Explorations in English historical syntax / edited by Hubert Cuyckens, [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuyckens, H., editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; 0165-7763 Volume 198.

Studies in language companion series (SLCS) ; Volume 198

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Syntax.

English language.

English language--Grammar, Historical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Summary:

"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 one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax - and the way they develop over time - are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers' cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistic within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.