Culinary verbs in Middle English

✍ Scribed by Magdalena Bator

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 210
• Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 46
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This study examines the range of culinary verbs found in the English culinary recipes of the 14th and 15th centuries. Altogether over 1500 recipes have been collected and over 100 verbs were selected for the research. They have been divided into three major semantic groups, i.e. verbs of cooking, cutting, and preparing. The analysis comprises such aspects as the origin of the verbs, rivalry of synonyms, context of usage and other criteria.

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