Historical English Syntax
1st Edition
Published on 21. November 2011
VIII, 510 pages
978-3-11-086331-4 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2012
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
80 Abbildungen
80 ill.
File size
15,16 MB
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978-3-11-086331-4 (9783110863314)
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Dieter Kastovsky
Historical English Syntax
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Historical English Syntax
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Bibliography of Leon Kellner's writings
- Should
- On the typological status of Old English
- What positions fit in?
- Language change typology and some aspects of the SVO development in English
- Pronoun and reference in Old English poetry
- The rise of the passive infinitive in English
- Question-answer sequences in Old English
- Between hypotaxis and parataxis. Clauses of reason in Ancrene Wisse
- Prepositional phrases expressing adverbs of time from Late Old English to Early Middle English
- Can (could) vs. may (might): regional variation in Early Modern English?
- Locative valency of the English verb: a historical approach
- Motivated archaism: the use of affirmative periphrastic do in Early Modern English liturgical prose
- Spoken language and the history of do-periphrasis
- The be/have variation with intransitives in its crucial phases
- Semantic aspects of syntactic change
- Subordination and word order change in the history of English
- Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English
- Lexical diffusion in syntactic change: frequency as a determinant of linguistic conservatism in the development of negation in English
- On the stylistic basis of syntactic change
- Index of technical terms and topics
- Index of names
