Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies articles from January 1 2007

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies archives from January 1 2007

The loss of [ei] : [ai] opposition in Middle English *.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT On the basis of several electronic and online corpora this paper discusses the temporal and regional conditioning of the elimination of the diphthong [ei] in Middle English, a process which led to a restructuring of the system of...

Twin lexical collocations in legal late Middle English (1).(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The aim of this study is an attempt to examine the occurrence and expansion of lexical clusters (collocations) in legal late Middle English and to determine whether or not these multi-word items are recurrent, cohesive, arbitrary...

The word order of Old English and Old High German non-conjoined declarative clauses in different text types.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The aim of the present paper is to compare word-order patterns of two West Germanic languages, English and High German, at the early stage of their development, on the example of one clause type, namely non-conjoined declarative...

Categorial heterogenity: Old English determiners *.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This paper examines the syntactic properties of two structures illustrated in (1) and (2): 1) his bone readan gim his the red gem 'his red gem' (coblick,HomU_18_[B1Hom_1]:9.125.121), 2) [thorn]aes his cwides that his...

Chronological homogeneity in Middle English deverbal word-formation: the evidence from the Oxford English dictionary.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Present-day epistemological possibilities of corpus methodology allow to introduce elements of experimentation into the study of the earliest attestations of word-forming families' members with regard to the scope of temporal...

Resolution of ellipsis: evidence from Old English sluicing (1).(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT English sluicing presents some puzzling patterns: as expected, it operates over syntactically related antecedents and orphans, but it also operates over those that show a less direct relationship. It is not immediately obvious how...

Possible origins of different usages in present-day spoken and written English.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Within the continuum of spoken and written English some variations, c. g. the varying usage of negation and the opposition of pronominal usage, can be explained with reference to the varying characteristics of speech and writing....

The pre-verbal I- in early Middle English: an analysis of the formal parameters of the prefixed verbs.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT In contrast to the majority of works on the pre-verbal i-/y- in Middle English which usually attempt to explain the loss of the prefix, the present study focuses on the formal traits of the prefixed verbs. The intended aim of the...

The Scandinavian element beyond the Danelaw.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The Scandinavian element is present in English mainly due to the Viking invasions and later settlement of the Vikings in the British Isles. Hence, it has been usually assumed that the Scandinavian loanwords entered the English...

Evidence for morphological restructuring in the second person pronoun in early English correspondence.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The focus of this article is morphosyntactic. Its aim is to provide evidence for a particular type of syntactic reanalysis which is likely to have contributed to the establishment of you as a universal form of the second person...

"More strenger and mightier": some remarks on double comparison in Middle English.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The marginal participation of double comparison (1), like more nicer, in adjective gradation in historical and contemporary English has been corroborated by numerical evidence (Kyto and Romaine 1997, 2000; Gonzalez-Diaz 2004,...

Natural syntax: English dependent clauses.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Natural Syntax is a developing deductive theory. The naturalness judgements are couched in naturalness scales, which follow from the basic parameters (or "axioms") listed at the beginning of the paper. The predictions of the...

The noun phrase structure in Nigerian English.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Scholars have described Nigerian English in different ways. While some see it as a language that is evolving from a bilingual/multilingual background with influences from multiple languages, some see it as a deviation from the...

Chaucer's clergeon, or towards holiness in The Prioress's Tale.(LITERATURE)(Geoffrey Chaucer)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... The brief appearance and subsequent disappearance of the child are illogical, ominous, and loaded with significance beyond the understanding of the other characters and of the reader (Shahar 1991: 135). ABSTRACT A narrative...

The unruly household in John Heywood's Johan Johan.(LITERATURE)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The very title of John Heywood's interlude A mery play between Johan Johan, the husband, Tyb his wife, and Sir Johan the priest (in print by 1533) suggests a fabliaux-like, farcical intrigue, which can be enacted by three...

The protean nature of Irish tale: the generic analysis of Maria Edgeworth's Ennui.(LITERATURE)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The aim of the article is to demonstrate the derivative nature of Irish tale, a short-lived genre which thrived in the Romantic period. The analysis is based on Maria Edgeworth Ennui (1809), which skillfully and self-consciously...

The author and the reader--"us and them" in Maria Edgeworth's texts for children and young adults.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The paper attempts to tackle the hyphenated self of Maria Edgeworth as Anglo-Irish writer in her books for children and young adults, reflected not only in the fact of the occasional introduction of Irish characters or Irish...

Paradise revisited: images of the first woman in the poetry of Joy Kogawa and the fiction of Thomas King.(LITERATURE)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The article offers a comparative analysis of a poem by Joy Kogawa entitled A song of Lilith, and the chosen texts by Thomas King, namely his short-story "One good story, that one" and his novel Green grass, running water. Despite...

History or journalism: two narrative paradigms in Bloody Sunday. Scenes from the Saville inquiry by Richard Norton-Taylor.(LITERATURE)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The article focuses on one of the most controversial plays in contemporary Irish theatre, Richard Norton-Taylor's Bloody Sunday. Scenes from the Saville Inquiry. The play belongs to the popular form of drama called verbatim or...

The dis-closure of Huckleberry Finn. Natura Naturata vs. Lumen Naturale, ligthing out vs. Lichtung (1).(LITERATURE)(Essay)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Against the popular frontier-wilderness discourse, the paper offers to discuss one of the most celebrated lines in all American literature, Huck Finn's closing resolution to light out ahead of the rest, as an adverbial-existential...