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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967330803321

Autore

Wittig Joseph S

Titolo

Will's visions of Piers Plowman, do-well, do-better, and do-best : a lemmatized analysis of the English vocabulary of the A, B, and C versions as presented in the Athlone editions, with supplementary concordances of the Latin and French macaronics / / by Joseph S. Wittig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Athlone Press, 2001

ISBN

9786611291914

9781281291912

1281291919

9781847143617

184714361X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (891 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LanglandWilliam <1330?-1400?.>

Disciplina

821/.1

Soggetti

English language - Middle English, 1100-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Piers Plowman: the three versions."

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; WORDS REPORTED BY LINE REFERENCES ONLY; ABBREVIATIONS; MAIN CONCORDANCE: MIDDLE ENGLISH; LATIN CONCORDANCE; FRENCH CONCORDANCE; APPENDICES

Sommario/riassunto

This is a complete Concordance to the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman in the Athlone Press editions. Each word in the vocabulary of the three versions (approximately 5,400) is listed alphabetically in its order of occurrence within the particular version, in the succession A, B, C. Except for a few words of extremely frequent occurrence such as the definite and indefinite articles, common conjunctions and the personal pronouns (all these are indexed) each occurrence of each word is listed within its line of context. Words of similar spelling are, where called for, lexicographically distingui