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Middle English Prepositions and Adverbs with the Prefix «Be-» in Prose Texts: A Study in Their Semantics, Dialectology and Frequency

Middle English Prepositions and Adverbs with the Prefix «Be-» in Prose Texts: A Study in Their Semantics, Dialectology and Frequency

Ciszek-Kiliszewska, Ewa
Fisiak, Jacek

Hardcover

Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, Book 50

GermanItalianLinguistics

ISBN10: 3631724810
ISBN13: 9783631724811
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jun 30 2017
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book offers the first comprehensive study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs combining the prefix be- with a preposition, an adverb or a numeral recorded in prose texts. Six best established lexemes, i.e., before, beyond, behind, beneath, between and betwixt are analysed. The investigated aspects include the semantics of the prepositions and adverbs, their dialectal and textual distribution as well as their frequency of use viewed both from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The study draws on the linguistic data retrieved from a collection of specially selected complete prose texts from the Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose . The description of the obtained results is enhanced with numerous tables and figures.

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