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Explorations in English historical syntax /

"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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cuyckens, H. (Editor ), De Smet, Hendrik (Editor ), Heyvaert, Liesbet, 1972- (Editor ), Maekelberghe, Charlotte (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Colección:Studies in Language Companion Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.