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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962252603321

Autore

Busse Ulrich

Titolo

Linguistic variation in the Shakespeare corpus : morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns / / Ulrich Busse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002

ISBN

9786612160967

9781282160965

1282160966

9789027296191

9027296197

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; v. 106

Classificazione

HF 275

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Pronoun

English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Variation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-331) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 General introduction -- Chapter 2 Previous research on the use of personal pronouns in EarlyModern English... -- Chapter 3 Thou and you -- Appendix -- Chapter 4 The distribution of thou and you and their variants in verse and prose -- Appendix -- Chapter 5 "A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted / Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion" -- Chapter 6 "You beastly knave, know you no reverence?" -- Chapter 7 "Prithee no more" vs. "Pray you, chuck, come hither" -- Chapter 8 The role of grammar in the selection of thou or you -- Chapter 9 "In thine own person answer thy abuse" -- Chapter 10 "Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye" -- Appendix -- Chapter 11 Summary and conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Sommario/riassunto

This 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.