Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax
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| Title: | Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax |
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| Description: | Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic verbal constructions, auxiliary variation and evolution, as well as changing word order options. Favouring corpus-linguistic, frequency-based and statistical approaches, the studies are firmly empirically grounded. The book is aimed at scholars interested in the history of the English language and in language variation and change. |
| Authors: | Claudia Claridge, Birte Bös |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | English language--Morphosyntax, English language--Grammar, Historical |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic verbal constructions, auxiliary variation and evolution, as well as changing word order options. Favouring corpus-linguistic, frequency-based and statistical approaches, the studies are firmly empirically grounded. The book is aimed at scholars interested in the history of the English language and in language variation and change. |
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| ISBN: | 9789027203236 9789027262479 |
