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benjamins.com>Title: Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus Subtitle: Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 106 Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P_bns_106 Author: Ulrich Busse, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg Hardback: ISBN: 1588112802, Pages: xiv, 344 pp., Price: USD 88.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027253463, Pages: xiv, 344 pp., Price: EUR 88.00 Abstract: This study investigates the morpho-syntactic variability of the second person pronouns in the Shakespeare Corpus, seeking to elucidate the factors that underlie their choice. The major part of the work is devoted to analyzing the variation between you and thou, but it also includes chapters that deal with the variation between thy and thine and between ye and you. Methodologically, the study makes use of descriptive statistics, but incorporates both quantitative and qualitative features, drawing in particular on research methods recently developed within the fields of corpus linguistics, socio-historical linguistics and historical pragmatics. By making comparisons to other corpora on Early Modern English the work does not only contribute to Shakespeare studies, but on a broader scale also to language change by providing new and more detailed insights into the mechanisms that have led to a restructuring of the pronoun paradigm in the Early Modern period. Table of Contents Abbreviations xi-xii General introduction 1-13 Previous research on the use of personal pronouns in Early Modern English with special reference to Shakespeare's plays 15-36 Thou and you: A quantitative analysis 37-61 The distribution of thou and you and their variants in verse and prose 63-81 "A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted / Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion": Address pronouns in Shakespeare's Sonnets and other Elizabethan poetry 83-98 "You beastly knave, know you no reverence?": The co-occurrence of second person pronouns and nominal forms of address 99-186 "Prithee no more" vs. "Pray you, chuck, come hither": Prithee and pray you as discourse markers 187-212 The role of grammar in the selection of thou or you 213-221 "In thine own person answer thy abuse": The use of thy vs. thine 223-248 "Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye": The syntactic, pragmatic and social implications of the pronoun ye 249-279 Summary and conclusion 281-290 Appendix: Mitchell's Corpus of British Drama (1580-1780) 291-293 Notes 295-308 References 309-329 Name index 331 Subject index 333 Lingfield(s): Historical Linguistics Morphology Pragmatics Syntax Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue