In a time when female scholars were rare in Japanese universities, Michiko Ogura completed an excellent doctorate in Old English syntax. During her career, she published major works on medieval English syntax. The contributors to this volume offer these studies of medieval syntax in her honor, in token of many years of friendship and scholarship.

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M. Jane Toswell is professor of English at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

Taro Ishiguro is professor of English at the School of Commerce, Meiji University, in Tokyo.

Michiko Ogura, the honorand of this Festschrift, was professor of English at Chiba University, Keio University, and Tokyo Woman's Christian University in Japan, a world-renowned scholar in medieval English syntax.

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Michiko Ogura - Old English syntax - historical linguistics - history of Old English - Old English verbs