Böcker i Muenchener Universitaetsschriften-serien

Fact and Fiction

Including both synchronic and diachronic approaches, the essays pay tribute to one of Hans Sauer's main specialist fields, namely English lexicography and lexicology. This title includes contents of the articles that ranges from insights into lexicographical projects to glimpses into the work of eminent philologists.

Highlights the creative use of Old English models in both manuscripts and disprove the hypothesised close link between the Otho Brut and the romance genre. This study of the lexical fields 'hero', 'warrior' and 'knight' in the Brut chronicle investigates the backward orientation of the Caligula Brut towards Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry.

This survey is a linguistic analysis of the morphological shapes and structures, the semantics and the etymological history of the Old English complex plant names. Their analysis requires the interplay of various disciplines, for instance word-formation, structural and cognitive semantics, contact linguistics, botany, and socio-cultural history.