In:Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns
Ulrich Busse
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 106] 2002
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Published online: 29 November 2002
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.106.toc
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Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgementsxi
Abbreviationsxiii
1. General introduction
2. Previous research on the use of personal pronouns in Early Modern English with special reference to Shakespeare’s plays
3. Thou and you: A quantitative analysis
4. The distribution of thou and you and their variants in verse and prose
5. “A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted / Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion”: Address pronouns in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and other Elizabethan poetry
6. “You beastly knave, know you no reverence?”: The co-occurrence of second person pronouns and nominal forms of address
7. “Prithee no more” vs. “Pray you, chuck, come hither”: Prithee and pray you as discourse markers
8. The role of grammar in the selection of thou or you
9. “In thine own person answer thy abuse”: The use of thy vs. thine
10. “Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye”: The syntactic, pragmatic and social implications of the pronoun ye
11. Summary and conclusion
Appendix: Mitchell’s Corpus of British Drama (1580–1780)
Notes
References
Name index
Subject index
