Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies articles from January 1 2004

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies archives from January 1 2004

Graphotactics of the Old English 'Alexander's Letter to Aristotle'.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... Abstract This paper describes empirical evidence in the Old English MS text of 'Alexander's Letter to Aristotle' for study of syntactic, morphotactic, and phonotactic aspects of a text representative of late West Saxon Old English--the...

Grammatical change in Old English strong verbs: early traces of elimination.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The original Proto-Germanic consonantal alternations of voiceless and voiced fricatives, generated by the operation of Verner's Law, though slightly modified, were relatively well attested in Old English. They were most regularly...

No less than four notes on less.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Here are four notes concerned with related aspects of the morphosyntax of less in English. The first is concemed with (re-)drawing attention to the currency of a usage in which less is accompanied by a plural noun, as in the title...

Middle English e-raising: a prelude to the Great Vowel Shift.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The paper discusses the early i-/y-spellings which may indicate the narrowing of the long mid close vowel [e: > i:] even before the 15th century, a date generally considered the initial stage of the Great Vowel Shift. The change,...

Diglossia in Anglo-Saxon England, or what was spoken Old English like?(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT This paper suggests that diglossia in caste-like Anglo-Saxon societies consisted of O[E.sub.H] used by a very, small elite of largely Continental Germanic ancestry and O[E.sub.L] spoken by the bulk of the population. These shifted...

On some French elements in early middle English word derivation.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The present paper is a report on an on-going research concerning the productivity of some French suffixes in Early Middle English (1150-1350). The suffixes selected for discussion are: -esse, -age, -crie and -ment. The tools used...

A "two-way relationship in English" revisited: on reciprocal expressions in early English, with a digression into Modern English uses.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The present study aims at providing a survey of the earliest English developments of reciprocal expressions, from the Old English discontinuous expressions, in which the elements are separated from each other by other sentence...

Binary correlations of Middle English one-root deverbal coinages in the OED textual prototypes.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The rise and consolidation of paradigmatic relations in the deverbal lexion can be more fully traced by considering the first attestations of these coinages and their parent verbs. The paper presents the results of a study of...

Semantic changes within the domain boy in panchronic perspective.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Traditionally considered a subject of historical linguistics studies par excellence--semantic Change--can be understood as conventionalisation of context-dependent modification of usage. Treated in this way, it does not...

Enlarging the lexicon: the field of technology and administration from 1150 to 1500.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The description of the vocabulary belonging to the field of technology and administration during the Middle English period is thought to ascertain the well-known relationship between language and society through the lexical...

The saving slide to dynamism: ellipsis caught up in its otherness.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Locked into various accounts, ellipsis takes up all of the space of this article. Its theme being the conflict between deletion and non-deletion, the paper departs from transformational-generative grammar and passes through...

The n-less versus -n past participle forms of certain ablaut verbs in seventeenth and early eighteenth century American and British English.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The majority of publications in the field of ablaut verbs finish their analyses at the turn of the fifteenth century. Only scant mentions are given to strong or irregular verbs in later periods in the history of English,...

Lexical-level representation of morphologically complex words: effects of priming Polish compound words with stem- or compound-related associates.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT This paper presents a priming experiment designed with the aim of throwing light on the representation of Polish compound words in the mental lexicon. It starts with a review of theoretical approaches to the issue of the lexical...

Some pragmatic considerations in the positioning of if-clause in conditional sentences.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT This paper reports on an investigation of the pragmatic factors influencing the position of if-clauses in conditional sentences. More than (900) nine hundred instances, extracted from such sources as novels, textbooks, and...

Parallel conjunctive relations in EFL.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Parallelism is a well-recognized norm in English sentences; Dr. Johnson, Frances Bacon, and Walt Whitman are but few examples of creative writers who distinguished their styles with parallelism. Because if gives texts an effect of...

On the effectiveness of options in grammar teaching: translating theory and research into classroom practice.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT For many years the role of gntmmar instruction in foreign language pedagogy has been subjeet to considerable controversy. Apart from generating a diversity of theoretical positions and models, the issue has resulted in a number of...

Linguistic computer tutors and learner autonomy.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT A one-to-one mode of tutoring is an invaluable asset of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), as it guarantees fast progress of linguistic competence. Unfortunately, ITSs are rarely designed to support the development of more...

'My cours, that hath so wyde for to turne,/ hath moore power than woot any man': the children of Saturn in Chaucer's Monk's Tale.(Literature)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT In the article it is suggested that there might exist a relationship between Chaucer's Knight's Tale and his Monk's Tale, the latter of which is often listed among other tales about the "victimized children" (The Clerk's Tale, The...

Courtly love in the world "without a hero": W. M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair.(Literature)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Medieval romance is a genre difficult to define: it tan be written in verse (like romances of Chretien de Troyes) but also in prose (like Malory's works) and the length of a romance might vary. Some see in the romance an...

Sir Walter Scott's licentia historica--the historical novel as a displaced romance.(Literature)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The novelistic genre from its origin has functioned in between two discourses: fictional and factual. On the one hand it shares numerous characteristics with romance, from which it has striven to distance itself, on the other it...

Cubist aesthetics in Stevens' "The Man with the Blue Guitar": defence against surrealism.(Literature)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The critics have discussed the influence of either Cubism or Surrealism on Stevens' "The Man with the Blue Guitar". The paper examines the impact of both of these movements on the poem. It claims that Stevens referred to Cubist...

The Lexicon in Dickens.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tadao Yamamoto, Growth and system of the language of Dickens: An introduction to a Dickens lexicon. (3rd, revised, edition). Hiroshima: Keisuisha Publishing Company, 2003. Pp. 589. Tadao Yamamoto (1904-91) studied under the tutelage of Dr....

An introduction to Old English.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... An introduction to Old English. (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language) By Richard Hogg. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 163. A mere half a century ago knowledge of the history of English was considered one of...

English from Caedmon to Chaucer: the literary development of English.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... English from Caedmon to Chaucer: The literary development of English. By S. Terrie Curran. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 290. One of the doubts which are likely to befall a potential reader of the publication...