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Ayumi Miura

Address: School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL

Email: ayumi.miura [at] postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

PhD Title: Verbs of emotion and impersonals in Old and Middle English: A diachronic study in the syntax-semantics interface (provisional title; funded by ORS)

Supervisors: Prof. David Denison and Dr Nuria Yáñez-Bouza

Main Discipline Areas

• English Language

Research Interests

• History of the English language
• Old English
• Middle English

Publications

• 2009. Juliana 329b-30a Revisited: Apo Koinou or Not? Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 24, 1-19.
• 2008. Beowulf 2334a ealond utan: On the validity of Mitchell and Robinson's reading. In Matsuji Tajima & Nobuko Suematsu (eds.), A collection of research notes on the history of the English language, 61-5. Tokyo: Kaibunsha. [in Japanese]
• 2008. New impersonal verbs in some late fourteenth-century English texts. In Masachiyo Amano, Michiko Ogura & Masayuki Ohkado (eds.), Historical Englishes in varieties of texts and contexts: The Global COE Program, International Conference 2007 (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 22), 187-200. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
• 2007. Looking back on the recently published introductions to the history of English language. The Bulletin of the Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English Language, 25-36. [in Japanese]
• 2007. The impersonal verb remembren in Chaucer revisited. Language and Information Sciences 5, 213-28.
• 2006. The impersonal verb listen in Chaucer's works: Implications of its textual distribution. LEXICON 36, 24-40.

Conference presentations

• "Middle English verbs of fear: What lexicographical evidence can(not) reveal about their impersonal usage." Langwidge Sandwidge seminar. 4 May 2010. University of Manchester.
• "HEL Publications for the Past Two Years and Beyond."  A paper session held at The University of Tokyo, Japan. 16 September 2007. [in Japanese]
• "Mistakes or Inventions?: Newly Employed Impersonal Verbs in Late Fourteenth-Century English."  SHELL 2007. 8 September 2007. Nagoya University, Japan.
• "The Impersonal Verb remembren in Chaucer Revisited." The 16th Conference of The Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English Language. 23 September 2006. Kyoto University, Japan. [in Japanese]
• "The Impersonal Verb listen in Chaucer's Works." The 21st Conference of The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies. 4 December 2005. University of Tsukuba, Japan. [in Japanese]
• "On Impersonal Constructions in Chaucer." The 12th Conference of The Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English Language. 25 September 2004. Kyushu University, Japan. [in Japanese]

Membership of Professional Organisations

• The English Literary Society of Japan [since 2003]
• Iwasaki Linguistic Circle [since 2003]
• The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies [since 2003]
• The Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English Language [since 2003]
• Tokyo Metropolitan University Society for Medieval English Language and Literature [since 2003]
• The East Branch of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies [since 2005]
• The West Branch of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies [since 2005]
• Modern English Association [since 2007]
• TOEBI (Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland) [since 2008]

Teaching Areas

I have worked as the Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course 'Introduction to the History of the English Language'.

Professional biography

April 2005 to March 2008
Doctoral Course, Department of Language and Information Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan

April 2003 to March 2005 (MA)
Department of Language and Information Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan

April 1999 to March 2003 (BA)
English Studies, Department of European and American Studies I, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

Other information

Please also see http://manchester.academia.edu/AyumiMiura for more information and updates.