Oxford Studies in the History of English – serie
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Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction
A Corpus-Assisted Approach
Inbunden, 2020
1543 kr
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Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative. These reports further a narrative, make it more interesting, natural, and vivid, ask the reader to engage with it, and reflect historical cultural understandings of modes of discourse …
Language Between Description and Prescription
Verbs and Verb Categories in Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English
Inbunden, 2016
3021 kr
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Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative study of nineteenth-century English grammar writing, and of nineteenth-century language change. Based on 258 grammar books from Britain and North America, the book investigates whether grammar writers of the …
Motion and the English Verb
A Diachronic Study
Av Judith Huber
Inbunden, 2017
2547 kr
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In Motion and the English Verb, a study of the expression of motion in medieval English, Judith Huber provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English, and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early English. Huber demonstrates how …
Categoriality in Language Change
The Case of the English Gerund
Inbunden, 2019
2375 kr
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This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes noun/nominal and verb/clause. In English, speakers have different options to refer to an event, ranging from that-clauses (That he had guessed her …
Speech Representation in the History of English
Topics and Approaches
Av Peter J. Grund, Terry Walker
Inbunden, 2021
2547 kr
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Representing what someone else has said is an integral part of spoken and written communication. Speech representation occurs in many contexts from news reports and legal trials to everyday conversation. Although commonplace, it requires sophisticated choices regarding what to represent and how to …
Constructions and Environments
Copular, Passive, and Related Constructions in Old and Middle English
Av Peter Petré
Inbunden, 2014
1950 kr
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This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive verb constructions in Old and Middle English. The mysterious loss of the high-frequency verb weorthan 'become' is explained as a casualty of changing word order in narrative during Middle English. The merger …
The Early English Impersonal Construction
An Analysis of Verbal and Constructional Meaning
Inbunden, 2012
2234 kr
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The Early English Impersonal Construction aims to demonstrate that an understanding of the functional and semantic aspects of impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English can shed light on questions that remain about these verbs today. The impersonal construction has been a topic of extensive …
Spreading Patterns
Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation
Inbunden, 2013
2045 kr
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Spreading Change: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation examines the emergence and spread of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day. The three types of complements are subject-controlled gerund complements (1), for...to-infinitives (2), …
Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English
Av Anneli Meurman-Solin, Maria Jose Lopez-Couso m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2045 kr
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Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a wide range of features in the evolution of English syntax and grammars of prose in long diachrony. Its unifying …
Middle English Verbs of Emotion and Impersonal Constructions
Verb Meaning and Syntax in Diachrony
Av Ayumi Miura
Inbunden, 2015
1512 kr
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Impersonal constructions in the history of English form a puzzling category, in that there has been uncertainty as to why some verbs are attested in such constructions while others are not, even though they look almost synonymous. In this book, Ayumi Miura tackles this under-discussed question with …
