Binomials in Late Middle English to Early Modern English
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Binomials in Late Middle English to Early Modern English

Style, Frequency and Etymology

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eBook - ePub

Binomials in Late Middle English to Early Modern English

Style, Frequency and Etymology

About this book

This book charts the development of style and lexicon in the English language from Late Middle English to Early Modern English through the analysis of binomials across a wide range of texts and genres.

The volume elucidates the forms, functions, and origins of binomials, otherwise understood as word pairs, such as "safe and sound, " as they manifest in representative prose texts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and in the Helsinki Corpus from the fourteenth through to the early eighteenth centuries. The book begins with cross-comparative analyses of binomials, examining their frequency, etymological makeup, and repetition in prose texts including Chaucer and Malory to explore the stylistic characteristics of each text, toward zooming out to examine their development in texts across different genres, from political to philosophical to legal texts, in the Helsinki Corpus. In charting binomial development over both time and text type, the volume offers readers a unique historical perspective into the evolution of phraseology from Late Middle English through to Early Modern English and in turn, a solid foundation for future research on lexical development in the English language.

This book will be of interest to scholars in English historical linguistics, English stylistics, English corpus linguistics, and English lexicology.

Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Abbreviations
  12. 1 Introduction
  13. 2 A Preliminary Survey of Binomials in Chaucer’s Prose Texts
  14. 3 Binomials in Caxton’s Translations: Paris and Vienne and the History of Reynard the Fox
  15. 4 Binomials in a Chronicle and the “Chronicle Style”: The Brut and Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
  16. 5 Binomials in Political and Philosophical Texts: On the Governance of England and On the Properties of Things
  17. 6 Binomials in Religious Texts: The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ and the English Wycliffite Sermons
  18. 7 Binomials in Epistolary and Legal Documents: The Signet Letters of Henry V and the Paston Letters and Papers
  19. 8 Grouping and Comparison of Texts Using Statistical Analyses of Binomials
  20. 9 Motivations for the Use of Binomials (1): Evidence from Chaucer’s and Caxton’s Translations
  21. 10 Motivations for the Use of Binomials (2): Evidence from a Comparison of Binomials between Chaucer’s Verse and Prose
  22. 11 Historical Development of Binomials from 1350 to 1710 across Text Types in the Helsinki Corpus
  23. 12 Conclusion
  24. References
  25. Index