In this article I propose to examine Middle English through one of William Shakespeare’s dramas, Othello. The extracts are taken from Act III.3, and Act IV.2.

I. Morphology
I.1. Verbal forms
I.1.1. Personal Endings
By the end of the Middle English period, the -e suffix in the first person
singular present indicative was lost. In the second person singular […]

When examining the Scottish form of English, it becomes clear that it shows the characteristics of an autonomous language, however, in the development of Scots in the modern period an officially recognised standard or sociolinguistic norm is lacking. Instead there exists the Scottish standard English. (CHEL, Vol. V: 235)
Nowadays, the most well-defined dialect boundary […]

This article deals with two major groups:
1, words formed as grammatical syntagmas, i.e. combinations of full linguistic signs, and
2, words which are not grammatical syntagmas, i.e. which are composites not made up of full linguistic signs.
To the first group belong Compounding, Prefixation, Suffixation, Derivation by a Zero Morpheme and Backderivation,
to the second […]

I have been to an interview today. Like everyone else, I also need to eat and get warm clothes for myself, so I attended an interview at the world’s leading investment bank, Morgan Stanley. You may not have realised, but I am a financial guru, a master of numeracy, a genious of investment banking, or […]