Lexical Doublets (Binomials) in Sermons from Late Medieval England

Authors

• Siegfried Wenzel University of Pennsylvania

DOI: https://doi.org/10.51814/nm.103427

Keywords:

sermons; bilingual; doublets;

Abstract

The article examines the use of synonymous binomials in sermons produced in England in the fifteenth century. It discusses sermons in English, Latin, and macaronic. English and macaronic sermons use such binomials for rhetorical ornamentation; Latin ones do so too, though to a lesser extent.