Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronounsThis study investigates the morpho-syntactic variability of the second person pronouns in the Shakespeare Corpus, seeking to elucidate the factors that underlie their choice. The major part of the work is devoted to analyzing the variation between you and thou, but it also includes chapters that deal with the variation between thy and thine and between ye and you. Methodologically, the study makes use of descriptive statistics, but incorporates both quantitative and qualitative features, drawing in particular on research methods recently developed within the fields of corpus linguistics, socio-historical linguistics and historical pragmatics. By making comparisons to other corpora on Early Modern English the work does not only contribute to Shakespeare studies, but on a broader scale also to language change by providing new and more detailed insights into the mechanisms that have led to a restructuring of the pronoun paradigm in the Early Modern period. |
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... King Henry The Fourth King Henry The Fifth The First Part of King Henry The Sixth The Second Part of King Henry The Sixth The Third Part of King Henry The Sixth King Henry The Eighth Hamlet Julius Caesar King John A Lover's Complaint ...
... King Henry The Fourth King Henry The Fifth The First Part of King Henry The Sixth The Second Part of King Henry The Sixth The Third Part of King Henry The Sixth King Henry The Eighth Hamlet Julius Caesar King John A Lover's Complaint ...
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... King Iames Bible (the Authorized Version) of 1611 are the dominating influences: Dominate, that is, from a linguistic point of view. The question of their literary brilliance and significance is not an issue for this book. Our question ...
... King Iames Bible (the Authorized Version) of 1611 are the dominating influences: Dominate, that is, from a linguistic point of view. The question of their literary brilliance and significance is not an issue for this book. Our question ...
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... King: Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? Hamlet: At supper. King: At supper? where? Hamlet: Not where he eats, but where 'a is eaten; a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat ...
... King: Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? Hamlet: At supper. King: At supper? where? Hamlet: Not where he eats, but where 'a is eaten; a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat ...
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... known example of apostrophe: (22) Edmund: Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law / My services are bound (LR 1, 2, 1_2) Another example from LR is King Lear's invocation of the. 34 Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus.
... known example of apostrophe: (22) Edmund: Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law / My services are bound (LR 1, 2, 1_2) Another example from LR is King Lear's invocation of the. 34 Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus.
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... King Lear's invocation of the elements in his soliloquy during the storm on the heath: (23) Lear: Let the great gods ... King Richard: I had forgot myself, am I not king? / Awake, thou coward majesty! thou sleepest. (R2 3, 2, 83—84) (26) ...
... King Lear's invocation of the elements in his soliloquy during the storm on the heath: (23) Lear: Let the great gods ... King Richard: I had forgot myself, am I not king? / Awake, thou coward majesty! thou sleepest. (R2 3, 2, 83—84) (26) ...
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Chapter 4 The distribution of thou and you and their variants in verse and prose | 63 |
Chapter 5 A womans face with Natures own hand painted Hast thou the master mistress of my passion | 83 |
Chapter 6 You beastly knave know you no reverence? | 99 |
Chapter 7 Prithee no more vs Pray you chuck come hither | 187 |
Chapter 8 The role of grammar in the selection of thou or you | 213 |
Chapter 10 Stand sir and throw us that you have about ye | 249 |
Chapter 11 Summary and conclusion | 283 |
Notes | 297 |
References | 311 |
Name index | 333 |
Subject index | 337 |
The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES | 340 |
Chapter 9 In thine own person answer thy abuse | 223 |
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16th century 17th century address pronouns adjectives analysis blank verse Brown and Gilman Chapter Claudio co-occurring confirmed context cousin diachronic discourse discourse markers discourse particle distribution drama Elizabethan EModE English examples factors Falstaff figures final find findings first five forms of address free variation frequent function genre grammatical husband imperatives influence instances King knave lady language Leonato lexical liege linguistic lord markedness markers mistress Nevalainen nominative occur ofthe Othello plural politeness pragmatic pray thee prithee pronominal pronoun combined Comedies pronoun switching pronoun usage pronoun Y pronoun pronouns co—occurring rogue Schmidt and Sarrazin second person pronouns Shakespeare Corpus Shakespeare’s plays significant singular sirrah sociolinguistic Sonnet 13 sonnets speaker Spevack syntactic Table term of endearment text types thine thou Total Tragedies variation verbs verse and prose vocatives vowel ye tokens