| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 403 pages) |
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Studies in English language |
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Studies in English language.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present; Part I Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change; Chapter 1 What Is Special about Pronouns?; Chapter 2 What For?; Chapter 3 Whatever Happened to Whatever?; Chapter 4 Are Comparative Modals Converging or Diverging in English? Different Answers from the Perspectives of Grammaticalisation and Constructionalisation |
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Chapter 5 The Definite Article in Old English: Evidence from Ælfric's GrammarPart II Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change; Chapter 6 How Patterns Spread: The To-Infinitival Complement as a Case of Diffusional Change, or 'To-Infinitives, and Beyond!'; Chapter 7 Me Liketh/Lotheth but I Loue/Hate: Impersonal/Non-Impersonal Boundaries in Old and Middle English; Chapter 8 That's Luck, If You Ask Me: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment Clause; Chapter 9 Misreading and Language Change: A Foray into Qualitative Historical Linguistics |
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Chapter 10 The Conjunction and in Phrasal and Clausal Structures in the Old Bailey CorpusAppendix; Part III Comparative and Typological Approaches; Chapter 11 The Role Played by Analogy in Processes of Language Change: The Case of English Have-to Compared to Spanish Tener-que; Chapter 12 Modelling Step Change: The History of Will#x84;-Verbs#x84; in Germanic; Chapter 13 Possessives World#x84;-Wide:#x84; Genitive Variation in Varieties of English; Chapter 14 American English: No Written Standard before the Twentieth Century?; References; Index |
| Summary |
A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of approaches to grammatical categories and categorial change, constructions and constructional change, and comparative and typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on the analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of the study of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both theoretically and empirically, from Old English through to the present day. The result is a body of research which will add substantially to the current study of the syntax of the English language, by stimulating further research in the field |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| SUBJECT |
Language and linguistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90000417
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Language and linguistics fast |
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English language -- Syntax.
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English language -- Grammar, Historical.
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English language -- Grammar, Historical
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English language -- Syntax
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yñ̀ez-Bouza, Nuria, editor
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Moore, Emma, 1976- editor.
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Bergen, Linda Van, editor
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Hollmann, Willem B., editor
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Miura, Ayumi, editor
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| ISBN |
9781108303576 |
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1108303579 |
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9781108321754 |
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1108321755 |
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