Of fair speche, and of fair answere

Herausgegeben:Krygier, Marcin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan (Poland) in November 2010. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of Old and Middle English language studies, from gender/declension shifts and historical English syntax to semantic field analysis.

Produktdetails

• Medieval English Mirror 8
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 262588
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 11mm x 148mm x 210mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9783631625880
• ISBN-10: 363162588X
• Artikelnr.: 36896001

Autorenporträt

Marcin Krygier is author or co-author of numerous publications on Old and Middle English phonology and morphology and head of the Department of the History of English at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Elzbieta Adamczyk: Þære nihte or Þæs nihtes? On the interplay of gender shift and declension shift in Old English - Michael Bilynsky: The chronological width in the OED reconstruction of Middle English verbs and derivatives - Artur Bartnik: Dative resumptive pronouns in Old English Þe relatives - Jerzy Nykiel/Andrzej M. Lecki: Toward a diachronic account of English prepositional subordinators expressing purpose: To the intent that - Magdalena Bator: The semantic field TASTE in Old and Middle English.