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UNINA9910154329803321 |
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Autore |
Petré Peter |
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Titolo |
Constructions and environments : copular, passive, and related constructions in Old and Middle English |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Collana |
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Oxford Studies in the History of English. Constructions and environments |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Copula - Middle English, 1100-1500 |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Coordinate constructions - Old English, ca. 450-1100 |
English language - Grammar |
Construction grammar |
Languages & Literatures |
Philology & Linguistics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive verb constructions in Old and Middle English. Loss of the high-frequency verb weorðan 'become' is explained as a result of changing word order in narrative during Middle English. The merger of is 'is' and bið 'shall be, is generally' into a single suppletive verb is related to the development of a general analytic future shall benally, the co-occurrence of multiple changes led to become and wax crossing a threshold of similarity with existing copulas, from which they analogically adopted full productivity. |
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