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.
In a time when female scholars were rare in Japanese universities, Michiko Ogura completed an excellent doctorate in Old English syntax. During her career, she published major works on medieval English syntax. The 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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| Introduction: Michiko Ogura's Friends |
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| Professor Michiko Ogura in "A Fair Field Full of Folk" |
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| Noun Phrase Modification in Medieval Cooking Instructions - Revisited |
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| Periphrastic Verb Constructions in Old English Verse and Lawman's Brut |
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| The Verbal Syntax of (ge)hyran and its Relation to Meaning |
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| The English of the Cloister |
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| Habban + Past Participle of an Intransitive Verb in Old English |
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| Guthlac wende poet he hi oefre gebetan ne mihte: Text Emendation and Expletive Negation |
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| Revisiting EVERY and EACH from Old English to Early Modern English |
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| Sentence-Initial Modals in Old English: Speaker's Intention and Adhortative Power |
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| The Encroachment of the Inflection -est on the Past Subjunctive 2nd Person Singular Forms wolde and sceolde of Old English willan and 'sculan: Syntactic, Morphological and Semantic Variation |
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| Word Order in Old English Interlinear Glosses: A Case Study on the Position of Inserted Pronominal Subjects |
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| On the So-called Genitive Object in Old English |
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| The Pluperfect Forms in the Different Manuscripts of Cursor Mundi |
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| Syntax, Meter, Early Medieval: An Intersectional Approach to Old English erse |
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| Hrothwulf's Time with Hrothgar: sifrkan in Widsith, Lines 45-49 |
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| Syntax and Style in Old English Verse: Binomials and Beowulf |
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| Some Problems of Categorization in Early Middle English |
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| Syntax and Beyond: Binomials in the Apollonius Story as Told by Gower |
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| The Hebrews with Braided Locks: A Note on Wundenlocc (Judith 325) |
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| Old English Syntax, Especially Verbs, in Early Nineteenth Century Primers, Especially Joseph Gwilt |
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| Syntactic and Narrative Significance of the Three Instances of Poet woes god cyning in Beowulf Reconsidered |
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| A Bibliography of Writings by Michiko Ogura |
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| Contributors |
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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 Womans Christian University in Japan, a world-renowned scholar in medieval English syntax.
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