Foundattion and Appearance of Alliterative Structures in The Base Mannscmpt of the Vssion of Pers Plowman The B Text

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Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.15.17 is one of the most important base manuscripts of William Langland's Piers Plowman : The B-Text on which A.V.C. Schmidt and George Kane and E.T. Donaldson edited their editions. This alliterative poem has allegorical expressions and was written against religious and social backgrounds.1.Editing a diplomatic text of MS B. 15.17Editing a diplomatic text of MS B. 15.17 is very important because Schmidt's edition and Kane-Donaldson's edition are different from the MS itself.2.Distribution of alliterative words and their frequency Piers Plowman : The B-Text contains alliterative words with high alliterative value and those with low alliterative value. It should be pointed out that function words are used as alliterative words and that words of the Old French origin are used as alliterative words.3.Distribution of alliterative patterns and their frequencyThe most frequent allterative pattern used in Piers Plowman : The B-Text is aaAx, which is the normal pattern in Middle English alliterative poetry. The rate of aaAx is 70.3% that of aaaAx is 8.2%, and that of aaAa is 7.57%.