Christian and Related Terms Used in Interlinear Glosses in the Old English Period

ISBN-13: 9783631884430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 1094 str.

Michiko Ogura

Opis

This monograph presents Old English renderings of Christian words found in interlinear glosses, especially the Gospels and the Psalter glosses. Nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs in biblical contexts are included through dialectal (Northumbrian, Mercian, and West Saxon) diachronic (early and late West Saxon) and idiolectal (i.e. scribal) comparison.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction, 1. MacGillvray (1902) and Wiesenekker (1991), 2. Terms for Lord, God and Christ, 3. Major Christian Terms found in Interlinear Glosses, 4. Lexicalisation of 'Christian' Expressions, 5. Miscellanies, Conclusion, Appendices A, B and C.

O autorze

Michiko Ogura is professor emeritus, Chiba University, Japan. Her special field of study is Old and Middle English syntax and word study. Her noteworthy publications include Verbs in Medieval English (1996), Verbs of Motion in Medieval English (2002), and Periphrases in Medieval English (2018).