Middle English in Early Auden

Mandative constructions in Middle English

1 Mandative constructions: Delimiting the object of the study Mandative constructions express that a certain action (should) be performed or a certain state be achieved. In terms of illocutionary acts, they are directives. They can be independent or dependent. The verbal syntagm of independent mandative constructions is either in the imperative or in the subjunctive mood (e.g. close the window,...

Medicine in the English middle ages

other writers driven by the agendas of cognitive neuroscience, is the meaning of reference to "psychology", "neurophilosophy", or "neuroscience" in the early modern period. In spite of the enormous attention to historical scholarship, books like this one have no intention of being side-tracked by the question whether the categories in terms of which we assemble knowledge are themselves historic...

‘Early interactions’ in Australian English, American English, and English English: Cultural differences and cultural scripts

This study applies the techniques of contrastive ethnopragmatics to communicative style in initial conversational interactions in three varieties of Anglo English: Australian English, American English, and English English. It proposes for each variety a distinctive suite of cultural scripts concerning matters such as presumed stance in relation to sameness and difference, degree of attention to...

Aspectual properties of the English middle construction

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the aspectual properties of middle constructions in English. English middle constructions are non-eventive sentences deno ting a property of the grammatical subject. Middle formation seems to have certain similarities with passivization as both processes involve demotion or deletion of the external argument and promotion of the internal argument to...

Power, agency and middle leadership in English primary schools