Historical English Syntax

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Historical English Syntax

Edited by: Dieter Kastovsky

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1991

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Volume 2 | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

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Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Linguistics, other

i-vi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Introduction Dieter Kastovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Bibliography of Leon Kellner’s writings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Should John Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
On the typological status of Old English Leiv Egil Breivik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
What positions fit in? Fran Colman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
Language change typology and some aspects of the SVO development in English Andrei Danchev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
Pronoun and reference in Old English poetry Hans-Jürgen Diller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
The rise of the passive infinitive in English Olga Fischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
Question-answer sequences in Old English Udo Fries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
Between hypotaxis and parataxis. Clauses of reason in Ancrene Wisse Andreas H. Jucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
Prepositional phrases expressing adverbs of time from Late Old English to Early Middle English Veronika Kniezsa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
Can (could) vs. may (might): regional variation in Early Modern English? Merja Kytö Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
Locative valency of the English verb: a historical approach Anatolij M. Mukhin and Natalya M. Yulikova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Motivated archaism: the use of affirmative periphrastic do in Early Modern English liturgical prose Terttu Nevalainen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
Spoken language and the history of do-periphrasis Matti Rissanen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
The be/have variation with intransitives in its crucial phases Mats Rydén Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Semantic aspects of syntactic change Dieter Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355
Subordination and word order change in the history of English Robert P. Stockwell and Donka Minkova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	367
Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English Toril Swan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	409
Lexical diffusion in syntactic change: frequency as a determinant of linguistic conservatism in the development of negation in English Gunnel Tottie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	439
On the stylistic basis of syntactic change Susan M. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	469
Index of technical terms and topics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	493
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	501
511-512 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	511

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eBook published on:

November 21, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110863314

Hardcover published on:

February 1, 1991

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110124316

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Reprint 2012

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Front matter:

8

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510

Illustrations:

80

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863314

eBook ISBN: 9783110863314

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110124316

Keywords for this book

Englisch; Historische Syntax; Kongress; Liechtenstein

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