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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ronan, Patricia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark, 2012.
Colección:North-Western European language evolution. Supplement ; v. 24.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Make Peace and Take Victory: Support Verb Constructions in Old English in Comparison with Old Irish; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; TABLES; ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 AIM OF THE INVESTIGATION; 1.2 TYPES OF MULTI-WORD VERBS; 1.2.1 PREPOSITIONAL VERBS; 1.2.2 PHRASAL VERBS; 1.2.3 PHRASAL-PREPOSITIONAL VERBS; 1.2.4 SUMMARY; 1.2.5 SUPPORT VERB CONSTRUCTIONS; 1.2.5.1 STRUCTURE; 1.2.5.2 SYNTAX; 1.2.5.3 FUNCTION; 1.2.5.4 SUMMARY; 1.2.6 VERB
  • ADJECTIVE COMBINATIONS; 1.2.7 VERB
  • VERB COMBINATIONS
  • 1.2.8 RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SUPPORT VERBS, IDIOMS AND COLLOCATIONS1.2.9 SUMMARY; 1.3 FUNCTION WORDS IN EARLY INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; 1.4 OLD AND MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN; 1.5 SUPPORT VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN MODERN ENGLISH; 1.6 THEORETICAL MODELS USED IN THE APPROACH; 1.6.1 GRAMMATICALISATION; 1.6.2 PRINCIPLES IN LANGUAGE CONTACT; 1.6.3 ASPECTUAL CATEGORIES; 1.7 SUMMARY; 2 SUPPORT VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN OLD ENGLISH; 2.1 PREVIOUS RESEARCH ON SUPPORT VERB CONSTRUC-TIONS IN EARLY ENGLISH; 2.2 DATA AND METHOD; 2.2.1 METHOD; 2.2.2 DATA; 2.3 CONTENT OF THE INVESTIGATION; 2.3.1 OLD ENGLISH DON
  • 2.3.1.1 DON IN OLD ENGLISH2.3.1.2 EXCURSUS: THE POST-OLD ENGLISH DEVELOPMENTS OF DO SUPPORT; 2.3.2 OLD ENGLISH GEWYRCAN; 2.3.3 OLD ENGLISH FREMMAN; 2.3.4 OLD ENGLISH MACIAN; 2.3.5 OLD ENGLISH HABBAN; 2.3.6 OLD ENGLISH SELLAN; 2.3.7 OLD ENGLISH BÆLAN; 2.3.8 OLD ENGLISH BERAN; 2.3.9 OLD ENGLISH GIEFAN; 2.3.10 OLD ENGLISH NIMAN; 2.3.11 OLD ENGLISH TACAN; 2.4 ASPECTUAL SUPPORT VERBS WITH INFINITIVES; 2.4.1 OLD ENGLISH ONFŌN; 2.4.2 OLD ENGLISH ONGINNAN; 2.4.3 OLD ENGLISH BEGINNAN; 2.4.4 OLD ENGLISH (GE-)WUNIAN; 2.4.5 OLD ENGLISH BLINNAN; 2.4.6 OLD ENGLISH SWlCAN
  • 2.5 STRUCTURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH DATA2.5.1 NUMBERS AND FREQUENCY OF ATTESTATION; 2.5.2 SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF OLD ENGLISH SUPPORT VERBS; 2.5.3 PREPOSITIONAL STRUCTURES IN OLD ENGLISH SUPPORT VERBS; 2.5.4 DISTRIBUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD ENGLISH SUPPORT VERBS; 2.6 DISCUSSION OF THE OLD ENGLISH DATA; 2.6.1 THE DATA IN THE CORPUS; 2.6.2 FREQUENCY OF THE CORPUS DATA; 2.6.3 GRAMMATICALISATION OF THE SUPPORT VERB CONSTRUCTIONS; 2.6.4 VARIABILITY OF THE STRUCTURE; 2.6.5 LANGUAGE CONTACT IN EARLY ENGLISH; 2.6.6 STATUS AND RELEVANCE OF SUPPORT VERB CONSTRUC-TIONS IN OLD ENGLISH; 2.7 SUMMARY
  • 3 SUPPORT VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN OLD IRISH3.1 PREVIOUS RESEARCH ON SUPPORT VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN OLD IRISH; 3.2 DATA AND METHOD; 3.2.1 METHOD; 3.2.2 DATA; 3.3 THE OLD IRISH SUPPORT VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE CORPUS; 3.3.1 DO-BEIR 'GIVES' IN THE OLD IRISH CORPUS; 3.3.2 DO-GNÍ 'DOES, MAKES' IN THE OLD IRISH CORPUS; 3.3.3 GAIBID 'TAKES, TAKES TO, UTTERS' IN THE OLD IRISH CORPUS; 3.3.4 CON-ICC 'IS ABLE' IN OLD IRISH; 3.3.5 IMFOLNGI 'CAUSES' IN THE OLD IRISH CORPUS; 3.3.6 FO-CEIRD 'PUTS' IN THE OLD IRISH CORPUS; 3.3.7 BERID 'BRINGS' IN THE OLD IRISH CORPUS