Constructions and environments : copular, passive, and related constructions in Old and Middle English / Peter Petré.
This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive verb constructions in Old and Middle English. Loss of the high-frequency verb weorðan 'become' is explained as a result of changing word order in narrative during Middle English. The merger of is ...
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| Accès en ligne: | Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Langue: | English |
| Publié: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2014. |
| Collection: | Oxford studies in the history of English.
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Table des matières:
- Environmental linguistics
- In dialogue with previous studies
- Theory and method
- The past tense
- The present tense
- Copularization of becume and weaxe
- Evaluation of the results.