Modern Languages Theses: Recent submissions
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The origins of Slavonic : language contact and language change in ancient eastern Europe and western Eurasia
(2004) - ThesisThis thesis attempts to analyze the causes and mechanisms of the dissolution of the language ancestral to the modern Slavonic languages. Recent advances in the field of archaeology have cast traditional theories of the ... -
Cinema plays history : National Socialism and the Holocaust in counterfactual historical films of the twenty-first century
(2018-06-28) - ThesisInspired by 2009 pastiche 'Inglourious Basterds' (US/DE), my research presents counterfactual historical film, firstly, as a marginalised type of film: the 2000s and 2010s have seen an abundance of overtly fictional films ... -
Literary, political and historical approaches to Virgil's Aeneid in early modern France
(2018-06-28) - ThesisThis thesis examines the increasing sophistication of sixteenth-century French literary engagement with Virgil’s Aeneid. It argues that successive forms of engagement with the Aeneid should be viewed as a single process ... -
Subsective gradience in 2nd participles : an aspectual approach to adjectival passives and attributive participles in English
(2018-01-23) - ThesisThis study investigates the adjectival passive, in accordance with Beedham’s (2005, 1982) analysis of the passive as an aspect, with the caveat that telicity is an optimal, not sufficient, condition. The affinity of the ... -
Psychology, gender and EFL writing : a study of the relationship between Saudi students' writing performance and their attitudes, apprehension and self-efficacy
(2017-06-22) - ThesisIt has long been accepted in the field of EFL teaching and learning that writing in a foreign language by learners is a complex practice that involves not only cognition, but also psychology. With this in mind, in the ...