Eugene Green
eugreen@bu.edu
Professor; Education: B.A., M.A., Ohio State University; Ph.D., Michigan 

Teaching and Research Interests: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Studies, Linguistic and Semiotic Approaches to Literature. 

Selected Publications: "Habban and the Second Participle in Old English Poetry," International Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Semiotics 8 (2003), 191-242; Anglo-Saxon Audiences (2001); "On habban and second participle in Old English Poetry," Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis (2003); "Civic Voices in Beast Tables: The Owl and the Nightingale; The Nun's Priest's Tale. AUMLA; "Seeking and Breaking Silence in Middle English," Studies in the History of the English Language III.


Work in Progress: A Personal History of the English Language; "Misreading as Introit to Book II of Troilus and Criseyde," New Chaucer Society (talk, 2006)

Honors, Grants, and Awards: Fulbright Lecturer (1981), American Philosophical Society Award (1977), ACLS Grant-in-Aid (1975), and NEH Summer Stipend (1974) for Names of the Land.

Other Professional Activities: talk on toddlers' speech and chimpanzees' signing, Conference of Culture and Language, University of Hawaii (2004); talk on "Gricean Pragmatics and Invoking or Breaking Silence," 14th International Conference on the History of the English Language, Bergamo, Italy, August 23, 2006.; talk on "Demotic Dispersion of Borrowings," International Conference on the Historical Linguistics, August 8, 2007; talk on "Compounds of the Romantic Period," Workshop on Language Literature of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Leiden, August 29, 2007; talk on "The Verb weorðan in Old and Middle English," Roundtable of Germanic Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, April 6, 2006.