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2.85 and 1.15 respectively, both of which are much smaller than the
critical value at the five percent level (3.84). 6 Thus the situations of
ne/nor and and do not differ to any significant degree depending
upon the three different stages of the development displayed by the
texts of Groups 1, 2, and 3. The employment of and in later ME
seems to be still confined largely to the case where a negative clause
is connected to its preceding positive one, as far as the texts
explored in the present study are concerned. It is a fact, however,
that Jack (1978c: 69) notices the gradually extended use of and in
later ME prose. The following table can be worked out from the data
given by Jack (1978b: 31; 1978c: 68) about the case in which two
negative clauses are conjoined:
iNegative + Negative I early ME I later ME
land I 9 I 128 I
ne 145 244
There exists a clear distinction between the early ME and the later
ME usages. In the case where a negative clause is connected to its
preceding positive one, on the other hand, the situation is not as
straightforward. From the data given by Jack (1978b: 31; 1978c: 67),
the following table may be worked out:
Positive + Ne gative! early ME Iwycliffite sermons I
land I 210 I 457
ne 73 9
Although the employment of and in this syntactic context seems to be
more and more extended by the stage of Wyciliffite sermons (later
ME), as many as 62 of the total of 73 examples of ne/nor in early ME
are according to him attested in the so-called AB language. 7 Outside
the particular texts of the AB language, the employment of and in the
6 For some details of the chi-square test, see note 10 in Chapter
III above.
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