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

Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska

ISBN 10: 3631724810 / ISBN 13: 9783631724811

Verlag: Peter Lang, 2017

Beschreibung

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783631724811

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Middle English Prepositions and Adverbs with the Prefix «be-» in Prose Texts : A Study in Their Semantics, Dialectology and Frequency
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3631724810
• ISBN-13: 9783631724811
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 153 H x 17 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 153 mm, Tiefe: 17 mm
• Gewicht: 413 Gramm

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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