http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/123467 Issue 1 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:36:40 GMT 2026-04-07T23:36:40Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/123611 Remarks on the left periphery in the medieval Brittonic languages Eska, Joseph F. This paper proposes that the clausal configuration of affirmative root clauses in the medieval Brittonic languages is best characterised as a token of a relaxed verb-second (V2) language, in which the verb can appear as late as sixth position in the clause, but can be preceded by no more than a single argument. The absolute restriction to only a single argument occurring before the verb is related to the evolution of medieval Brittonic V2 from a cleft structure. There are, in fact, tokens of two arguments appearing before the verb in all of the medieval Brittonic languages, but these are exclusively the result of poetic overdetermination. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/123611 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/123610 Death of an Old Assyrian Salesman Anderson, Adam G. Were it not for the death of the salesman, it would have been an otherwise mundane story. What made Death of a Salesman unique, was that it dealt respectfully with the decline of a generation, juxtaposed against the death of one man. It described the daily life of a middle-class American, which has remained in the cultural memory for at least six generations—a story which many could relate to still today. In this same way, the archives of Šalim-Aššur preserve a similar sounding story. Written upon 1,600 clay tablets is the impression of a man who opened new territories with his family’s trade, and who marked a cycle of decline that impacted all subsequent generations. The overarching message confronts the many years of scholarly emphasis of the ‘family model’ to address what has clearly been lacking: the social context that extended beyond the family, which was paradigmatically leveraged by the Assyrians to form a vast hierarchical network of trade. By situating this one family within their extra-familial ties, this paper explores how extended relationships exerted their strong and weak forces in supporting and sustaining the viability of the trade during the Old Assyrian Period (ca. 1950–1750 B.C.E.). Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/123610 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z