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Abbreviations
a [date of composition]
Adj adjective
AdjP adjective phrase
Adv adverb
AdvP adverb phrase
BT An Anglo- Saxon dictionary
BTS An Anglo- Saxon dictionary: Supplement
c circa [date of manuscript]
Chaucer, TC Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer, CT The Canterbury Tales
Conj conjunction
EModE Early Modern English (c1500– 1700)
LModE Late Modern English (c1700– 1920)
ME Middle English (c1150– 1500)
MED Middle English dictionary
N noun
NP noun phrase
OE Old English (c650– 1150)
OED Oxford English Dictionary
Part participle
PDE Present- day English (c1920– present)
PP prepositional phrase
Prep preposition
S sentence, clause
s.v. sub verbo
s.v.v. sub verbis
V verb
VP verb phrase
Ø omission of that- complementizer