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Evidence for morphological restructuring in the second person pronoun in early English correspondence
(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2007) Rutkowska, Hanna
The focus of this article is morphosyntactic. Its aim is to provide evidence for a particular type of syntactic reanalysis which is likely to have contributed to the establishment of you as a universal form of the second person pronoun in both subject and oblique positions. The paper discusses structures containing verbs such as PRAY and BESEECH. My analysis shows that the confusion between the imperative and subjunctive moods, frequent in these constructions, is a plausible explanation for the weakening of the case distinction and the spread of the you form to the subject position in the sentence.
Selected orthographic features in English editions of the Book of good maners (1487-1507)
(Sociedad Espanola de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa Medieval, 2005) Rutkowska, Hanna
In this paper I discuss the results of my research on the orthography in selected late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century books printed in English. I compare the spelling systems of three printers: William Caxton, Richard Pynson and Wynkyn de Worde as apparent in several editions of Caxton’s translation of Le livre de bonnes moeurs, published in 1487 as the Book of good maners.