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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Claridge, Claudia, editor.

Bös, Birte, 1974- editor.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, Volume 346.

Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; Volume 346

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar, Historical.

English language.

English language--Morphosyntax.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic verbal constructions, auxiliary variation and evolution, as well as changing word order options. Favouring corpus-linguistic, frequency-based and statistical approaches, the studies are firmly empirically grounded. The book is aimed at scholars interested in the history of the English language and in language variation and change.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Developments in English historical morpho-syntax

ISBN:

9789027203236

9027203237

OCLC:

1083465809