TY - BOOK AU - M. Jane Toswell AU - Ishiguro Taro PY - 2022 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783631866900 TI - Medieval English Syntax T2 - Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura DO - 10.3726/b19563 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1220626 N2 - 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. KW - Syntax, Middle English, Syntax, Old English, Historical Linguistics - English, History of the English Language, Old English verbs LA - English ER -