On the Development of Borrowed Connectives in Fourteenth-Century English: Evidence from Corpora
- Author / Editor
- Rissanen, Matti.
On the Development of Borrowed Connectives in Fourteenth-Century English: Evidence from Corpora
- Published
- Ursula Schaefer, ed. The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 133-46.
- Description
- Rissanen analyzes the "grammaticalization" of several related conjunctions (because, in case, save, except) that suggest a complicated model of standardization. Popular texts such as Chaucer's CT may have had as much influence on standardization as administrative documents had.
- Alternative Title
- Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.