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Part I Plenary Lectures 1 1. Antonette diPaolo Healey (University of Toronto, Canada) 'Heat' in Old English and in Chaucer's Creation of Metaphors of Love 3 2. Hans Sauer (University of Munich, Germany) Old English Word-Formation: Constant Features and Changes 19 3. Young-Bae Park (Kookmin University, Korea) The Older Runic Futhark and the Old English Runes: Towards Further Understanding of the English Runic Scripts 39 4. Michiko Ogura (, ) Old English Verbs with a Genitive Object: A Doomed Group? 55 5. Akira Wada (Professor Emeritus, , Japan) Some Specimens of Divided Usage in Thomas Deloney's English 73

Part II Symposia 91 6. Akiyuki Jimura ( University) Impersonal Constructions and Narrative Structure in Chaucer 93 7. Akinobu Tani (Hyogo University of Teacher Education) Word Pairs or Doublets in Chaucer's Tale ofMelibee and their Variant Readings: A Preliminary Examination 101 8. Hideshi Ohno (Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts) Impersonal and Personal Constructions in the Language of Chaucer 115 9. Mayumi Sawada (Iwakuni Junior College) Infinitival Complementation in Chaucer: The Case of Command 131 10. Yoshiyuki Nakao (Hiroshima University) Chaucer's Ambiguity in Voice 143 11. Osamu Imahayashi (Hiroshima University) Dr Tadao Yamamoto and the Dickens Lexicon Project 159 12. Miyuki Nishio (Kinki University) Definition of Idioms in the Dickens Lexicon 173

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Part III Old English 185 13. Hideki Watanabe (, Japan) Grendel's Approach to Heorot Revisited: Repetition, Equivocation and Anticipation in Beowulf 702b-727 187 14. Hironori Suzuki (Daito Bunka University, Japan) Metrical Influences on the AV/VA Orders in Old English Poetry 199 15. Yoshitaka Kozuka (Aichi University of Education, Japan) Word Order and Collocation in Old English 213 16. Tomonori Yamamoto (, Graduate School, Japan) On the Semantic and Syntactic Development of Periphrastic Modal Verb + Infinitive Constructions in OE: Comparing the Versions of Gregory's Dialogues, the OE Boethius, and Psalter Glosses 225 17. Tadashi Kotake (Keio University, Graduate School, Japan) Farman's Changing Syntax: A Linguistic and Palaeographical Survey 241

Part IV Middle English 257 18. Robert D. Stevick (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Supplement to 'Diagramming Noun Phrases in Early English' 259 19. John Scahill (Keio University, Japan) Lexemes and the Law: The Language of an Unpublished Fifteenth- Century Cartulary in Keio University Library 267 20. Ireneusz Kida (University of Silesia, Poland) On How Norman-French Hindered the Development of English Word Order towards VO 285 21. Fumiko Yoshikawa (Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan) Why was the Dative Marker Crossed Out in Corpus Christi College MS 440? 293

Part V Modern English and the History of English 307 22. Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (University of Helsinki, Finland) Preposition + TIME (+ THAT): Exploring Temporal Connectives in Early English 309 23. Michio Hosaka (Nihon University, Japan) The Rise of Subordinators in the History of English: The Riddle of the Subordinator when 321 Table of Contents ix

24. Fuyo Osawa (, Japan) Ttransitivisation in the History of English 3 31 25. Akira Okada (Daito Bunka University, Graduate School, Japan) The Analyses of the English Negative Prefixes in the History of English 343 25. Takuto Watanabe (Osaka University, Graduate School, Japan) Development and Grammaticalization oí Be About To: An Analysis of the OED Quotations" 353 26. Yoko Bando (Hyogo Prefectural Seiryo High School, Japan) Jane Austen's Experiment with the Progressive 367 27. Ruiko Kawabe (, Graduate School, Japan) Figurative Gender and Personification in 18th-century Grammars: Réévaluation in Light of their Role in the National Language Education 379 28. Masayuki Nakao (Hiroshima University, Graduate School, Japan) A Stylistic Analysis of Dixonary in Vanity Fair 395