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Author Troberg, Michelle

Title Change of Object Expression in the History of French : Verbs of Helping and Hindering
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Summary This comprehensive case study of a systematic shift in object expression provides insight into the construal of a class of two-place activity verbs in the history of French and proposes that a change in the prepositional system underlies the shift. The book focuses on nineteen verbs of helping and hindering whose single internal object shifts from indirect to direct object during the 15th and 16th century. It describes how these verbs are distinguished from all other verbs that take indirect ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject French language -- Verb
French language -- Etymology.
French language -- Middle French, 1300-1600.
French language -- Direct object
French language -- Indirect object
Language and languages.
French language -- Study and teaching.
French language.
Language
Historical & comparative linguistics.
Linguistics.
Grammar, syntax & morphology.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- French.
Language and languages
French language -- Study and teaching
French language
French language -- Etymology
French language -- Middle French
French language -- Verb
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443850117
144385011X
9781443845670
1443845671