Aspects of the history of English language and literature : selected papers read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima / Osamu Imahayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakao, Michiko Ogura (eds.).

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Imahayashi, Osamu.
• Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
• Ogura, Michiko.
• Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics.
• Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

• Studies in English medieval language and literature ; Bd. 25.
• Studies in English medieval language and literature ; Bd. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• English philology--Congresses.
• English philology.
• English language--History--Congresses.
• English literature--History and criticism--Congresses.
• English literature.
• English language.
• History.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 407 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2010.

Summary:

Established in 2001, the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics (SHELL) was founded in order to share in international conferences the work of young scholars of the English linguistics and philology that were previously shared and commented on only over computer networks so as to encourage younger scholars and students to write papers and exchange ideas. This volume collects 28 plenary lectures and papers from the SHELL conferences convened at various Japanese universities in 2005, 2007, and 2009 (the papers were in fact submitted by preponderance of Japanese contributors, but representatives of other nations, e.g. Korea, Germany, Canada, Poland, show up as well). Seven papers were drawn from symposia on Chaucer and the Dickens Lexicon Project, while the rest address a range of issues from Old English, Middle English, and Modern English, as well as the history of English in general. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

• Part I. Plenary lectures. 'Heat' in Old English and in Chaucer's creation of metaphors of love / Antoinette diPaolo Healey. Old English word-formation : constant features and changes / Hans Sauer. The older runic futhark and the Old English runes : towards further understanding of the English runic scripts / Young-Bae Park. Old English verbs with a genitive object : a doomed group? / Michiko Ogura. Some specimens of divided usage in Thomas Deloney's English / Akira Wada
• Part II. Symposia. Impersonal constructions and narrative structure in Chaucer / Akiyuki Jimura. Word pairs or doublets in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and their variant readings : a preliminary examination / Akinobu Tani. Impersonal and personal constructions in the language of Chaucer / Hideshi Ohno. Infinitival complementation in Chaucer : the case of command / Mayumi Sawada. Chaucer's ambiguity in voice / Yoshiyuki Nakao. Dr. Tadao Yamamoto and the Dickens Lexicon Project / Osamu Imahayashi. Definition of ideoms in the Dickens Lexicon / Miyuki Nishio
• (Cont.) Part III. Grendel's approach to Heorot revisited : repetition, equivocation and anticipation in Beowulf 702b-727 / Hideki Watanabe. Metrical influences on the AV/VA orders in Old English poetry / Hironori Suzuki. World order and collocation in Old English / Yoshitaka Kozuka. On the semantic and syntactic development of periphrastic modal verb + infinitive constructions in OE : comparing the versions of Gregory's Dialogues, the OE Boethius, and Psalter Glosses. Farman's changing syntax : a linguistic and palaeographical survey / Tadeshi Kotake
• Part IV. Middle English. Supplement to 'Diagramming noun phrases in Early English' / Robert D. Stevick. Lexemes and the law : the language of an unpublished fifteenth-century cartulary in Keio University Library / John Seahill. On how Norman-French hindered the development of English word order towards VO / Ireneusz Kida. Why was the dative marker crossed out in Corpus Christi College MS 4407? / Fumiko Yoshikawa

Notes:

• "The first international conference was held at Chiba University in 1-3 September 2005, the second one at Nagoya University in 7-9 September 2007, and the third one at Hiroshima University in 28-30 August 2009"--P. [v].
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Part V. Modern English and the history of English. Proposition + TIME (+ THAT) : exploring temporal connectives in Early English / Leena Kahlas-Tarkka. The rise of subordinators in the history of English : the riddle of the subordinator when / Michio Hosaka. Transitivisation in the history of English / Fuyo Osawa. The analyses and grammaticalization of be about to : an analysis of the OED quotations / Takuto Watanabe. Jane Austen's experiment with the progressive / Yoko Bando. Figurative gender and personification in 18th-century grammars : reevaluation in light of their role in the national language education / Ruiko Kawabe. A stylistic analysis of Dixonary in Vanity Fair / Masayuki Nakao.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 3631609663
• 9783631609668

OCLC:

655249955

Publisher Number:

99954928279

Online:

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