Judith Huber

Motion and the English Verb

A Diachronic Study

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Produktbeschreibung

Motion and the English Verb offers an extensive study of motion encoding in medieval English, including an investigation of the range of verbs occurring in the medieval English intransitive motion construction and an analysis of which verbs and structures are employed most frequently in talking about motion. On this basis, it analyses the various cognitive and contact-linguistic aspects of the integration of "typologically different" French loan verbs expressing path of motion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 175mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780190657802
• ISBN-10: 0190657804
• Artikelnr.: 47870599

Autorenporträt

Judith Huber is assistant professor in English linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nÿrnberg (FAU). She studied English and Romance linguistics and literature in Hamburg and Munich, and was previously lecturer in English linguistics at the Catholic University of EichstÃtt-Ingolstadt and at LMU Munich. Her main fields of interest are processes of language change and language contact, in particular with respect to English historical lexicology and syntax.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations
* Chapter 1. Introduction
* Chapter 2. Theoretical framework
* Chapter 3. Problems with historical data
* Chapter 4. Talking about motion in medieval English: aims, material,
and method
* Chapter 5. Talking about MOTION in Old English
* Chapter 6. Talking about motion in Middle English
* Chapter 7. Latin and medieval French in the motion verb typology
* Chapter 8. Borrowed PATH verbs in Middle English: preliminary
considerations
* Chapter 9. Borrowed PATH verbs in Middle English
* Chapter 10. General Conclusion
* Appendix C
* References