Inside Old English : Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell.

John Walmsley studied English Language and Literature at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and General Linguistics, and History of Education, at Edinburgh and Durham respectively. He held teaching posts at Hamburg University and St Mary's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before being appointed Professor of...

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Author / Creator: Walmsley, John.
Other Authors / Creators:Mitchell, Bruce.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Williston : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2006.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Bruce Mitchell -- Introduction -- 1 Eight Notes on the Beowulf Text -- 2 A Point Well Taken: Manuscript Punctuation and Old English Poems -- 3 The Incomparable Wryness of Old English Poetry -- 4 Straining Words and Striving Voices: Polysemy and Ambiguity and the Importance of Context in the Disclosure of Meaning -- 5 "Eala, geferan and gode wyrhtan": On Interjections in Old English -- 6 Speaking One's Mind in The Wanderer -- 7 Wulfstan's Scandinavian Loanword Usage: An Aspect of the Linguistic Situation in the Late Old English Danelaw -- 8 An Aspect of Old English Poetic Diction: The Postpositioning of Prepositions -- 9 Issues for Editors of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in Manuscript Form -- 10 Language and Style in Two Anonymous Old English Easter Homilies -- 11 Latin Influence on an Old English Idiom: "To Wit" -- 12 Germanic *uargaz (OE wearh) and the Finnish Evidence -- 13 How the Leopard Got its Spots: English Grammatical Categories, Latin Terms -- A Bibliography of Writings by Bruce Mitchell 1956-2004 -- Select Bibliography -- List of Editions Used -- Index of Names -- Index of Old English Words and Phrases -- Index of Subjects. 
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