: Linguistic Change in Present-Day English . Charles Barber.

The iconicity of infinitival complementation in Present - day English causatives

(3) Sunnedei aras ure drihten from deðe to liue. and makede arisen mid him alle þa þet him efden er ihersumed. (HM1 IR HOM LAMB14 141) ‘On Sunday Our Lord arose from death to life. And he made arise with him all those who had obeyed him.’ (4) lo þe sweoke hu he walde makien hire aleast to leapen in to prude. (HM1 IR RELT ANCR 121) ‘Lo the traitor, how he wanted to make her at last jump into pri...

Linguistic DNA: Investigating Conceptual Change in Early Modern English Discourse

This article describes the background and premises of the AHRCfunded project, ‘The Linguistic DNA of Modern Western Thought’. We offer an empirical, encyclopaedic approach to historical semantics regarding ‘conceptual history’, i.e. the history of concepts that shape thought, culture and society in a particular period. We relate the project to traditional work in conceptual and semantic history...

[Present-day problems in toxicology].

Morality and Literature (Charles Dickens and his English Contemporaries)

The Present Day Treatment

In the last three or four years the treatment of diabetes has been greatly simplified, and the introduction of insulin has enabled the general practitioner to treat diabetes with a considerable degree of success. Yet there still appears to exist some confusion as to the indications and contraindications for certain well established therapeutic measures in the management of diabetes. It is the p...