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

Contributor(s): Fisiak, Jacek (Editor), Ciszek-Kiliszewska, Ewa (Author)

ISBN: 9783631724811

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Hardcover

$69.35

Pub Date: June 30, 2017

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.69" H x 8.27" L x 5.83" W ( 1.00 lbs) 224 pages

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Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature

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Description:

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».