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Old English legal language : the lexical field of theft /
This corpus-based study examines the lexical field of theft in the Anglo-Saxon law-codes and documents containing reports of lawsuits (charters, writs, and some chapters of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). The individual Old English lexemes are analysed not only in terms of their meaning, collocation pat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Odense :
Odense University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | North-Western European language evolution. Supplement ;
v. 15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This corpus-based study examines the lexical field of theft in the Anglo-Saxon law-codes and documents containing reports of lawsuits (charters, writs, and some chapters of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). The individual Old English lexemes are analysed not only in terms of their meaning, collocation patterns, and Latin translations, but also, more unusually in a field-approach, with reference to their distribution over the various textual genres and the discourse strategies dominant in these. Although primarily linguistic in focus, a detailed description of the theft-offences and the wider context in which they occur should also be of interest to the historian. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027272812 9027272816 |
| ISSN: | 0900-8675 ; |