David O'Neil

University of Southern Indiana, English, Faculty Member

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The Ear, the Foot, the Gut: The Metaphoric Body of the Timer Tradition of Old English Metrics

Essays in Medieval Studies, 2018

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English as the Lingua Franca of International Publishing

World Englishes, 2018

As a contribution to debates about the predominance of English as a global lingua franca, this pa... more As a contribution to debates about the predominance of English as a global lingua franca, this paper presents a study of worldwide publishing rates in the natural and social sciences. Bibliometric data from Scimago's index of Elsevier's Scopus database show: (1) a general increase in indexed documents from 1996-2015 that has outpaced increases in world population and gross world product (GWP); (2) stark disparities between nations of the center and periphery (whether defined in economic or linguistic terms); and (3) steady reductions in these disparities. It can be inferred from these data that indexed journals are becoming more nationally diverse in their contents, though the appearance of high rates of change for a small subset of countries should be attributed to indexing factors rather than real progress.

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A Syntactic Basis for the Distribution of Metrical Types in Beowulf

The Mediaeval Journal, 2017

In this paper, the distribution of metrical types in Beowulf is examined in the context of severa... more In this paper, the distribution of metrical types in Beowulf is examined in the context of several syntactic factors. Special attention is given to the functional parts of speech described in Kuhn’s Laws as Satzpartikeln (‘sentence particles’) and Satzteilpartikeln (‘phrase particles’). In the current sample, metrical type could be narrowly predicted by phrasal type, phrasal cohesiveness at the level of the half-line, and the presence or absence of verse-initial particles. These results suggest that the metrical expression of Beowulf and perhaps other OE poems was syntactically dependent, if not syntactically governed. An important implication is that metrical changes observed in the alliterative tradition in late OE and ME poems may have been caused, at least in part, by syntactic changes in English occurring around the same time.

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