Lexis and Texts in Early English : Studies Presented to Jane Roberts / Christian J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kay, Christian, author.

Sylvester, Louise, author.

Series:

Costerus ; Volume 133.

Costerus New Series ; Volume 133

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Editions Rodopi B.V., [2001]

Summary:

These papers reflect the long and distinguished career of Professor Jane Roberts in the field of medieval English studies, and especially her pioneering work on A Thesaurus of Old English, which provides novel source material for several of the contributions to the volume. Many of the papers deal with aspects of early lexicology and lexicography, while others focus on linguistic and literary features of Old and Middle English texts and their interpretation. They will thus be of interest to researchers in many areas of early English. A special introductory article describes the interlinked development of A Thesaurus of Old English, The Historical Thesaurus of English, and the proposed Thesaurus of Middle English.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Jane Roberts: A Personal Tribute

A Bibliography of Writings by Jane Roberts

"Where are you, my brave knights!": Authority and Allegiance in La3amon's Brut

Wase, Torriano and Sherwood: Some Unacknowledged Lexical Debts

Ualdenegi and the Concept of Strange Eyes

Female Book-Ownership and Production in Anglo-Saxon England: the Evidence of the Ninth-Century Prayerbooks

Lexicology and Medieval Prostitution Woman's Wit in the Middle English Translation of Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris: British Library MS Additional 10304

'Hwalas ?ec heriga?': Creation, Closure and the Hapax Legomena of the OE Daniel

Lexical Choices for Holy Week: Studies in Old English Ecclesiastical Vocabulary

Theme in Exodus: Grammatical Meaning and Spoken Syntax in Old English Poetry

Foreign Words in the Kit Bag: James Willson's The Soldier's Pocket-Dictionary of 1794

Language as Literature

One Thesaurus Leads to Another: TOE, HTE, TME Cynewulf's Epilogue to Elene and the Tastes of the Vercelli Compiler: A Paradigm of Meditative Reading

Verbs of Emotion with Reflexive Constructions

To be a Pilgrim: the Old English Seafarer and its Irish Affinities

Pronominal Systems in the Auchinleck Manuscript

Linguistic Self-Awareness at Various Times in the History of English from Old English Onwards

The Timaeus in Old English

Doublets in the Translation Ṫechnique of John Trevisa

Tabula Gratulatoria

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004487024

9004487026

OCLC:

1299381890