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Shooter " — Well then, I am the shooter. " (LLL IV. 1) Collector thus gets the reading 'habitual', while baker gets the reading 'professional'. In a very general sense, both these factors, lexicalisation and knowledge of the world, contribute to the context of such a derivative. There is, of course, also the immediate syntactic context, the importance of which becomes evident from the Shakespearean example (1 b). Here we lack a certain amount of shared knowledge of the world and thus have to fall back on the immediate linguistic context in order to be able to interpret a formation correctly.
Vices and virtues = Vices and virtues 1888 Edited by Ferdinand Holthausen. London (EETS): Oxford University Press. Early Modern English Behn = "The history of the nun" [by Aphra Behn] in: Restoration prose fiction 1666 — 1700 1970 Edited by Charles Mish. Lincoln, Nebraska. Caxton = The book of the knight of the tower 1971 Edited by Μ. Y. Offord. London (EETS): Oxford University Press. Chinon = The famous historie of Chinon of England by Christopher Middleton 1925 Edited by W. E. Mead. London. E.
Yet V2 still operates in one fifth of all clauses with initial non-sentence adverbials (almost 40 percent if we exclude initial subclauses). As our examples show, Early Modern English has remarkable freedom as to the selection of V2 after initial adverbials. As far as style/genre is concerned, it is at this point too early to say anything definite. Chinon, a romantic dramatic tale, and T. Lever's Sermons have high proportions of inversion, which might suggest that this type of word order is characteristic of the rhetorical style.
