Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies articles from January 1 2005

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies archives from January 1 2005

Comparative constructions in English (1).(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This paper commences by examining the conditions for use of -er or more (or either) as the form of the index of comparison in English, followed by discussion of the forms for comparison of adverbs, and of the superlative index...

Let and the "bare infinitive": an exploratory exercise in traditional (notional) grammar.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The present-day English verb let is descended from one of a set of causative verbs in Old English. In part, its history and present-day status are shared with some of these verbs and others that develop as causatives in the course...

Nim or take? A competition between two high frequency verbs in Middle English.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The paper discusses the fates of the verb nim (OE niman) which began to be displaced in later Old English by its synonym ON take. The native verb was eliminated from the standard speech in the 15th century, although it still...

"Now you see it, now you don't" once more: the loss and insertion of dental stops in medieval English.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The paper discusses the issue of the contextual disappearance of dental consonants in medieval English. The loss of dental [d] is analogous to the loss of labial [b] in that both occurred in homorganic clusters, although the loss...

Noun phrase internal gender agreement in late old English and early Middle English.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The focus of the current paper is on the phenomenon of noun phrase internal gender agreement, as observed in the 12th century manuscript E of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, namely the Peterborough Chronicle (Bodleian MS. Laud Misc....

Is reanimation of voices possible? Pragmatics of reported speech in selected Middle English texts.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT In its title, the paper alludes to the monograph on mediaeval Russian reported speech by Daniel E. Collins (2001), a successful attempt at reanimating the voices silenced in the written record from the past by means of a...

The analysis of the semantics of Middle English mowen in the light of its rise to epistemicity and eventuality.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The present paper offers a historical analysis of the semantic development of the ME verb mowen with particular attention paid to the emergence of its epistemic use. The contexts for the analysis of the ME verb mowen were taken...

Variation in multi-word units: the absent dimension.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Despite the frequent claims most linguists make about the fixedness of multi-word units (henceforth MWU's) and the almost uniform representation they receive in dictionaries, the range of variation across categories as well as...

A glance at the true self of Shakespearean ellipsis.(William Shakespeare)
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Stated simply, ellipsis is here seen possessed of the seeds, very pressingly felt, of a medium through which anaphora works. The layers built into the article include the contextual dependence of ellipsis and its essentially...

A holistic, socio-cognitive model of language and language change: a diachronic semasiological story of 'bedlam' (1).
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This paper (2) presents a holistic, socio-cognitive model of describing language and explaining its change. The primary domain of the study is lexical semantics, both synchronic and diachronic. The object of the study are lexical...

Zoosemic terms denoting FEMALE HUMAN BEINGS: semantic derogation of women revisited (1).
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This article aims to discuss semantic history of selected zoosemic terms targeted at the conceptual category FEMALE HUMAN BEING in the light of cognitive semantics (e.g. Lakoff and Johnson 1980; Lakoff 1987; Lakoff and Turner...

Cross-linguistic influence in the production of German prepositions by Polish learners of English and German.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Multilingualism is an increasingly common phenomenon in today's world as the number of people able to speak and/or understand more than one foreign language is growing. Consequently, many linguists, formerly preoccupied with...

Another learning strategy?
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Second language learners create their own glosses while working with written texts. The paper provides some arguments for recognizing this particular learner activity as a vocabulary learning strategy. The strategy, labelled here...

The laughing maiden: feminine wisdom in Chretien de Troyes' Le Conte du Graal.(Critical essay)(Character overview)
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The essay proposes a reconsideration of Chretien de Troyes' Le Conte du Graal as an existentialist romance, where Perceval's failure to help the Roi Pescheor, Fisher King, and to reach the Grail ultimately results from his failure...

Reviving Christian and druid ideals in St. Erkenwald (1).
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The paper undertakes an analysis of the 14th-century alliterative poem, St. Erkenwald, reading it as a poetic call to spiritual renewal of the English society through a vivid reenactment of oldtime pagan and Christian traditions....

Carving an identity and forging the frontier: the self-reliant female hero in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!(Critical essay)(Character overview)
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers! bridges the gap between gender and heroism. In this regional novel, Cather captures the essence of the heroic pioneer, the noble American spirit taming the West, in a female character. She creates...

Victorian quest in a medieval romance: Alfred Tennyson's "Enid".(Critical essay)
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The Victorian period produced a large body of Arthurian poetry: William Morris, Algernon Swinburne and Alfred Tennyson, to mention only a few, employed Arthurian motifs and created their own versions of the legend. Tennyson's...

Knight-errantry of the twentieth century in Graham Greene's Monsignor Quixote.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The article presents Graham Greene's 1982 Monsignor Quixote as a continuation of romance tradition. It demonstrates how the familiar motif of a quest undertaken by a chivalric knight errant organising the plot of the medieval...

The poetics of grammar as challenge and chance in literary translations.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Poetics of grammar is among the largely neglected facts in literary translations. As a rule, this term is missing in translation handbooks and also in surveys concerning translation theory. The reason why this aesthetic device...

From heresy to sainthood. Joan of Arc's quest for identity in Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Saint Joan by Shaw (1957) has been considered by many critics one of the playwright's finest literary and dramatic achievements. Other scholars point out that the play is a manifestation of the author's lack of historical insight...

From Very to Whitman: the shaping of Emerson's Poet.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The poetry of Very and Whitman represents the early and late phases of Transcendentalism respectively, and corresponds to different stages in Emerson's evolving conception of the American bard. While Very corroborated the radical...