volume:
7 (2006)
author:
Alexandra Fodor
title:
A corpus study of and as a subordinating conjunction from Middle English to Early Modern English
keywords:
Middle English, Early Modern English, conditional, subordinator, diachronic, diatopic, genre, Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English/Early Modern English
abstract:
This article intends to examine the occurrence of the conditional subordinator and (‘if’) in Middle English and Early Modern English prose texts. The principal target is to prove that and functioning as a conditional subordinator was in fact not an unusual phenomenon and should thus not be neglected when analysing conditional constructions in the given periods (from ME1 to E3 — in accordance with the distribution of the Helsinki Corpus). Besides the diachronic examination, diatopic as well as genre peculiarities are also considered.
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