernacular English is related to that in the KJV.…”
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À la recherche du substrat cognitif du submorphème SM- by Line Argoud

“…From the definitions of ‘sm- words’ attested in the Oxford English Dictionary and the English Dialect Dictionary, I shall endeavour to show that the phonological invariance of this heuristically-formed class corresponds to a submorphemic invariance which may be traced back to a very ancient process of conceptualization of the human body. …”
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English Slang in “Gap Year” Movies Series by Rahilla Fanny Fanny

“…In this research, the data were collected from Gap Year movie series in the form of British slangs.Then the data were checked by using dictionary, Oxford English Dictionaries Online and Etymology dictionaries online to make sure whether the data belonged to slang words or not and also to check the origin of the words. …”
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