Historical English Syntax / / ed. by Dieter Kastovsky.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©1991 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Reprint 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (510 p.) |
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Other title: | 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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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110863314 9783110636895 |
ISSN: | 1434-3452 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110863314 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Dieter Kastovsky. |