Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers is published within a series of post-conference volumes to reflect the state-of-the-art in the field of linguistic and literary research into Middle English. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a more particular interest in the broad area of sense-form relationships and text studies of the period which rely on the traditional as well as the rapidly expanding searchable resources. They concern language, literature and manuscripts studies over a wide choice of disciplines and put a notable emphasis on up-to-date tools and methodologies to provide far-fetched searches of corpora and dictionaries that allow for a new quality of token verification and theoretical generalizations.
Table of ContentsContents: Philip Durkin: Some neglected aspects of Middle English lexical borrowing from (Anglo-)French – Hans Sauer: Twin-formulae and more in late Middle-English:
The Historye of the Patriarks, Caxton’s
Ovid, Pecock’s
Donet – Liliana Sikorska:
Waiting for the Barbarians. Conceptualizing
fear in medieval Saracen romances – Artur Bartnik: On nominative resumptive pronouns in Old and Middle English – Magdalena Bator: «Tasting the smell» or «smelling the taste»? The linguistics synaesthesia within the Middle English semantic fields of SMELL and TASTE – Joanna Bukowska: The preoccupation with the abuse of truth in
Richard the Redeless and Thomas Usk’s
Testament of Love – Javier Calle-Martín/Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre: A sociolinguistic analysis of zero
that-clauses in late Middle English – Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska: The preposition
yeond in
Layamon’s Brut – Joanna Esquibel/Anna Wojtys:
Ƿatt heffness yate uss openn be or ... oppnedd be: How adjectival can a MiddIe English participle be? – Eugene Green: Finding pragmatic common ground between Chaucer’s Dreamer and Eagle in
The House of Fame – Ryuichi Hotta: Textual characteristics of the
Poema Morale, M version – Leena Kahlas-Tarkka/Matti Rissanen: On verb-based adverbial connectives in Middle English: Borrowing and grammaticalization – Yin Liu: Scribal spelling of Northern
ta as
to, and some implications – Andrzej M Łęcki/Jerzy Nykiel: All roads lead to purpose: The rise and fall of
to the end that and
to the effect that in English – Rafał Molencki: The constructionalization of
ago in Middle English – John G. Newman: Token frequency, lexico-semantic association, and the adoption of the plural marker
-(e)n(e) by Middle English feminine r-stem nouns – Fuyo Osawa: Why has an article system emerged?: The shift from parataxis to hierarchy – Tibor Örsi: Semantic shifts in Middle English borrowings from (Old) French: The semantic field of «travelling» – Agnieszka Wawrzyniak: Metaphors, metonymies and their coreferentiality in the conceptualization of love and heart in Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales – Jerzy Welna: Insertion and loss of the voiceless dental plosive [t] in Middle English – Fumiko Yoshikawa: The mapping of rhetorical strategies related to persuasion in Middle English religious prose.
