商品簡介
Historical in this context ranges from Old English poetic diction and the language of death to the first appearance of dude in American newspapers. Other topics include a preliminary sketch of Reginald Pecock (1390-1460) and his vocabulary, Old English sal "time:" metaphor and metonymy in word and text, Middle English decline of the Old English word leode: a case study of the two manuscripts of Layamon's Brut, historical word-formation caught in the present, names of medicines in early modern English medical texts 1500-1700, and the regional aspects of the distribution of nouns in -ling in Middle English. The 21 papers were written for an international conference in Warsaw held in December 2011. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Jacek Fisiak is a retired professor and head of the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland), and currently head of the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the University of Social Sciences (Spoleczna Akademia Nauk) in Lodz. He has published widely in the area of English linguistics including the history of English, Old and Middle English and historical dialectology on both sides of the Atlantic.
Magdalena Bator received her PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan in 2008. Currently she is a lecturer at the School of English at the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw. Her research interests focus on various aspects of English historical linguistics, in particular historical semantics.
