Historical English syntax /
Saved in:
| Corporate Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
1991.
|
| Series: | Topics in English linguistics ;
2. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- ""Introduction""; ""Bibliography of Leon Kellner's writings""; ""Should""; ""On the typological status of Old English""; ""What positions fit in?""; ""Language change typology and some aspects of the SVO development in English""; ""Pronoun and reference in Old English poetry""; ""The rise of the passive infinitive in English""; ""Question-answer sequences in Old English""; ""Between hypotaxis and parataxis. Clauses of reason in Ancrene Wisse""; ""Prepositional phrases expressing adverbs of time from Late Old English to Early Middle English""
- ""Can (could) vs. may (might): regional variation in Early Modern English?""""Locative valency of the English verb: a historical approach""; ""Motivated archaism: the use of affirmative periphrastic do in Early Modern English liturgical prose""; ""Spoken language and the history of do-periphrasis""; ""The be/have variation with intransitives in its crucial phases""; ""Semantic aspects of syntactic change""; ""Subordination and word order change in the history of English""; ""Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English""
- ""Lexical diffusion in syntactic change: frequency as a determinant of linguistic conservatism in the development of negation in English""""On the stylistic basis of syntactic change""; ""Index of technical terms and topics""; ""Index of names""
