Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura
In a time when female scholars were rare in Japanese universities, Michiko Ogura completed an excellent doctorate in Old English syntax, then achieved a position at Chiba University, from which she obtained a year-long research fellowship in 1983-84 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. During her career, Ogura has published major works on medieval English syntax, especially verbs. Professor Ogura retired at Chiba, then obtained a major research post at Keio University (2011-2015) and then a post at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, retiring in 2020. She obtained a D.Litt. from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland in 2008. The international contributors to this volume offer these studies of medieval syntax in her honor, in token of many years of friendship and scholarship.

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Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura
In a time when female scholars were rare in Japanese universities, Michiko Ogura completed an excellent doctorate in Old English syntax, then achieved a position at Chiba University, from which she obtained a year-long research fellowship in 1983-84 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. During her career, Ogura has published major works on medieval English syntax, especially verbs. Professor Ogura retired at Chiba, then obtained a major research post at Keio University (2011-2015) and then a post at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, retiring in 2020. She obtained a D.Litt. from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland in 2008. The international contributors to this volume offer these studies of medieval syntax in her honor, in token of many years of friendship and scholarship.

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Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura

Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura

Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura

Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura

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In a time when female scholars were rare in Japanese universities, Michiko Ogura completed an excellent doctorate in Old English syntax, then achieved a position at Chiba University, from which she obtained a year-long research fellowship in 1983-84 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. During her career, Ogura has published major works on medieval English syntax, especially verbs. Professor Ogura retired at Chiba, then obtained a major research post at Keio University (2011-2015) and then a post at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, retiring in 2020. She obtained a D.Litt. from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland in 2008. The international contributors to this volume offer these studies of medieval syntax in her honor, in token of many years of friendship and scholarship.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783631868959
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 04/28/2022
Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature , #61
Pages: 392
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

M. Jane Toswell is professor of English at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

Taro Ishiguro is professor of English at the School of Commerce, Meiji University, in Tokyo.

Michiko Ogura, the honorand of this Festschrift, was professor of English at Chiba University, Keio University, and Tokyo Woman‘s Christian University in Japan, a world-renowned scholar in medieval English syntax.

Table of Contents

Michiko Ogura – Old English syntax – historical linguistics – history of Old English – Old English verbs

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