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Make peace and take victory : support verb constructions in old English in comparison with old Irish /
This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Odense :
University Press of Southern Denmark,
2012.
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| Colección: | North-Western European language evolution. Supplement ;
v. 24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions may be employed to create periphrastic verbal expressions to denote concepts for which no simple verb exists in the language at that stage. This latter situation may particularly arise as a consequence of contact with new cultural concepts. The approach of the study is both qualitative and quantitati. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027272713 9027272719 |