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Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures
How long can you go without a verb?
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Douglas Biber
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Addresses vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- Two types of passivization of ‘V+NP+P’ constructions in relation to idiomatization 9
- On the development of a friend of mine 23
- Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures 43
- Grammaticalization versus lexicalization reconsidered 67
- The derivation of ornative, locative, ablative, privative and reversative verbs in English 99
- From gold-gifa to chimney sweep ? 111
- A path to volitional modality 131
- Is it, stylewise or otherwise, wise to use - wise ? 157
- The loss of the indefinite pronoun man 181
- The progressive in Older Scots 203
- Detransitivization in the history of English from a semantic perspective 231
- Morphology recycled 255
- Name index 283
- Subject index 289
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Addresses vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- Two types of passivization of ‘V+NP+P’ constructions in relation to idiomatization 9
- On the development of a friend of mine 23
- Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures 43
- Grammaticalization versus lexicalization reconsidered 67
- The derivation of ornative, locative, ablative, privative and reversative verbs in English 99
- From gold-gifa to chimney sweep ? 111
- A path to volitional modality 131
- Is it, stylewise or otherwise, wise to use - wise ? 157
- The loss of the indefinite pronoun man 181
- The progressive in Older Scots 203
- Detransitivization in the history of English from a semantic perspective 231
- Morphology recycled 255
- Name index 283
- Subject index 289
