Historical English syntax /
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1991. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 510 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English linguistics ; 2 Topics in English linguistics ; 2. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216692 |
Table of Contents:
- ""Introduction""; ""Bibliography of Leon Kellner�s writings""; ""Should""; ""On the typological status of Old English""; ""What positions fit in?""; ""Language change typology and some aspects of the SVO development in English""; ""Pronoun and reference in Old English poetry""; ""The rise of the passive infinitive in English""; ""Question-answer sequences in Old English""; ""Between hypotaxis and parataxis. Clauses of reason in Ancrene Wisse""; ""Prepositional phrases expressing adverbs of time from Late Old English to Early Middle English""
- ""Can (could) vs. may (might): regional variation in Early Modern English?""""Locative valency of the English verb: a historical approach""; ""Motivated archaism: the use of affirmative periphrastic do in Early Modern English liturgical prose""; ""Spoken language and the history of do-periphrasis""; ""The be/have variation with intransitives in its crucial phases""; ""Semantic aspects of syntactic change""; ""Subordination and word order change in the history of English""; ""Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English""
- ""Lexical diffusion in syntactic change: frequency as a determinant of linguistic conservatism in the development of negation in English""""On the stylistic basis of syntactic change""; ""Index of technical terms and topics""; ""Index of names""