Phases of the History of English: Selection of Papers Read at Shell 2012 (Hardcover)

Contents: Jacek Fisiak: Discovering English Historical Linguistics in Japan: A Personal View ? Joyce Hill: Naming the Liturgical Year: Reflections on Vernacular Practice ? Hans Sauer: Middle English Word-Formation: A Sketch ? Liliana Sikorska: Malevolent Visitors: on Hosts and Hostiles in Medieval Romances ? John Scahill: Syntagmatic Glossing in the Old English Gloss to the Rule of St Benedict ? Tadashi Kotake: Gospel Glosses in Context: with Special Reference to Old English Scratched Glosses in London, BL, Additional 40000 ? Tomonori Yamamoto: The Semantic and Syntactic Study of Periphrastic ‘Modal verb + Infinitive’ Constructions in OE: Comparing the Versions of the OE Gospels ? Young-Bae Park: Impersonals in OE Syntax: Data and Explanations ? Michiko Ogura: Ambiguity in Old English ? Yoshitaka Kozuka: Element Order in Old English Translation ? Michio Hosaka: A Diachronic Approach to Cleft Constructions in English ? Fuyo Osawa: Impersonal Constructions and the Non-universality of Subject ? Hideki Watanabe: Form, hand, and mund in Beowulf Reconsidered: Symbolism and Synecdoche for the hands in Heorot ? Hironori Suzuki: Metrical influences on constructions with complex predicates in Old English hypermetric verses ? Robert D. Stevick: Much Ado About Nothing, or, Further Thoughts on Null in Early English Writing ? Takuto Watanabe: On the transition from ymb to about in Old and Middle English ? Fumiko Yoshikawa: How is a Text Classified in Mystical Writing? Typical Vocabulary and Expressions in Middle English Mystical Writing ? Akinobu Tani: Revising the Loss of the Verb Wit in Comparison with Know: A Survey into the ICAMET ME Prose Corpus ? Akira Okada: An Investigation of English Negative Prefixes Appearing as Doublets - inability, disability, non-ability, unability ? Yoko Iyeiri: The Pronoun it and the Dating of Middle English Texts ? Fuminori Nakamura: On the Changes in the Clausal Complement of the Copulative Perception Verbs in American English ? Kiriko Sato: Whomever in present-Day American English.