“Of medicines sedatives”: some notes on adhective position
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“Of medicines sedatives”: some notes on adhective positionAutor(es)
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2009Cita bibliográfica
Moskowich, Isabel. 2009. “Of medicines sedatyues": some notes on adjective position and oral register in Middle Englishmedical texts. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 45/1, 2009, 57-68
Resumen
The position of adjectives in the English Noun Phrase is regarded as something quite fixed and
pertaining to the level of syntax rather than to any other. In previous studies (Moskowich 2002;
Moskowich – Crespo 2002; Lareo – Moskowich 2009), it has been shown, however, that there
seem to be some other extra-syntactic variables at stake determining word-order patterns.
This paper aims at analysing the word-order patterns of adjectives in the emerging scientific
writing in the Middle Ages, particularly in medical texts written in English. To this end,
several texts contained in MEMT (Middle English Medical Texts) will be analysed. As a first
approach, samples belonging to the three different traditions included in the Corpus will be considered.
This examination of samples from a surgical text, a specialised one and a remedy book
will also help obtain some conclusions regarding the evolution in the use of the so called Frenchtype
adjectives in the language.
Palabras clave
English adjectives
Word order
Middle English
Medical texts
Word order
Middle English
Medical texts
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Reconocimiento 4.0 Internacional
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2082-5102