Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies articles from January 1 2001

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies archives from January 1 2001

Received pronunciation: sociolinguistic aspects. (Linguistics).
January 1, 2001... 1. RP as a minority accent An often cited statistic has it that in Britain RP speakers constitute only 3 percent of the population. When this statistic first became commonplace in the sociolinguistics literature, it was not unusual for...

Received Pronunciation: who "receives" it and how long will it be "received"?
January 1, 2001... In this paper I want to consider the proposition that British "Received Pronunciation" (RP) no longer exists. This may seem at first sight to be a dubious claim, as it is certain that many people in Britain speak with an accent similar to that...

Estuary English and RP: some recent findings.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... 1. Introduction In mid-1980s Rosewarne published an article discussing recently observed pronunciation tendencies, which he collectively labelled as "Estuary English" (henceforth EE). (1) The accent in question was in evidence in radio and...

Reconsidering the history of the English verbal system (1).
January 1, 2001... Synchronic variation and diachronic change are two manifestations of the same, underlying force that makes language such a successful and essential part of human existence. Any attempt at controlling, delaying, or preventing its operation is...

Old English reflexes of Sievers' Law.
January 1, 2001... 1. Introductory remarks Ever since its original formulation in 1878, Sievers' law has been subject to much critique and remained a matter of contention centred primarily around the extent of its application, its precise dating, the degree...

Naturalness, Markedness and the productivity of the Old English a-declension.
January 1, 2001... 1. Introduction and aim The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons why the Old English a-declension (1) of nouns eventually became the only productive one in the later history of the language, as is demonstrated by the...

Suppletion for suppletion, or the replacement of eode by went in English (1).
January 1, 2001... 1. Suppletion in Germanic Like other Indo-European languages, also Germanic occasionally employed forms deriving from historically different roots in its inflectional paradigms. In the case where "it is not possible to show a relationship...

On the non-expressed object of Old English infinitives.
January 1, 2001... 1. Introduction In this paper we are concerned with the manifold types of Old English infinitival "transitive" constructions where no lexical or overt DP is instantiated in the object position, and the claim is made that a common...

Gender communication. (Reviews).
January 1, 2001... Gender communication. By Satoko Hamamoto. Tokyo: Liber Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 188. The book under review, written in an easily accessible style, covers a number of topics in gender communication from a sociolinguistic point of view, taking...

Die Glossen der Hs. British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A. III: Phonologie, Morphologie, Wortgeographie. (Reviews).
January 1, 2001... Die Glossen der Hs. British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A. III: Phonologie, Morphologie, Wortgeographie. (Europaische Hochschulschriften, Reihe XIV, Angelsachsische Sprache und Literatur 347.) By Wolfgang Kittlick. Frankfurt: Lang, 1998. Pp. 279....

Intertextual competence: the reader's key to the treasure.
January 1, 2001... While the inescapable "osmosis" of texts and their dependence one on another has always been a feature of literature, the term "intertextuality" which gives justice to this phenomenon was coined only in the 1960s. The term denoted a focus on...

From Edwards to Slosson: typology, nature, and the New England domestic gothic.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... To the memory of David H. Hirsch Jonathan Edwards does not really require much introduction to an audience of Americanists and everyone will recognize in this title the blueprint of Perry Miller's classic essay on the continuity of ideas...

The idea of cultural continuity in G. Chaucer's house of Fame.
January 1, 2001... In Chaucer's description of the hail of Fame, we notice a series of figures representing famous ancient authors, most of them writing in Latin. They are shown as titanic, Atlas-like figures standing on columns, and bearing on their shoulders...

Orality and literacy in Middle English religious literature on the example of medieval lives of Christ.
January 1, 2001... The concepts of orality and literacy have been subjects of heated discussions among linguists and historians of literature over the last forty years. With the publication of Walter J. Ong's 1982 classic Orality and literacy The technologizing...

The construction of power and pride in the framework of political allegory in the Middle English Pride of Life. (Literature).
January 1, 2001... This paper examines the construction of power and pride in relation to the political allegory in The Pride of Life (c. 1350). The play, although fragmentary, being the earliest existing morality, remains pivotal in our understanding of the...

Orthography in the Cely letters.
January 1, 2001... 0. Introduction I will start this paper with a short presentation of the corpus and the differences between the original manuscripts and the edition used for the purposes of the analysis. Then, I will focus on the orthographic variation...

Metaphors we love by: on the cognitive metaphors of love from the 15th century to the present.
January 1, 2001... 1. Introduction In their pioneering book Metaphors We Live By Lakoff and Johnson (1980: 22) claimed that "the most fundamental values in a culture will be coherent with the metaphorical structure of the most fundamental concepts in the...

A corpus-based study of the figure and ground in siting, standing, and lying construction.
January 1, 2001... 1. Introduction Sitting, standing, and lying are common at-rest positions for humans and the verbs which refer to these positions can have a significant role to play in some languages in addition to the basic posture sense. The additional...

Recent derivatives with the suffix -less: a change in progress within the category of english privative adjectives?
January 1, 2001... 1. Introduction (1) The aim of the present paper is to offer a cognitive grammar account of newly coined privative adjectives such as paperless (office) and cordless (telephone). (2) First, however, I will briefly characterize the overall...

Composite Predicates and idiomatisation in Middle English: a Corpus-based approach (1).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... 0. Introduction The idiomatic nature of Composite Predicates (2) in Present Day English has often been acknowledged (see, for instance, Algeo 1995: 205). It has been argued that in earlier stages of the language Composite Predicates were...

The code and context of Monasteriales Indicia: a semiotic analysis of late Anglo-Saxon monastic sign language.
January 1, 2001... 1. Introduction. The manuscript and Benedictine contexts of Monasteriales Indicia Monasteriales Indicia is an Old English description of the sign language used by the Benedictine community at Christchurch, Canterbury, and possibly at other...

On the origin of the English diminutive suffix -y, -ie.
January 1, 2001... One of the etymological mysteries of contemporary English historical linguistics is the origin of the diminutive suffix -y, -ie, which first appeared during the Middle English Period. According to The Oxford English Dictionary, the morpheme...

The Scots -- Northern English continuum of marking noun plurality.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... 0. Introduction The aim of this paper is to present an analysis of nominal plural markers within the language continuum on both sides of the Solway-Tweed line in the period between the late 14th -- early 16th centuries. The Scots --...