A Corpus-driven Analysis of the Early Modern English Recipe Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library: Zooming in on Morphosyntax and Pragmatic Interfaces

Autori

  • Fabio Ciambella Sapienza Università di Roma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/18570

Abstract

 

 This article analyses a corpus of early modern English manuscript recipe books, denoted here as FEMER (Folger Early Modern English Recipes), digitised by volunteers working in the digital resources section at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Chronological and content-related criteria for the selection of the manuscripts analysed here will be provided, along with norms for the modernisation of the texts that was carried out with the aid of VARD2 software. Next, a detailed corpus-driven investigation through #Lancsbox will be presented and quantitative/qualitative data provided. Specific emphasis will be on the most recurring and peculiar morphosyntactic structures, e.g., initial purpose infinitive clauses, of the culinary recipe text-type in early modern English, and their interfaces with pragmatics.

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Pubblicato

2023-12-22

Come citare

Ciambella, F. (2023). A Corpus-driven Analysis of the Early Modern English Recipe Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library: Zooming in on Morphosyntax and Pragmatic Interfaces. Status Quaestionis, (25). https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/18570