Description

• Title:
  "Mandeville’s Travels" and the study of Middle English word geography: a corpus-based analysis of selected verbs
• Creator:
  Rybińska, Paulina
• Contributor:
  Waniek-Klimczak, Ewa;
  Cichosz, Anna;
  University of Lodz.
• Description:
  Synchronic variability in the area of phonetics, phonology, vocabulary, morphology and syntax is a natural feature of any language, including English. The existence of competing variants is in itself a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also a prerequisite for diachronic changes. This volume is a collection of studies which investigate variability from a contemporary and historical perspective, in both native and non-native varieties of English. The topics include Middle English spelling variation, lexical differences between Middle English dialects, Late Middle and Early Modern English forms of address, Middle English negation patterns, the English used by Polish immigrants living in London, lexical fixedness in native and non-native English used by Polish learners, and the phenomenon of phonetic imitation in Polish learners of English. The book should be of interest to anyone interested in English linguistics, especially English phonetics and phonology as well as history of English, historical dialectology and pragmatics.;
  This paper presents an example of a study that deals with lexical choices in the Middle English period. It aims to first investigate whether the choice of the verbs in the two regionally distinct versions of the Late Middle English book "Mandeville’s Travels" is text-dependent or region-dependent, which would then show to what extent the results of the comparison may be observed in other Middle English texts. In addition, it checks whether the choice of the verbs is influenced by their etymology. This study in progress is hoped to partially contribute both to the field of Middle English word geography and to the examination of the aforementioned text in general.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by Paulina Rybińska, Łódź 2016; © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2016
• Date:
  2016.08.12;
  2016
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  “Variability in English across time and space”, eds. E. Waniek-Klimczak, A. Cichosz, Ser. “Linguistics. Phonetics, Dialectology, Historical Linguistics”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016;
• Identifier:
  P. Rybińska, "Mandeville’s Travels" and the study of Middle English word geography: a corpus-based analysis of selected verbs, [in:] Variability in English across time and space, eds. E. Waniek-Klimczak, A. Cichosz, Ser. “Linguistics. Phonetics, Dialectology, Historical Linguistics”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016, p. 93–120.;
  978-83-8088-065-8;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/19267 ;
  978-83-8088-066-5;
  10.18778/8088-065-8.06
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  text