This volume is a collection of papers read at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds in 2017, in two sessions organized by the Institute of English Studies at the University of London and four sessions organized by the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics. Contributions consist of poetry, prose, interlinear glosses, syntax, semantics, lexicology, and medievalism. The contributors employ a wealth of different approaches. The general theme of the IMC 2017 was 'otherness', and some papers fit this theme very well. Even when two researchers deal with a similar topic and arrive at different conclusions, the editors do not try to harmonize them but present them as they are for further discussion.
Author(s): Michiko Ogura, Hans Sauer, Michio Hosaka (eds.)
Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 55
Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 340
List of Abbreviations 9
Maps and Pictures 13
Preface and Acknowledgements 15
Part I. Poetry
1. Hironori Suzuki / The composition of 'auxiliary + main verb' constructions in Old English poetry 23
2. Hideki Watanabe / The Significance of 'nacod nið-draca' (Beowulf 2273a) Reconsidered: The Metaphorical Link Interconnecting fire, swords, warriors and monsters 41
3. Andrew Breeze / 'Brunanburh' Located: The Battlefield and the Poem 61
Part II. Prose
4. Joyce Hill / Ælfric’s Polemic of Orthodoxy versus Error: An Analysis of the Name-Game 83
5. Tomonori Yamamoto / From Verb Simplexes to Periphrastic 'Modal Verb + Infinitive' Constructions: A Semantic and Syntactic Study of the OE 'Boethius', with Reference to the Four Poems in the Junius Manuscript 97
6. Javier Martín Arista / The design and implementation of a pilot parallel corpus of Old English 111
7. Liliana Sikorska / The magical human-animal or the monstrous female in 'Le Roman de Melusine' 135
Part III. Interlinear Glosses
8. Hans Sauer & Birgit Schwan / Aldred’s combinations with 'efne', 'eft' and 'ymb': their status (wordformation, glossing device, or both), and their treatment in dictionaries 151
9. Michiko Ogura / How Free the Translation could be: Choices of Verb Forms in Lindisfarne and Rushworth Versions of the Gospels 179
10. Yoshitaka Kozuka / Reconsideration of the Development of English Third Person Plural Pronouns: An Analysis of the Use of Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns in Old English Biblical Glosses 197
Part IV. Syntax
11. Michio Hosaka / Ambiguity between the BE Perfect and the BE Passive in Old English 217
12. Kousuke Kaita / Old English 'Magan': An Expression of Adhortative Wish 239
Part V. Semantics and Lexicology
13. Jane Roberts / Some thoughts about the Old English Weaving and Spinning terms 259
14. Magdalena Bator / The Language of the Early Culinary Instructions 273
15. Rafał Molencki / Why did 'people' oust 'folk' and 'lede'? 291
Part VI. Medievalism
16. Oliver M. Traxel / Reviving a Past Language Stage: Modern Takes on Old English 309
Contributors 329
