Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies articles from January 1 2006

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies archives from January 1 2006

Chicken or hen?: domestic fowl metaphors denoting human beings.(LINGUISTICS)(Table)(Report)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The native Anglo-Saxon vocabulary related to domestic animals denominations has been increased throughout the centuries and enriched with borrowings from different languages, like French, but also with loanwords from other...

A multi-dimensional description of Subject assignment in English: a corpus-based study (1).(LINGUISTICS)(Table)(Report)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The accessibility of terms to the grammatical operation of Subject assignment seems to be constrained by properties which can predict their level of accessibility to this function and which are organised in a hierarchical fashion....

Syntactic innovation processes in Nigerian English.(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This study investigates the syntactic features of Nigerian English which have been created through the following processes--the use of subjectless sentences, reduplication, double subjects, Pidgin-influenced structures, discourse...

Studies on Old and Middle English literature in Poland (1910-2006) (1).(LITERATURE)(Bibliography)
January 1, 2006... College of Modern Languages, Poznan--Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz Ahrends, Guenter--Hans-Juergen Diller (eds.) 1994 Chapters from the history of stage cruelty. Forum Modernes Theater 17. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. Bela,...

De same ole Huck--America's speculum meditantis. A (p)re-view.(LITERATURE)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT By common agreement, Huckleberry Finn is not only the most American boy in literature, but is also the character with whom American readers of all ages tend to identify most readily and most intimately. Against ready-made...

Nature's farthest verge or landscapes beyond allegory and rhetorical convention? The case of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Petrarch's Ascent of Mount Ventoux.(LITERATURE)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Petrarch's Ascent of Mount Ventoux have both been held up as marking pivotal stages in the development of naturalism in landscape descriptions. This article attempts to gauge to what extent...

A popular code for the annunciation in Medieval English lyrics.(LITERATURE)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The paper deals with a popular type of the Annunciation lyric in medieval English poetry. A brief survey of the role of the angelic announcement to Mary in medieval art and culture is given. The argument then pursues several...

Clause structure in Old English.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Clause structure in Old English. By Masayuki Ohkado, 2005. Pp. viii, 285. The volume under review is a collection of seven papers devoted to a number of issues concerning the structure of Old English (henceforth OE) clauses, with special...

"But why do I describe what all must see?": verbal explication in the Stuart Masque.(LITERATURE)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Composed of signs taken from various art disciplines, the seventeenth-century masque involved a considerable amount of interaction between its constituents. Among these, word and image seem to have been particularly...

Ideas of landscape in John Keats' Teignmouth poems.(LITERATURE)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT In the spring of 1818 John Keats journeyed to Teignmouth in Devon to care for his dying brother. This essay explores his idea of landscape in three poems of the period. The term "landscape" designates not only the geographical...

Some contextual considerations in the use of synonymous verbs: the case of steal, rob, and burglarize.(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This paper explores the use of the synonymous verbs burglarize, rob and steal in various authentic contexts in an attempt to identify the semantic and syntactic constraints that differentiate them from one another. The study,...

The formal composition of puns in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost: a corpus-based study.(LINGUISTICS)(Table)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The present paper is a corpus-based study seeking to demonstrate, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the formal composition of puns in one of Shakespeare's early festive comedies, i.e. Love's labour's lost (c1593/4). Pun is...

Scandinavian loanwords in English in the 15th century (1).(LINGUISTICS)(Era overview)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The paper concentrates on the following two issues concerning Scandinavian loanwards in English in the fifteenth century: (i) the obsolescence of loanwords and (ii) the appearance of new Scandinavian loanwords which survived later...

Anglo-Saxon verbs of sound: semantic architecture, lexical representation and constructions (1).(LINGUISTICS)(Table)(Report)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This paper provides a detailed analysis of the semantic structure of Anglo-Saxon verbs of sound from the point of view of the Lexical Grammar Model (LGM). Firstly, a description of the theoretical foundations of the LGM for the...

The semantic dissolution of the structure in ME shulen on its path to epistemicity.(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The present paper based on Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" offers a historical analysis of the semantic development of ME shulen with particular attention paid to the emergence of its future and epistemic senses. The study will...

Thou and ye: a collocational-phraseological approach to pronoun change in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Chaucer's use of the singular or plural form of the second person pronoun to address a single person in his Canterbury Tales usually follows the established standards of his time. However, some ninety instances of pronoun...

Verb forms in medieval Anglo-Irish texts.(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The object of the present study is the shift of strong to weak verbs in medieval Irish English of the fourteenth century as represented by the text of the Kildare Poems. A comparison with the developments in other dialects of...

On derivational suffixes in three Late Middle English romances: Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton, and Sultan of Babylon.(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of derivational suffixes in three Late Middle English romances. Since a number of new, foreign suffixes appeared in Middle English, more specifically of French origin, it is of...

LME -ship(e).(LINGUISTICS)(semantic evolution of the suffix -ship)(Report)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT In the paper I attempt to present the semantic evolution of the suffix -ship(e) from Early to Late Middle English. The major development in Late Middle English was the replacement of the dominant EME sense 'a quality' in a fairly...

Markers of futurity in Old English and the grammaticalization of shall and will (1).(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This paper examines the use of potential source lexemes of future markers in Old English, such as willan, sculan, beon and weorpan. First their frequency is analysed in a selection of texts from the OE part of the Helsinki Corpus...

In-phrases from a semantic perspective. Evidence from The York Cycle (1).(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The York Cycle has been chosen as the corpus for a semantic study of in-prepositional phrases. The text belongs to a linguistic period in which the presence of in-phs had already increased. The total number of instances amounts to...

Lop-webbe and henne cresse: morphological aspects of the scientific register in Late Middle English.(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The aim of the present paper is to present an approach to the vernacularisation of English scientific texts with special attention to lexicon. Word-formation is a better indicator than other linguistic levels of the extent to...

Negative concord and the loss of the negative particle ne in Late Middle English (1).(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The presence of Negative Concord (NC) and the sentential negative particle ne is investigated in northern, southern, and mixed later Middle English prose texts from around 1400. The typology of negation proposed in Rowlett (1998)...

A Shibboleth upon their tongues: early English /r/ revisited.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2006... ... the Natives of this Country, of the antient original Race or Families, are distinguished by a Shibboleth upon their Tongues in pronouncing the Letter R... (Defoe 1724-27: 232-233). ABSTRACT This article discusses the...

Language policy in Germany and beyond (1).(LINGUISTICS)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT In Germany and Switzerland the world-dominion of English was already predicted in the 19th century. While today the impact of English on German has alarming consequences for many, English lexemes often fill a welcome gap in...

The articles in English (1).(LINGUISTICS)(a and an)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT After considering the history of the label 'article', this paper shows how, although the and a(n) do make up a grammatical system in Modern English (being mutually exclusive), the two articles have quite different roles in the...

Ambiguity and language evolution: evolution of homophones and syllable number of words *.(LINGUISTICS)(Table)(Report)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT We investigate the evolution of homophones and its relation to the evolution of syllable number of words, based on the quantitative analysis on the historical data and simulation. We suggest that homophones are the outcome of...