Tudor and Stuart England and the Significance of Adjectives : A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Modification, Gender Perspectives and Mutual Information Regarding Titles of Social Rank Used in Tudor and Stuart England

Tudor and Stuart England and the Significance of Adjectives : A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Modification, Gender Perspectives and Mutual Information Regarding Titles of Social Rank Used in Tudor and Stuart England

The aim of the present study has been to investigate how titles of social rank used in Tudor and Stuart England are modified by attributive adjectives in pre-adjacent position and the implications that become possible to observe. Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS) the p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vikström, Niclas
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen 2015
Subjects:
Historical sociolinguistics
corpus linguistics
variationist theory
Renaissance English
Late Middle and Early Modern English
titles of social rank
Tudor and Stuart England
the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS)
adjectival modification
semantic domains
collocations
type/token ratios
gender
mutual information.
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik
Specific Languages
Studier av enskilda språk
Languages and Literature
Språk och litteratur
Humanities and the Arts
Humaniora och konst
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