TY - BOOK AU - Imahayashi, Osamu. AU - Nakao, Yoshiyuki. AU - Ogura, Michiko. ED - Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics. TI - Vanity Faie: A Novel Without A Hero T2 - Studies in English medieval language and literature SN - 3631609663 AV - PE25 .A89 2010 U1 - 823.82 PY - 2010/// CY - Frankfurt am Main PB - Peter Lang KW - English philology KW - Congresses KW - English language KW - History KW - English literature KW - History and criticism N1 - "The first international conference was held at Chiba University in 1-3 September 2005, the second one at Nagoya University in 7-9 September 2007, and the third one at Hiroshima University in 28-30 August 2009"--P. [v]; Includes bibliographical references; Part I. Plenary lectures. 'Heat' in Old English and in Chaucer's creation of metaphors of love / Antoinette diPaolo Healey. Old English word-formation : constant features and changes / Hans Sauer. The older runic futhark and the Old English runes : towards further understanding of the English runic scripts / Young-Bae Park. Old English verbs with a genitive object : a doomed group? / Michiko Ogura. Some specimens of divided usage in Thomas Deloney's English / Akira Wada -- Part II. Symposia. Impersonal constructions and narrative structure in Chaucer / Akiyuki Jimura. Word pairs or doublets in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and their variant readings : a preliminary examination / Akinobu Tani. Impersonal and personal constructions in the language of Chaucer / Hideshi Ohno. Infinitival complementation in Chaucer : the case of command / Mayumi Sawada. Chaucer's ambiguity in voice / Yoshiyuki Nakao. Dr. Tadao Yamamoto and the Dickens Lexicon Project / Osamu Imahayashi. Definition of ideoms in the Dickens Lexicon / Miyuki Nishio --; (cont.) Part III. Grendel's approach to Heorot revisited : repetition, equivocation and anticipation in Beowulf 702b-727 / Hideki Watanabe. Metrical influences on the AV/VA orders in Old English poetry / Hironori Suzuki. World order and collocation in Old English / Yoshitaka Kozuka. On the semantic and syntactic development of periphrastic modal verb + infinitive constructions in OE : comparing the versions of Gregory's Dialogues, the OE Boethius, and Psalter Glosses. Farman's changing syntax : a linguistic and palaeographical survey / Tadeshi Kotake -- Part IV. Middle English. Supplement to 'Diagramming noun phrases in Early English' / Robert D. Stevick. Lexemes and the law : the language of an unpublished fifteenth-century cartulary in Keio University Library / John Seahill. On how Norman-French hindered the development of English word order towards VO / Ireneusz Kida. Why was the dative marker crossed out in Corpus Christi College MS 4407? / Fumiko Yoshikawa --; Part V. Modern English and the history of English. Proposition + TIME (+ THAT) : exploring temporal connectives in Early English / Leena Kahlas-Tarkka. The rise of subordinators in the history of English : the riddle of the subordinator when / Michio Hosaka. Transitivisation in the history of English / Fuyo Osawa. The analyses and grammaticalization of be about to : an analysis of the OED quotations / Takuto Watanabe. Jane Austen's experiment with the progressive / Yoko Bando. Figurative gender and personification in 18th-century grammars : reevaluation in light of their role in the national language education / Ruiko Kawabe. A stylistic analysis of Dixonary in Vanity Fair / Masayuki Nakao ER -