%0 Book
%A Elizabeth Bell Canon
%D 2011
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781453900345
%T The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution
%B The Case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English "Enchiridion Militis Christiani</I>
%R 10.3726/978-1-4539-0034-5
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050928
%X Can an author’s preference for expressing modality be quantified and then used as a marker of attribution? This book explores the possibility of using the subjunctive mood as an indicator of style and a marker of authorship in Early Modern English texts. Using three works by the sixteenth-century biblical translator and polemicist, William Tyndale, Elizabeth Bell Canon establishes a predictable preference for certain types of modal expression. The theory of subjunctive use as a marker of attribution was then tested on the anonymous 1533 English translation of Erasmus’ Enchiridion Militis Christiani. Also included in this book is a modern English spelling version Tyndale’s The Parable of the Wicked Mammon.
%K corpus analysis, Enchiridion Militis Christiani, Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Obedience of a Christian Man, The Parable of the Wicked Mammon, subjunctive mood, William Tyndale, English Reformation, The Practice of Prelates
%G English