Old English Legal Language
The lexical field of theft
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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.
[NOWELE Supplement Series, 15] 1996. 197 pp.
Publishing status: Available | Original publisher:Odense University Press
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. 5
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Typographical Conventions | p. 7
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Abbreviations | pp. 8–10
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The Manuscripts | pp. 11–13
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Introduction | p. 15
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The Legal Corpus and Questions of Method | pp. 17–40
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The Lexical Field of Theft: Lexemes and Distribution | pp. 41–53
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Style, Text Strategy, Syntax, and Theft-lexemes | pp. 54–86
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Collocation Patterns of Theft-lexemes | pp. 87–132
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The Latin Translation Evidence of the Law-codes | pp. 133–145
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Summary and Agenda | pp. 146–158
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Appendix A | pp. 161–164
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Appendix B | pp. 165–168
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Appendix C | pp. 169–175
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Appendix D | pp. 176–177
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Appendix E | pp. 178–179
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Glossary | pp. 180–184
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Bibliography | pp. 185–196
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Quotation Index (Primary Sources) | p. 197
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2AB: Linguistics/English
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General