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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... 3.5 Interpretation of the numerical results 45 3.6 Comparison of the findings to other corpora 3.6.1 Mitchell's Corpus of British Drama ( 1580-1780 ) 49 15 37 3.6.2 3.6.3 3.6.4 Johnson's Corpus of British Drama and Prose.
... 3.5 Interpretation of the numerical results 45 3.6 Comparison of the findings to other corpora 3.6.1 Mitchell's Corpus of British Drama ( 1580-1780 ) 49 15 37 3.6.2 3.6.3 3.6.4 Johnson's Corpus of British Drama and Prose.
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... Prose ( 1599-1712 ) 52 The Helsinki Corpus ( 1500-1710 ) 55 The Corpus of English Dialogues ( 1560-1720 ) 57 3.7 Conclusion 57 CHAPTER 4 The distribution of thou and you and their variants in verse and prose 4.1 Working hypothesis and ...
... Prose ( 1599-1712 ) 52 The Helsinki Corpus ( 1500-1710 ) 55 The Corpus of English Dialogues ( 1560-1720 ) 57 3.7 Conclusion 57 CHAPTER 4 The distribution of thou and you and their variants in verse and prose 4.1 Working hypothesis and ...
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... prose 275 10.3.7 The importance of date of composition and genre 275 10.3.8 Ye as evidence of authorship in H8 and TNK ? 276 10.4 Conclusion 279 CHAPTER 11 Summary and conclusion 11.1 The development of thou and you 283 11.2 Prithee and ...
... prose 275 10.3.7 The importance of date of composition and genre 275 10.3.8 Ye as evidence of authorship in H8 and TNK ? 276 10.4 Conclusion 279 CHAPTER 11 Summary and conclusion 11.1 The development of thou and you 283 11.2 Prithee and ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 15 |
CHAPTER 3 | 37 |
CHAPTER 4 | 63 |
CHAPTER 5 | 76 |
A womans face with Natures own hand painted Hast thou | 83 |
CHAPTER 6 | 99 |
CHAPTER 7 | 187 |
CHAPTER 8 | 213 |
CHAPTER 10 | 249 |
CHAPTER 11 | 283 |
Mitchells Corpus of British Drama 15801780 | 293 |
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17th century address pronouns adjectives Amsterdam/Philadelphia analysis Brown and Gilman Chapter Claudio Comedies Histories Tragedies context contrast cousin diachronic discourse discourse markers discourse particle distribution drama Early Modern English Elizabethan EModE English examples factors Falstaff forms of address frequent function genre grammatical Histories Tragedies Total husband imperatives instances investigation King knave lady language Leonato lexical liege linguistic lord markedness markers master mistress Nevalainen nominative occur Othello plural politeness pragmatic pray thee pronominal pronoun combined pronoun switching pronoun usage pronouns co-occurring rascal ratio Raumolin-Brunberg relationship rogue Schmidt and Sarrazin second person pronouns Shakespeare Corpus Shakespeare's plays Shakespeare's sonnets singular sirrah sociolinguistic Sonnet 13 sonnets speaker Spevack syntactic Table term of endearment text types thou thy/thine Total T pronoun variation verbs verse and prose villain vocatives vowel wife Y pronouns ye tokens