Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies articles from January 1 1996

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies archives from January 1 1996

The dialect position of the Old English Orosius.
January 1, 1996... My good friend the mediaeval Welsh literary historian Dr. Andrew Breeze contends in several recent articles (1991, 1992ab) that the translator of Orosius's Historia adversus Paganos into Old English was a Cornishman. I do not think for a moment...

From Domesday Book to Lay Subsidy Rolls: place-names as informants of linguistic change.
January 1, 1996... English place-names have frequently been used in recent decades by researchers in different historical fields. In the case of the study of linguistic evolution, the publication in 1913 of Eilert Ekwall's innovative article "Die...

Subject extraction in English: some problems of interpretation.
January 1, 1996... 1. Introduction (1) In recent discussion of English syntax, the question of restrictions governing the extractability of the subject has generally been seen as a topic of great theoretical interest, and has therefore received a great deal...

The temporary merger of OE scitan and scyttan, or: a case of harmless homophony.
January 1, 1996... The starting point of the following brief observations is the view of homonymic clash discussed in Lass (1980: 75ff.). Here he spells out in detail the processes necessarily implied by Samuels' (1972: 142f.) position of the...

Compounds and syntactic phrases in modern Irish.
January 1, 1996... 1. Introduction (1) A subject which has attracted much attention in recent studies of morphology is the manner in which the formation of compounds should be handled. For a representative spectrum of opinions see Roeper and Siegel 1978,...

The cooperative principle and the functional transition in English verbs.
January 1, 1996... 1. Introduction In modern English numerous verbs are straddling between the categories of transitive verbs and intransitive ones. In dealing with this peculiar phenomenon, there have been two major theoretic treatments available: one is...

Politics and politicians for sale: an examination of advertising English in Nigeria's Political Transition Programme.
January 1, 1996... Introduction (2) Advertisements or ads arc certainly not short of definitions, although the language of advertising seems to have received little attention from linguists in the past. Many descriptions take a utilitarian view of...

Actional and Relational verbs in newspaper editorials.
January 1, 1996... 1. Introduction In this paper, we will analyse 60 editorials from the British newspapers The Sun and The Times, using the lateral verb model outlined in Kress and Hodge's (1979) "Language as Ideology", a seminal work that advocates closer...

Mapping the problems of sexual desire in The Book of Margery Kempe. (Literature).
January 1, 1996... Because he dreams of seeding the world with words his eyes bite She looks He looks away He is snowblind from staring at her breasts They make love This is marked by asterisks those gaps disguised as stars * * * He thinks...

A portrait of the artist as a Shakespearean character in the 'Winter's Tale.'(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1996... It is rather commonplace to say that art plays a crucial role in The Winter's Tale. But the part it is given -- even in the literal sense -- is so extraordinary and overwhelming that this statement seems necessary to ensure that the present...

A sample contrastive analysis of "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane and "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" by Joseph Conrad.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1996... The purpose of the present paper is to show the striking similarities between "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane and "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus"' by Joseph Conrad. There seems to exist a close dialogue between the two stories, published over...

The deep structure of narrative element in neoclassical fable.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1996... In grateful memory of my spiritual guide, professor Henryk Zbierski. 1. Introduction The fable, originating in the classical period, in the European literature of modern times became fully canonized as a genre only in the age of...

The experiences of the frontier in John Barth's The sot-weed factor.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1996... The American frontier, or as Wright Morris describes it in The Territory Ahead, "a series of circles dissolving westward" (Morris 1961: 9), has unfailingly impregnated the minds of settlers in the New World. The reason? Sheer vastness of the...

The syntax of sentence and text: a festschrift for Frantisek Danes. (Reviews).
January 1, 1996... The syntax of sentence and text: a festschrift for Frantisek Danes. By Svetla Cmejrkova and Frantisek Sticha (eds). Pp. 393. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1994. In the age of information explosion, it is difficult to keep track...

Quantitative linguistics. (Reviews).
January 1, 1996... Quantitative linguistics. By Marie Tesitelova. Pp. 253. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1992. This is the thirty-seventh volume of the series "Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe (LLSEE)". The idea of this series is...