A Historical Syntax of English /

A Historical Syntax of English / / Bettelou Los.

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Explores the many factors that influenced syntactic change in EnglishGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748641437','ISBN:9780748641444']);Aimed at advanced students, this book discusses a number of approaches to charting the major developments in the syntax of English. It do...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Los, Bettelou,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2015
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced : ETELAA
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations 26 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Note on data references
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Nominal categories: The loss of nominal morphology
  • 3 Verbal categories: The rise of the auxiliaries have and be
  • 4 Verbal categories: The rise of the modal auxiliaries
  • 5 Complementation
  • 6 The structure of the clause
  • 7 Verb-Second
  • 8 Syntax and discourse
  • Appendix 1 Cynewulf and Cyneheard
  • Appendix 2 Beowulf
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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