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Barrios-Lech_Linguistic_Interaction_Appendix_Five.Docx, Peter G. Barrios-Lech Jun 2016

Barrios-Lech_Linguistic_Interaction_Appendix_Five.Docx, Peter G. Barrios-Lech

Peter Barrios-Lech

Appendix 5, "Supplementary Material for Parts III-IV," Barrios-Lech, P. Linguistic Interaction in Roman Comedy (Cambridge).

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1st_Plural_Hortatory_Subj_Menander_New.Xls, Peter G. Barrios-Lech Dec 2015

1st_Plural_Hortatory_Subj_Menander_New.Xls, Peter G. Barrios-Lech

Peter Barrios-Lech

This is the data for my article, "The First Person Plural Hortatory Subjunctive in New Comedy"

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The First Person Plural "Hortatory" Subjunctive In Plautus And Terence, Peter G. Barrios-Lech Dec 2013

The First Person Plural "Hortatory" Subjunctive In Plautus And Terence, Peter G. Barrios-Lech

Peter Barrios-Lech

ABSTRACT: The article examines some patterns in the distribution of the 1st person plural hortatory subjunctive (e.g. faciamus) in Roman Comedy.

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Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches To Derivational Morphology: A Study Of Speaker Gender And Nominal Suffixes In Early Modern English, Chris C. Palmer Dec 2012

Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches To Derivational Morphology: A Study Of Speaker Gender And Nominal Suffixes In Early Modern English, Chris C. Palmer

Chris C. Palmer

Sociolinguistic variables, such as gender, help nuance historical claims about language change by identifying which subsets of speakers either lead or lag in the use of different linguistic variants. But at present, scholars of historical sociolinguistics have focused primarily on syntax and inflectional morphology, often leaving derivational morphology unexplored. To fill this gap in part, this paper presents a case study of men’s and women’s use of five different nominal suffixes- ‑ness, ‑ity, -age, -ment, and –cion- within the fifteenth and sixteenth century portions of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence. This study finds that men led women in the …

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