“To Lerne Sciences Touching Nombres and Proporciouns”: The Proportion of Affixation in Early Scientific Writing

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This paper explores how affixation worked in English scientific discourse in the late Middle Ages, before the scientific revolution. The period studied(late Middle English) coincides with the beginning of the vernacularisation of science so that derivational morphology mechanisms of lexicon enlargement are still being tested.

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