A specialist in medieval English syntax and word study, Ogura (English, Keio U., Tokyo) offers a diachronic survey of words and expression of emotion in connection with their syntactic and
stylistic environments. She covers lexical variety and supersession, synonyms in some semantic fields of emotion, God’s love the Seven Deadly Sins, and impersonal and reflexive constructions.
The examples are in Old or Middle English, most of them followed by Modern English translation. There is no index. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
