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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Description:	viii, 312 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; volume 198 Studies in language companion series ; v. 198.
Subject:	English language -- Syntax. English language -- Grammar, Historical. English language -- Grammar, Historical. English language -- Syntax.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11687480

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Other authors / contributors:	Cuyckens, H., editor. De Smet, Hendrik, editor. Heyvaert, Liesbet, 1972- editor. Maekelberghe, Charlotte, editor.
ISBN:	9789027201027 9027201021 9789027263841
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax - and the way they develop over time - are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers' cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistic within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition"--
Other form:	Online version: Explorations in English historical syntax Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018] 9789027263841

Table of Contents:

1. Foreword
2. Introduction. Exploring English historical syntax
3. Chapternbsp;1. "Permissive" subjects and the decline of adverbial linking in the history of English
4. Chapternbsp;2. Cognate noun constructions in Early Modern English
5. Chapternbsp;3. On the differential evolution of simple and complex object constructions in English
6. Chapternbsp;4. Finite causative complements in Middle English
7. Chapternbsp;5. Causative make and its infinitival complements in Early Modern English
8. Chapternbsp;6. Semantic and lexical shifts with the " into -causative" construction in American English
9. Chapternbsp;7. Free adjuncts in Late Modern English
10. Chapternbsp;8. Complexity and genre distribution of left-dislocated strings after the fixation of SVO syntax
11. Chapternbsp;9. Why Scotsmen will drown and shall not be saved
12. Chapternbsp;10. A study of Old English dugan
13. Chapternbsp;11. Sequentiality and the emergence of new constructions
14. Index

Explorations in English historical syntax /

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