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The Use of Modal Expression Preference As a Marker of Style and Attribution - 9781433108327

Un libro in lingua di Canon Elizabeth Bell edito da Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2010

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Focusing on the works of 16th-century scholar and translator, William Tyndale, Canon (linguistics, U. of Wisconsin at La Crosse) presents a corpus study examining the hypothesis that quantified preferences for particular varieties of modal expression in Early Modern English texts can serve as a method of stylometric authorship attribution. An overview of computer-based corpus linguistic methodologies is followed by an account of the subjunctive mood's Indo-European origins and subsequent development in the Germanic language family, including Early Modern English. A biographical sketch of Tyndale precedes a description of the corpus, which consists of Tyndale's The Parable of the Wicked Mammon, (1528), The Obedience of a Christian Man, (1528), and The Practice of the Prelates, (1530). In the initial phase of the study, Canon analyzes the Tyndale corpus and other Early Modern English period texts, confirming the conditional clause as the environment in which subjunctive forms most frequently occur. Phase 2 of the study identifies four methods of subjunctive expression within the conditional clauses. The Tyndale corpus is then checked against the comparison corpus, revealing Tyndale's signature, period-atypical preference for the modal preterite subjunctive over modal auxiliaries. With Tyndale's "subjunctive fingerprint" in hand, Canon turns her concordancer to an anonymous English translation of Desiderius Erasmus's Enchiridion Militis Christiani--widely presumed to have been translated by Tyndale. Included in the three appendices is the full text of Tyndale's The Parable of the Wicked Mammon. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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