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Categoriality in language change : the case of the English gerund / Lauren Fonteyn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fonteyn, Lauren, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Gerund.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Other Title:
- Categoriality in Language Change
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- This study presents an elaborate attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes 'noun'/'nominal' and 'verb'/'clause.'
- Contents:
- Transcategorial shift
- The English gerund
- Reference types
- Discourse function
- Conceptual (in)dependence and the diachronic nominalization of ing-forms.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 14, 2019).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-091759-8
- 0-19-091760-1
- 0-19-091758-X
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