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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... 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 is much simpler yet more far—reaching: what was their effect on the ...
... 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 is much simpler yet more far—reaching: what was their effect on the ...
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... influence the selection of second person pronouns in Shakespearean drama: Even though the above-mentioned electronic corpora do not concentrate primarily on dramatic texts they provide invaluable databases that allow for comparisons ...
... influence the selection of second person pronouns in Shakespearean drama: Even though the above-mentioned electronic corpora do not concentrate primarily on dramatic texts they provide invaluable databases that allow for comparisons ...
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... influenced by a number of factors “such as features in the phonological environment, the syntactic context, discursive function of the utterance, topic, style, interactional situation or personal or sociodemographic characteristics of ...
... influenced by a number of factors “such as features in the phonological environment, the syntactic context, discursive function of the utterance, topic, style, interactional situation or personal or sociodemographic characteristics of ...
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... influential paper, Brown and Ford (1961) examine the nominal forms of “Address in American English”. They contrast usages of first names/last names and (honorific) titles with the result that in the vast majority of cases first names ...
... influential paper, Brown and Ford (1961) examine the nominal forms of “Address in American English”. They contrast usages of first names/last names and (honorific) titles with the result that in the vast majority of cases first names ...
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... influence of the dramatic genre on pronoun variation will also be investigated. Once the figures for the Shakespeare Corpus have been established, they will be compared to those of other playwrights and also to data from text types ...
... influence of the dramatic genre on pronoun variation will also be investigated. Once the figures for the Shakespeare Corpus have been established, they will be compared to those of other playwrights and also to data from text types ...
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