Historical English Syntax / / ed. by Dieter Kastovsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, John,; Breivik, Leiv Egil,; Colman, Fran,; Danchev, Andrei,; Diller, Hans-Jürgen,; Fischer, Olga,; Fries, Udo,; Jucker, Andreas H.,; Kastovsky, Dieter,; Kniezsa, Veronika,; Kytö, Merja,; Minkova, Donka,; Mukhin, Anatolij M.,; Nevalainen, Terttu,; Rissanen, Matti,; Rydén, Mats,; Stein, Dieter,; Stockwell, Robert P.,; Swan, Toril,; Tottie, Gunnel,; Wright, Susan M.,; Yulikova, Natalya M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kastovsky, Dieter,
• 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] , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (510 p.)
• 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
• 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.