Mandeville’s Travels and the study of Middle English word geography: a corpus-based analysis of selected verbs

Paulina Rybińska

doi:10.18778/8088-065-8

Mandeville’s Travels and the study of Middle English word geography: a corpus-based analysis of selected verbs

Paulina Rybińska

University of Łódź

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Variability in English across time and space

Pages: 93-120

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8088-065-8.06

Keywords: English linguistics, diachronic changes in the English language, English phonetics and phonology, historical dialectology, pragmatics

Published: 30 December 2016

Categories: Linguistics, Open Access

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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.

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Rybińska, Paulina. 2016. “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, edited by Ewa Waniek-Klimczak and Anna Cichosz, 93-120. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8088-065-8.06.