LEADER 02858oam 2200625zu 450 001 9910154329803321 005 20230120065228.0 010 $a0-19-937341-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000223274 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001334207 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12490633 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001334207 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11394055 035 $a(PQKB)11483074 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000437387 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4842387 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7033709 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7033709 035 $a(OCoLC)967266885 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000223274 100 $a20160829d2014 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConstructions and environments : copular, passive, and related constructions in Old and Middle English 210 1$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 225 0 $aOxford Studies in the History of English. Constructions and environments 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-19-937339-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $aThis monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive verb constructions in Old and Middle English. Loss of the high-frequency verb weoršan 'become' is explained as a result of changing word order in narrative during Middle English. The merger of is 'is' and biš 'shall be, is generally' into a single suppletive verb is related to the development of a general analytic future shall benally, the co-occurrence of multiple changes led to become and wax crossing a threshold of similarity with existing copulas, from which they analogically adopted full productivity. 410 0$aOxford studies in the history of English. 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xCopula$yMiddle English, 1100-1500 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xCoordinate constructions$yOld English, ca. 450-1100 606 $aEnglish language$xGrammar 606 $aConstruction grammar 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aPhilology & Linguistics$2HILCC 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xCopula 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xCoordinate constructions 615 0$aEnglish language$xGrammar. 615 0$aConstruction grammar. 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aPhilology & Linguistics 676 $a427/.02 700 $aPetré$b Peter$01853798 702 $aPetrāe$b Peter 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154329803321 996 $aConstructions and environments : copular, passive, and related constructions in Old and Middle English$94450485 997 $aUNINA