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

ISBN-13: 9783631724811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska

Opis

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".

Spis treści

Middle English prepositions and adverbs with the prefix «be-» in prose texts - «Before, beyond, behind, beneath, between» and «betwixt» - Semantics - Dialectal distribution - Textual distribution - Frequency - Synchronic and diachronic - «Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose» - Conjunction - Grammaticalization - Subjectification.

O autorze

Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland). Her research interests focus on various aspects of English historical linguistics, in particular Old and Middle English semantics, dialectology, morphosyntax and word-formation.