Michiko Ogura, Verbs of motion in Medieval English
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Manfred Markus
Abstract
The author has published widely on syntactic and semantic questions of the English verb, mainly of the Old English period, and the present study accordingly draws on a large number of her previous articles as well as her monograph Verbs in Medieval English (1995). This could be one of the reasons for the book's descriptivism: while the investigation is extremely detailed in the presentation of quotations from a large, non-machine-readable corpus of mainly Old English texts and in the classification of types, it is, in my view, less convincing in its theoretical approach and the use of explanatory parameters. Sometimes the detailed statistics taken from previous work have not sufficiently been functionalised as parts of arguments concerning the language system and/or the history of Old and Middle English.
© 2006 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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