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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... genre and date of composition 37 3-3 3-4 3-5 3.6 Numerical outline of the second person pronouns 38 The sequence and subcategorisation of Shakespeare's plays 42 Interpretation of the numerical results 45 Comparison of the findings to ...
... genre and date of composition 37 3-3 3-4 3-5 3.6 Numerical outline of the second person pronouns 38 The sequence and subcategorisation of Shakespeare's plays 42 Interpretation of the numerical results 45 Comparison of the findings to ...
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... genre 275 10.3.8 Ye as evidence of authorship in H8 and TNK? 276 10.4 Conclusion 279 CHAPTER 11 Summary and conclusion 283 11.1 The development of thou and you 283 11.2 Prithee and pray you as discourse markers 289 11.3 The development ...
... genre 275 10.3.8 Ye as evidence of authorship in H8 and TNK? 276 10.4 Conclusion 279 CHAPTER 11 Summary and conclusion 283 11.1 The development of thou and you 283 11.2 Prithee and pray you as discourse markers 289 11.3 The development ...
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... genres and registers. Hope notes that the important point here is that during the exponential phase, an early Modern English speaker's frequency of use of 'thou' will be determined by a numb er of factors. We know that in—coming ...
... genres and registers. Hope notes that the important point here is that during the exponential phase, an early Modern English speaker's frequency of use of 'thou' will be determined by a numb er of factors. We know that in—coming ...
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... genres, dates of composition, authorship studies etc. 1.4 Outline of the study While there is an overall structure to the arrangement of chapters in the book leading from primarily quantitative to qualitative corpus investigations of ...
... genres, dates of composition, authorship studies etc. 1.4 Outline of the study While there is an overall structure to the arrangement of chapters in the book leading from primarily quantitative to qualitative corpus investigations of ...
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... genre constraints. 2.6 The concept of markedness Scheler (1982:40 f.) points out that in Shakespeare's time you was the common pronoun of social exchange among the middle classes, but that the final loss of thou, with the exceptions of ...
... genre constraints. 2.6 The concept of markedness Scheler (1982:40 f.) points out that in Shakespeare's time you was the common pronoun of social exchange among the middle classes, but that the final loss of thou, with the exceptions of ...
Contents
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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