Explorations in English historical syntax /
"The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2018.
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series (SLCS),
v. 198 |
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Table of Contents:
- Exploring English historical syntax / Hubert Cuyckens
- "Permissive" subjects and the decline of adverbial linking in the history of English / Bettelou Los
- Cognate noun constructions in Early Modern English: The case of Tyndale's New Testament / Nikolaos Lavidas
- On the differential evolution of simple and complex object constructions in English / Günter Rohdenburg
- Finite causative complements in Middle English / Brian Lowrey
- Causative make and its infinitival complements in Early Modern English / Yoko Iyeiri
- Semantic and lexical shifts with the "into-causative" construction in American English / Mark Davies and Jong-Bok Kim
- Free adjuncts in Late Modern English: A corpus-based study / Carla Bouzada Jabois
- Complexity and genre distribution of left-dislocated strings after the fixation of SVO syntax / David Tizón-Couto
- Why Scotsmen will drown and shall not be saved: The historical development of will and shall in Older Scots / Christine Elsweiler
- A study of Old English dugan: Its potential for auxiliation / Kousuke Kaita
- Sequentiality and the emergence of new constructions: That's the bottom line is (that) in American English / Reijirou Shibasaki.