Jacob Thaisen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Thaisen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Thaisen |
| SIGNATURE | THAISEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6539-3827 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
English comparative modals and their complements
English comparative modals are combinations of the adverbs rather , sooner and better with an auxiliary. There is recent consensus that the comparative modals rather and sooner have over time developed a different syntax and semantics than better . However, potential differences in the syntax of rather and sooner with respect to patterns of complementation haven’t been explored. This article reports the results of a corpus study of these two moda…
Transparently Hierarchical
The three scribes of a mid-seventeenth-century collection of medical recipes resemble each other in how they have punctuated the recipes, although they did not work simultaneously. They draw on similar repertoires of marks and they mark similar functions, but they do not use the same marks for the same functions. The principal function is the global one of indicating where the constitutive elements of the recipes begin and end. This function of i…
Initial Position in the Middle English Verse Line
This paper establishes that spelling forms collected from initial position in the Middle English verse line have unique characteristics, and it discusses why this is so. The paper first addresses scribal copying practices, before describing the utility of letter-based n-gram models in objectively comparing scribal copies in terms of their spelling. Testing of models trained on a corpus totalling ten manuscripts demonstrates that initial position …
Obituary
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in English studies in February 2013, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/0013838X.2012.732770
Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower (Chaucer Studies 33)
Cultural Encounters in the romance of medieval England (studies in medieval romance 2)
Initial Position in the Middle English Verse Line
This paper establishes that spelling forms collected from initial position in the Middle English verse line have unique characteristics, and it discusses why this is so. The paper first addresses scribal copying practices, before describing the utility of letter-based n-gram models in objectively comparing scribal copies in terms of their spelling. Testing of models trained on a corpus totalling ten manuscripts demonstrates that initial position …
Cultural Encounters in the romance of medieval England (studies in medieval romance 2)
Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower (Chaucer Studies 33)
Obituary
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in English studies in February 2013, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/0013838X.2012.732770
Initial Position in the Middle English Verse Line
This paper establishes that spelling forms collected from initial position in the Middle English verse line have unique characteristics, and it discusses why this is so. The paper first addresses scribal copying practices, before describing the utility of letter-based n-gram models in objectively comparing scribal copies in terms of their spelling. Testing of models trained on a corpus totalling ten manuscripts demonstrates that initial position …
Transparently Hierarchical
The three scribes of a mid-seventeenth-century collection of medical recipes resemble each other in how they have punctuated the recipes, although they did not work simultaneously. They draw on similar repertoires of marks and they mark similar functions, but they do not use the same marks for the same functions. The principal function is the global one of indicating where the constitutive elements of the recipes begin and end. This function of i…
English comparative modals and their complements
English comparative modals are combinations of the adverbs rather , sooner and better with an auxiliary. There is recent consensus that the comparative modals rather and sooner have over time developed a different syntax and semantics than better . However, potential differences in the syntax of rather and sooner with respect to patterns of complementation haven’t been explored. This article reports the results of a corpus study of these two moda…
Art (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Medieval Literature and History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)