Middle English Prepositions and Adverbs with the Prefix «be-» in Prose Texts A Study in Their Semantics, Dialectology and Frequency |
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| Author:
| Ciszek-Kiliszewska, Ewa |
| Series title: | Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-3-631-72482-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2017 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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The book is a study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs with the prefix «be-» in prose texts. «Before, beyond, behind, beneath, between» and «betwixt» are analysed for the semantics, textual and dialectal distribution and frequency, synchronic and diachronic. The study draws on full texts from the «Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose».
The book is a study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs with the prefix «be-» in prose texts. «Before, beyond, behind, beneath, between» and «betwixt» are analysed for the semantics, textual and dialectal distribution and frequency, synchronic and diachronic. The study draws on full texts from the «Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose».