This book offers the first comprehensive study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs combining the prefix «be-» with a preposition, an adverb or a numeral recorded in prose texts. Six best establ
Among thirteenth-century English devotional writings, the «Ancrene Wisse», the Katherine Group and the Wooing Group are central to debate about a putative standardised English, the AB Language. This b
Inspired by Martin Heidegger’s notion of being-in-the-world, this study presents a quasi-phenomenological close reading of Herman Melville’s most famous novella Bartleby the Scrivener and Mark Twain’s
In the process of investigating the sociolinguistic aspects of English in Poland after socialism, Przygonski (English as a foreign language and linguistics, Poznan U. of Economics, Poland) develops a
Numeral constructions in Polish are known for their complex morpho-syntax: in particular, depending on the type, case and syntactic context, the numeral may show properties of the adjective or the nou
The ubiquity of mobile devices has opened the way to extending learning environments far beyond the constraints of the traditional foreign language classroom. This book seeks to advance the knowledge
Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of their distribution in Old and Middle E
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation provides a comprehensive survey of this field covering both theoretical and practical perspectives on pronunciation. In 35 chapters contrib
This collection of posthumous papers by Andrzej Kopcewicz has been chosen to reflect their author's classic works on Irish and American fiction from 1979 to 2005. The collection includes textual analy
In Other Words: Dialogizing Postcoloniality, Race, and Ethnicity is a collection of essays by scholars and Americanists who labor under the conviction that the dynamically evolving field of postcoloni
Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner looks at the role of FFI at higher levels of foreign language learning. It argues that – contrary to a common belief – there are aspects of g
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity provides an introduction and survey of the wide range of perspectives on the relationship between language and creativity. Divided into four sections,
The Scandinavian presence all over Europe during the so-called Viking Age is well documented and England is not an exception. However, the influence of their language on the development of English has
The book examines four Middle English narratives of the Trojan War as examples of the medieval appropriations of classical history and classical narrative traditions as a discourse related to issues o
Dziczek-Karlikowska discusses the phonology of glides and nasals in Polish and English on the basis of evidence coming from spelling and pronunciation errors. She shows how the errors are related to t
This volume is a collection of papers read at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds in 2017, in two sessions organized by the Institute of English Studies at the University of London and four s
By examining semantic changes in English from the 12th century to the 17th century, Crespo demonstrates how the relationship between a term and the concept or external reality to which it refers chang
From a 2013 conference at the University of Murcia in Spain, 14 papers look at language in contact and variation in Middle English, multilingualism and multidialectism; Middle English morphology and s
This fourth volume completes a project to prepare a complete edition of the Ancrene Wisse Group that is uniform in presentation and consistently diplomatic in approach. The parallel text of Sawles War
"The Routledge Companion to English Studies will re-define the discipline of English studies and provide an authoritative overview of this area. This handbook will take account of both historical traj
This book is dedicated to the issue of animal metaphor together with its intricacies and internal complexity. Its main objective is to present a unified picture of the role animal terms have played in
This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Middle English held at Wyzsza Szkola Filologiczna (Philological School of Higher Education) in Wroclaw, Poland, fr
Human cognition is indispensable for any meaningful structure to develop, argues Krawczak (English, Adam Mickiewicz U., Poland), but without the intervention of context it would be a mere potentiality
Variation and variability are the common themes as the 14 selected papers explore the language that came between Old English and Modern English. Among their topics are Middle English annotated corpora
The book aims to show how the tenets of the cognitive theory of metonymy can benefit the lexicographic representation of metonymic lexemes, so that the semantic connections between basic and derived m
This study explores the somewhat neglected area of dramatic genres of early English religious lyric and illuminates the functions of dialogue as an instrument of devotion and cognition in the context
Text type--poetry, prose, translation--has not been considered in historical syntactic studies before, notes Cichosz (U. of Lodz), so she is forging new ground here. She compares patterns of word orde
