In a time when female scholars were rare in Japanese universities, Michiko Ogura completed an excellent doctorate in Old English syntax, then achieved a position at Chiba University, from which she obtained a year-long research fellowship in 1983-84 at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. During her career, Ogura has published major works on medieval English syntax, especially verbs. Professor Ogura retired at Chiba, then obtained a major research post at Keio University (2011-2015) and then a post at Tokyo Woman's Christian University, retiring in 2020. She obtained a D.Litt. from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland in 2008. The international contributors to this volume offer these studies of medieval syntax in her honor, in token of many years of friendship and scholarship.
Author(s): M. Jane Toswell, Taro Ishiguro (eds.)
Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 61
Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 390
City: Berlin
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Introduction: Michiko Ogura’s Friends (M. J. Toswell, Taro Ishiguro)
Professor Michiko Ogura in “A Fair Field Full of Folk” (Liliana Sikorska)
Noun Phrase Modification in Medieval Cooking Instructions – Revisited (Magdalena Bator)
Periphrastic Verb Constructions in Old English Verse and Lawman’s "Brut" (Daniel Donoghue)
The Verbal Syntax of '(ge)hȳran' and its Relation to Meaning (Antonette diPaolo Healey)
The English of the Cloister (Joyce Hill)
'Habban' + Past Participle of an Intransitive Verb in Old English (Michio Hosaka, Tomofumi Akiha)
Guthlac 'wende þæt he hi æfre gebetan ne mihte': Text Emendation and Expletive Negation (Taro Ishiguro)
Revisiting EVERY and EACH from Old English to Early Modern English (Leena Kahlas-Tarkka)
Sentence-Initial Modals in Old English: Speaker’s Intention and Adhortative Power (Kousuke Kaita)
The Encroachment of the Inflection '-est' on the Past Subjunctive 2nd Person Singular Forms 'wolde' and 'sceolde' of Old English 'willan' and '*sculan': Syntactic, Morphological and Semantic Variation (Matti Kilpiö)
Word Order in Old English Interlinear Glosses: A Case Study on the Position of Inserted Pronominal Subjects (Tadashi Kotake)
On the So-called Genitive Object in Old English (Yoshitaka Kozuka)
The Pluperfect Forms in the Different Manuscripts of "Cursor Mundi" (Rafał Molencki)
Syntax, Meter, Early Medieval: An Intersectional Approach to Old English Verse (Haruko Momma)
Hrothwulf’s Time with Hrothgar: 'siþþan' in "Widsith", Lines 45–49 (Richard North)
Syntax and Style in Old English Verse: Binomials and "Beowulf" (Andy Orchard)
Some Problems of Categorization in Early Middle English (Jane Roberts)
Syntax and Beyond: Binomials in the Apollonius Story as Told by Gower (Hans Sauer)
The Hebrews with Braided Locks: A Note on 'Wundenlocc' ("Judith" 325) (Jun Terasawa)
Old English Syntax, Especially Verbs, in Early Nineteenth Century Primers, Especially Joseph Gwilt (M. J. Toswell)
Syntactic and Narrative Significance of the Three Instances of 'þæt wæs god cyning' in "Beowulf" Reconsidered
A Bibliography of Writings by Michiko Ogura
Contributors
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