Publications
“Two Modern Notes Attached to Earl Rivers’s English Translation of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers”
This short paper makes a concise survey of previous research into Earl Rivers’s English translation of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers and provides our transcription of the notes attached to: one of the John Rylands copies of the Dictes and MS Additional 22718, British Library.
“Negation and Speech Style in Professional American English”
This paper explores various negative constructions in the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English (CSPAE) with a particular focus on their different behaviours in the four settings: White House, Faculty meetings, committee of mathematics and committee of reading.
Yoko Iyeiri & Jennifer Smith (eds.), Studies in Middle and Modern English: Historical Change (Osaka Books, 2014)
We had the second MMECL: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics in Osaka in 2011. This is one of the two volumes of the proceedings of MMECL 2, both published in the series of Studies in the History of the English Language.
Yoshiyuki Nakao & Yoko Iyeiri (eds.), Chaucer’s Language: Cognitive Perspectives (Osaka Books, 2013)
Chaucer’s Language: Cognitive Perspective, which has been edited by Yoshiyuki Nakao and Yoko Iyeiri, includes six papers on Chaucer and cognition written by Japanese Chaucerians and Middle English specialists.