The semantics of syntactic change : aspects of the evolution of do in English /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stein, Dieter, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 47.
Temas:
Do (The English word)
English language > Syntax.
English language > Semantics.
Do (Le mot anglais)
Anglais (Langue) > Syntaxe.
Anglais (Langue) > Sémantique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Etymology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Do (Vocablo)
Lengua inglesa > Sintaxis
Lengua inglesa > Semántica
Hilfsverb
Sprachwandel
Taalverandering.
Semantiek.
Werkwoorden.
To do (werkwoord)
Engels.
do.
Englisch.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • Chapter One: Introduction
  • 1. Theoretical motivation
  • 2. Why re-study the development of do?
  • 3. Theories and data
  • 4. Heterogeneity of explanatory dimensions
  • 5. Structure of presentation
  • Chapter Two: Do up to the fifteenth century
  • 1. Phases of do development
  • 2. The origin of “meaningless periphrastic doâ€?
  • 3. Do in the Paston letters (1422â€?1509)
  • 4. The democratization of do: a speculation
  • Chapter Three: Do and discourse structure
  • 1. Do as a marker of discourse-semantic prominence
  • 2. Saliency and foregrounding3. Foreground and contrastiveness
  • 4. Local foreground structure markers
  • Chapter Four: Syntax and style in the sixteenth century
  • 1. Do in the sixteenth century: the quantitative problem
  • 2. Standard and prose style
  • 3. Main stylistic currents
  • 4. Relevant stylistic structures
  • 5. Imitating Latin syntax
  • 6. Antithesis
  • Chapter Five: The semantics of do in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
  • 1. Analysis of a pamphlet (1521)
  • 2. Authority
  • 3. Rhetoric and foreground
  • 4. Rhetorical questions
  • 5. Negation6. Intensity
  • 7. Performatives, speech act verbs, and verbs of perception
  • 8. Logical relationships
  • 9. Standardization and synonyms
  • Chapter Six: Unity and diversity: style, dialect and the semantics of do before 1600
  • 1. Use and semantics
  • 2. Syntactic versus semantic explanation
  • 3. Do as a marker of courtly speech
  • 4. Do in low texts
  • 5. The demise of courtly do
  • 6. A case study: Early American letters
  • 7. Semantic, stylistic and dialectal diversity, and German tun
  • 8. Methodological considerations
  • Chapter Seven: Do in the Shakespeare corpus1. An initial hypothesis
  • 1.1. The problem
  • 1.2. The phonotactics and frequency of thou + st
  • 1.3. Methodological advantages of the Shakespeare corpus
  • 2. Subcategorizations and terminological conventions
  • 3. Phonotactics and periphrasis frequency
  • 3.1. Differences between person and tense categories
  • 3.2. Differences between phonetically defined types of verb stems in the present
  • 3.3. Differences between syntactic contexts in the present
  • 3.4. Generalization in the present from thou + you
  • 4. Diachronic interpretation of the synchronic pattern4.1. Analysis of the preterite and diachronic interpretation of the subcategorical pattern
  • 4.2. Stability of the variational pattern
  • 5. Further strategies of avoiding (d)st
  • 6. Negatives
  • Chapter Eight: Do in questions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the statistical evidence
  • 1. Methodological considerations
  • 2. Corpora analyzed
  • 3. From raw data to indices: an example
  • 4. Periphrasis frequency in questions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the evidence

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