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This is the second volume of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English held in Warsaw on 12-13 December 2009 and organized by the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management in Lódz (Wyzsza Szkola Przedsiebiorczosci i Zarzadzania). The conference was attended by scholars from Poland, USA, UK, Germany, Austria, Japan, Finland, Italy, Ukraine and Slovenia. Their papers covered a wide range of topics concerning the area of language contact in Old and Middle English from orthography, phonology, morphology and syntax to word semantics.
List of contents
Contents: Elzbieta Adamczyk: The English-Saxon morphological interface: Evidence from the nominal inflection of the West Saxon and Old Saxon Genesis - Anna Antkowiak: Scribal treatment of the (to)-infinitive in the 15th century manuscripts of the three selected tales from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Michael Bilynsky: The expansion of ME shared sense/stem (de)verbal synonyms: Patterns of etymological interchange - Anna Budna: Tracing potential foreign influences on Middle English morphology: The present participle markers -and and -ing - Natalia Filipowicz: Tracing the origins and fates of African fauna vocabulary in Middle English - Anna Hebda: Onde and envy: A diachronic cognitive approach - Joanna Janecka/Anna Wojtys: In the secounde moneth, that other yeer of the goyng of hem out of Egipte - on the replacement of other by second in English - Malgorzata Klos: 'To die' in Early Middle English: Deien, swelten or sterven? - Agnieszka Kocel: Nonpalatalised dorsals in Southumbrian Middle English grammatical words: A Scandinavian influence? - Sylwester Lodej: The non-denotational meaning in the domain of clergy: Pejoration of the lexical fields of PRIEST, BISHOP and POPE in Early Modern English - Janusz Malak: The rise of phrasal verbs in Middle English - a case of indirect syntactic influence on word forms - Franciska Trobevsek Drobnak: Formal marking of the Middle English infinitive in specific grammatical environment.
About the author
Jacek Fisiak is a retired professor and head of the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznä (Poland), and currently head of the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management (Wy¿sza Szko¿a Przedsi¿biorczo¿ci i Zarz¿dzania) in ¿ód¿. 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.
