SHELL 2009



The Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics
The 3rd International Conference of
the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics
28th - 30th August 2009, Hiroshima University

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Programme and Abstracts
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Friday 28th August

08:30-12:00

Registration

09:00-09:20

Opening Remarks
Michiko Ogura (Chiba University, Japan)
Yoshiyuki Nakao (Hiroshima University, Japan)

09:30-10:30

Plenary Lecture 1  (Chair: Michiko Ogura)
Prof. Antonette diPaolo Healey (University of Toronto, Canada)
“‘Heat’ in Old English and in Chaucer’s Creation of Metaphors of Love”

Session 1  (Chair: Kazuho Mizuno)

10:30-11:00

Yoko Bando (Hyogo Prefectural Seiryo High School, Japan) “Jane Austen’s Experiment with the Progressive”

11:00-11:30

Ruiko Kawabe (Kyoto University, Graduate School, Japan) “Figurative Gender and Personification in Eighteenth-Century Grammars – Reevaluation in Light of their Role in the National Language Education –”

11:30-12:00

Masayuki Nakao (Hiroshima University, Graduate School, Japan) “A Stylistic Analysis of Dixonary in Vanity Fair

12:00-13:10

Lunch

13:10-14:10

Plenary Lecture 2  (Chair: Michio Hosaka)
Professor Michiko Ogura (Chiba University, Japan)
“Old English Verbs with the Genitive Object – A Doomed Group?”

14:10-14:20

Tea

Session 2  (Chair: Yoko Iyeiri)

14:20-14:50

Ireneusz Kida (University of Silesia, Poland) “On how Norman-French hindered the development of English word order towards VO”

14:50-15:20

Robert D. Stevick (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) “Supplement to ‘Diagramming Noun Phrases in Early English’”

15:20-15:50

John Scahill (Keio University, Japan) “Lexemes and the Law: The Language of an Unpublished Fifteenth-Century Cartulary in Keio University Library”

15:50-16:00

Tea

16:00-18:00

Symposium 1 
Akiyuki Jimura (Chair, Hiroshima University), Akinobu Tani (Hyogo University of Teacher Education), Hideshi Ohno (Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts), Mayumi Sawada (Iwakuni Junior College) and Yoshiyuki Nakao (Commentator, Hiroshima University)

“The Language and Style of Chaucer

18:30-

Conference Banquet


Saturday 29th August

09:00-10:00

Plenary Lecture 3  (Chair: Hideki Watanabe)
Professor Hans Sauer (University of Munich, Germany)
Old English Word-Formation: Constant Features and Changes

Session 3  (Chair: Michiko Ogura )

10:00-10:30

Takuto Watanabe (Osaka University, Graduate School, JapanDevelopment and Grammaticalization of Be About To: An Analysis of the OED Quotations

10:30-11:00

Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (University of Helsinki, Finland) “Preposition + TIME (+ THAT): Exploring Temporal Connectives in Early English”

11:00-11:10

Tea

Session 4  (Chair: Michiko Ogura)

11:10-12:40

Yoshitaka Kozuka (Aichi University of Education, Japan) “Word Order and Collocation in Old English

11:40-12:10

Hironori Suzuki (Daito Bunka University, Japan) “Metrical Influences on the AV/VA Orders in Old English Poetry”

1210-12:40

Hideki Watanabe (Osaka University, Japan) “Grendel’s Approach to Heorot Revisited: Repetition, Equivocation and Anticipation in Beowulf 702b-727

12:40-14:40

Lunch

13:40-14:40

Plenary Lecture 4  (Chair: Yuji Nakao)
Professor Young-Bae Park (Kookmin University, Korea)
“The Origin of Runes: Who, What, When and Where?– Towards further understanding of the English Runic Scripts –”

14:40-14:50

Tea

Session 5 (Chair: John Scahill)

14:50-15:200

Tadashi Kotake (Keio University, Graduate School, Japan) “Farman’s Changing Syntax: A Linguistic and Palaeographical Survey

15:20-15:50

Tomonori Yamamoto (Keio University, Graduate School, Japan) “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”

15:50-16:00

Tea

16:00-18:00

Symposium 2
Masahiro Hori (Chair, Kumamoto Gakuen University), Osamu Imahayashi (Hiroshima University), Tomoji Tabata (Osaka University) and Miyuki Nishio (Kinki University)
“The Dickens Lexicon and its Practical Use for Linguistic Research”

18:00-18:30

Business Meeting


Sunday 30th August

Session 6  (Chair: Hiroshi Yonekura)

09:00-09:30

Akira Okada (Daito Bunka University, Graduate School, Japan) “An analysis of the English negative prefixes in the history of English”

09:30-10:00

Fumiko Yoshikawa (Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan) “Why was the Dative Marker Crossed Out in Corpus Christi College MS 440?

10:00-10:30

Fuyo Osawa (Hosei University, Japan) “What caused transitivisation in the history of English?”

10:30-11:00

Michio Hosaka (Nihon University, Japan) “The Rise of Subordinators in the History of English”

11:00-11:10

Tea

11:10-12:10

Plenary Lecture 5  (Chair: Yoshiyuki Nakao)
Akira Wada, Professor Emeritus (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
“Some Specimens of Divided Usage in Thomas Deloney’s English”

12:10-12:30

Closing Remarks  Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima University, Japan)

13:30-

Conference Excursion to Miyajima Island



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