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Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax
Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic verbal constructions, auxiliary variation and evolution, as well as changing word order options. Favouring corpus-linguistic, frequency-based and statistical approaches, the studies are firmly empirically grounded. The book is aimed at scholars interested in the history of the English language and in language variation and change.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 346] 2019. vi, 312 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 20 May 2019
Published online on 20 May 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- IntroductionClaudia Claridge and Birte Bös | pp. 1–8
- The dynamics of changes in the early English inflection: Evidence from the Old English nominal systemElzbieta Adamczyk | pp. 9–34
- “Subsumed under the dative”? The status of the Old English instrumentalKirsten Middeke | pp. 35–56
- ‘Thone vpon thother’: On pronouns one and other with initial th- and t- in Middle EnglishJerzy Nykiel | pp. 57–76
- Leveraging grammaticalization: The origins of Old Frisian and Old EnglishRebecca Colleran | pp. 77–110
- Old English wolde and sceolde: A semantic and syntactic analysisIlse Wischer | pp. 111–128
- A corpus-based study on the development of dare in Middle English and Early Modern EnglishSofia Bemposta-Rivas | pp. 129–148
- Counterfactuality and aktionsart: Predictors for BE vs. HAVE + past participle in Middle EnglishJudith Huber | pp. 149–174
- Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novelsNuria Calvo Cortes | pp. 175–198
- Signs of grammaticalization: Tracking the get-passive through COHASarah Schwarz | pp. 199–222
- From time-before-place to place-before-time in the history of English: A corpus-based analysis of adverbial clustersSusanne Chrambach | pp. 223–246
- Variation and change at the interface of syntax and semantics: Concessive clauses in American EnglishOle Schützler | pp. 247–268
- Further explorations in the grammar of intensifier marking in Modern EnglishGünter Rohdenburg | pp. 269–286
- The rivalry between far from being + predicative item and its counterpart omitting the copula in Modern EnglishUwe Vosberg and Günter Rohdenburg | pp. 287–308
- Index | pp. 309–312
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