Toswell M. Jane, Ishiguro Taro (eds.). Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura

Peter Lang, 2022. — 390 p. — (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 61).The contributors to this volume range throughout the world of medieval English syntax, some considering one construction, some considering one poem or even one syntactic issue in one poem, some considering the development of contrasting syntactic structures over time, some considering the variation among different copies of the same text or the same sets of ideas, some pointing to broader issues of the intersection of syntax and meter or the intersection of syntax and lexicon, and more. 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.