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Historical English Syntax / ed. by Dieter Kastovsky.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 2Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1991Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (510 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110124316
  • 9783110863314
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425 20
LOC classification:
  • PE1361 .H57 1991
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-vi -- Contents -- 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 -- 511-512
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i-vi -- Contents -- 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 -- 511-512

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