The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution

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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.

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1533 Attribution Canon Case corpus analysis Enchiridion Enchiridion Militis Christiani English English Reformation Erasmus of Rotterdam Expression Expressions Marker Militis Modal

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