Constructions and environments : copular, passive, and related constructions in Old and Middle English
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Disciplina: | 427/.02 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | PetrâePeter |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Constructions and environments : copular, passive, and related constructions in Old and Middle English |
| ISBN: | 0-19-937341-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154329803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Oxford studies in the history of English.