Functional and semantic development of the Middle English lexeme milde (Based on the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse)

Abstract

This article focuses on the features of the functional and semantic development of the Middle English adjective milde, which in the studied period was a means of moral and ethical evaluation. Middle English written monuments of the XII–XV centuries both religious and secular serve as the material of the study.

Keywords

• middle english
• lexis of the moral-ethical sphere
• corpus based approach in linguistics