1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793514303321

Titolo

Developments in English historical morpho-syntax / / edited by Claudia Claridge, Birte Bös

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

90-272-6247-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 pages)

Collana

Current issues in linguistic theory, Volume 346

Disciplina

420.9

Soggetti

English language - Grammar, Historical

English language - Morphosyntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Claudia Claridge and Birte Bös -- The dynamics of changes in the early English inflection: Evidence from the Old English nominal system / Elzbieta Adamczyk -- 'Subsumed under the dative'? The status of the Old English instrumental / Kirsten Middeke -- 'Thone vpon thother': On pronouns one and other with initial th- and t- in Middle English / Jerzy Nykiel -- Leveraging grammaticalization: The origins of Old Frisian and Old English / Rebecca Colleran -- Old English wolde and sceolde: A semantic and syntactic analysis / Ilse Wischer -- A corpus-based study on the development of dare in Middle English and Early Modern English / Sofia Bemposta Rivas -- Counterfactuality and aktionsart: Predictors for BE vs. HAVE + past participle in Middle English / Judith Huber -- Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen's letters and novels / Nuria Calvo Cortes -- Signs of grammaticalization: Tracking the get-passive through COHA / Sarah Schwarz -- From time-before-place to place-before-time in the history of English: A corpus-based analysis of adverbial clusters / Susanne Chrambach -- Variation and change at the interface of syntax and semantics: Concessive clauses in American English / Ole Schützler -- Further explorations in the grammar of intensifier marking in Modern English / Günter Rohdenburg -- The rivalry between far from being +



predicative item and its counterpart omitting the copula in Modern English / Uwe Vosberg and Günter Rohdenburg -- Index.