Historical English syntax /
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
1991.
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| Series: | Topics in English linguistics ;
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| Online Access: | 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 EnglishOn the stylistic basis of syntactic change
- Index of technical terms and topics
- Index of names
