TY - BOOK AU - Stein,Dieter TI - The Semantics of Syntactic Change: Aspects of the Evolution of 'do' in English T2 - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , SN - 9783110112832 AV - PE1317.D6 S75 1990 U1 - 422 20 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Anglais (Langue) KW - Syntaxe KW - Sémantique KW - Englisch KW - Do (Le mot anglais) KW - Do (The English word) KW - English language KW - Semantics KW - Syntax KW - Geschichte KW - Hilfsverb KW - Sprachwandel KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - I-IV --; Preface --; List of abbreviations --; Chapter One Introduction --; Chapter Two Do up to the fifteenth century --; Chapter Three Do and discourse structure --; Chapter Four Syntax and style in the sixteenth century --; Chapter Five The semantics of do in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries --; Chapter Six Unity and diversity: style, dialect and the semantics of do before 1600 --; Chapter Seven Do in the Shakespeare Corpus --; Chapter Eight Do in questions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: The statistical evidence --; Chapter Nine The mechanics of generalization --; Chapter Ten Third singular morphology and syntax --; Chapter Eleven Subjunctive --; Chapter Twelve Wh questions --; Chapter Thirteen Natural and social aspects --; Conclusion --; Appendix 1 --; Appendix 2 --; Appendix 3 (Chapters 7 & 8) --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; 445-446; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110846829 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110846829 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110846829/original ER -