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The use of modal expression preference as a marker of style and attribution : the case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English Enchiridion Militis Christiani / Elizabeth Bell Canon.

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The use of modal expression preference as a marker of style and attribution : the case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English Enchiridion Militis Christiani / Elizabeth Bell Canon.
Author
Canon, Elizabeth Bell.
Publication
New York : Peter Lang, c2010.

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vi, 169 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Can an author's preference for expressing modality be quantified and then used as a marker of attribution? This book explores the possibility of using the subjunctive mood as an indicator of style and a marker of authorship in Early Modern English texts. Using three works by the sixteenth-century biblical translator and polemicist, William Tyndale, Elizabeth Bell Canon establishes a predictable preference for certain types of modal expression. The theory of subjunctive use as a marker of attribution was then tested on the anonymous 1533 English translation of Erasmus' Enchiridion Militis Christianai. Also included in the book is a modern English spelling versioN Tyndale's The Parable of the Wicked Mammon. --Book Jacket.
Series Statement
Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics, 0893-6935 ; v. 76
Uniform Title
Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics ; v. 76.
Subject
  • Tyndale, William, -1536
  • Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. > History and criticism
  • Tyndale, William
  • English language > Subjunctive
  • Grammar, Comparative and general > Subjunctive
  • Corpora (Linguistics)
  • Konjunktiv
  • Merkmal
  • Literarischer Stil
  • Autorschaft
  • Korpus <Linguistik>
  • Frühneuenglisch
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Computational analysis of texts -- The history of the subjunctive mood -- William Tyndale, the man -- The Tyndale corpus -- Methodology and data -- Computer analysis -- A test of authorship.
ISBN
  • 9781433108327 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1433108321 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010013289
OCLC
  • 593639231
  • SCSB-12038076
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library