Aspects of Medieval English Language and Literature

Michiko Ogura is Professor of English at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan. Her special field are Old and Middle English syntax and word studies. Her publications includes Words and Expressions of Emotion in Medieval English (2013) and Periphrases in Medieval English (2018).Hans Sauer is Emeritus Professor of English at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. His research interests and publications include editions and studies of Medieval texts, word-formation, glosses, glossaries and lexicography, plant names, Beowulf, interjections, binomials, and the history of linguistics and English studies.

• Researches vary: word order between auxiliary verbs and main verbs in Old English poetry, simple verbs and periphrases, uses of personal and demonstrative pronouns, words of cooking, weaving, and words meaning ‘people’, word-formation in glosses, a proposal of a new Old English corpus, etc.