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Periphrasis, replacement and renewal : studies in English historical linguistics /
The contributions to this volume smoothly blend synchronic theory and diachronic investigations, and thus offer novel observations about the historical evolution of the English language from various theoretical angles (such as minimalist theory, formal semantics, recent theories on productivity, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tayne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents; foreword and acknowledgements; introduction
- periphrasis, replacement and renewal; part i
- patterns and models of replacement; what are 'grammatical periphrases'?; morphological productivity as a trigger of the þurfan / need replacement; aspectual loss and renewal; litteral substitution sets in mss of the man of law's tale; part ii
- syntactic and semantic variation and change; syntactic and semantic variation; v-1 main declarative clauses in old english and old high german biblical translations; the grammaticalization of old english whether in the left periphery.
- The loss of lexical case in the history of englishmodal adjectives in the history of english; part iii
- adverbials and particles; adverbials in the history of english; the historical development of no sooner ... than and its semantic changes; a turn of the screw in the semantics of phrasal verbs; part iv
- functional and regional variation in discourse and vocabulary; discourse strategies in margery kempe's descriptions of her pilgrimages; diverging registers of the disciplines medicine and science; white kennett's etymological collections of english words and provincial expressions.