Lutzky, Ursula. 2012. Why and what in Early Modern English drama. In: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: a Multi-Dimensional Approach, Hrsg. Markus, Manfred, Iyeiri, Yoko and Heuberger, Reinhard, 177-189. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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This study sheds new light on the nature of the discourse markers why and what in the Early Modern English (EModE) period. It attempts to fill a gap by providing a contrastive analysis of these two markers of similar origin in the drama samples of two EModE corpora – A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English – covering the time span 1500 to 1760. The discourse markers are approached from a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, so as to account for their frequency of attestation as well as their functions, with the aim of reaching a deeper understanding of the potential similarities and differences in their use and development in the course of the EModE period.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Chapter in edited volume |
Language | English |
Title | Why and what in Early Modern English drama |
Title of whole publication | Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: a Multi-Dimensional Approach |
Editor | Markus, Manfred, Iyeiri, Yoko and Heuberger, Reinhard |
Page from | 177 |
Page to | 189 |
Location | Amsterdam |
Publisher | John Benjamins |
Year | 2012 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027274977 |
ISBN | 9789027274977 |
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- Lutzky, Ursula (Details)
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- Institute for English Business Communication IN (Details)
- Research areas (Ă–STAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 6611 Linguistics (Details)
- 6633 Computational linguistics (Details)