Old English legal language : the lexical field of theft / J.R. Schwyter.

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Schwyter, J. R

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TextSeries: North-Western European language evolution. Supplement ; ; v. 15.Publication details: Odense : Odense University Press, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789027272812
9027272816

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Old English legal language.DDC classification:

429.5 Sch99o 22

LOC classification:

PE225 .S38 1996eb

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17.59
17.84
18.04
18.05

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Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.

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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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