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Eugene Green
eugreen@bu.edu
Professor. 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: “The Infix [-ev-] and Initial Accent on Yiddish Verbs,” The Field of Yiddish, 6th Collection. “Habban and the Second Participle in Old English Poetry,” International Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Semiotics 8 (2003); Anglo-Saxon Audiences (2001); “Civic Voices in Beast Fables: 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: Give and Take in English Through Time -- A Study in Pragmatics, a proposal for a textbook in preparation for the University of Edinburgh Press. Work in progress includes one chapter completed and six outlined.
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 “Grecian Pragmatics and Invoking or Breaking Silence,” 14th International Conference on the History of the English Language, Bergamo, Italy (2006); talk on “Demotic Dispersion of Borrowings,” International Conference on the Historical Linguistics (2007); talk on “Compounds of the Romantic Period,” Workshop on Language and Literature of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Leiden (2007); talk on “The Verb weordan in Old and Middle English,” Roundtable of Germanic Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley (2006). “Synonymy and Obsolescence: the Example of Old English “weorthan.” Studies in the History of the English Language -6, Banff, Alberta (2009).
Conference at Boston University, 2011: The International Society for the Linguistics of English has elected, after a presentation I gave in Freiburg, Germany, to hold its second conference on campus, June 17-21, 2011.