The History of the Present English Subjunctive : : A Corpus-based Study of Mood and Modality / / Lilo Moessner.
Traces the development of subjunctive use across the Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English periodsUses descriptive data from parallel corpora of three historical periodsEmploys both synchronic and diachronic analyses to evaluate quantitative and qualitative data Illustrates results u...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The subjunctive in main clauses
- 3 The subjunctive in adjectival relative clauses
- 4 The subjunctive in noun clauses
- 5 The subjunctive in adverbial clauses
- 6 A bird’s eye view of the English subjunctive
- Epilogue: Summary and outlook
- Appendix I: Matrix verbs of Old English object clauses
- Appendix II: Matrix verbs of Middle English object clauses
- Appendix III: Matrix verbs of Early Modern English object clauses
- References
- Name index
- General index