Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Yanez-Bouza, Nuria

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of approaches to grammatical categories and categorial change, constructions and constructional change, and comparative and typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on the analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of the study of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both theoretically and empirically, from Old English through to the present day. The result is a body of research which will add substantially to the current study of the syntax of the English language, by stimulating further research in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108318037
• Artikelnr.: 62735410

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: analysing English syntax past and present Nuria Yáñez-Bouza,
Emma Moore, Linda van Bergen and Willem B. Hollmann; Part I. Approaches to
Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change: 1. What is special about
pronouns? John Payne; 2. What for? Bas Aarts; 3. Whatever happened to
'whatever'? Dan Mccolm and Graeme Trousdale; 4. Are comparative modals
converging or diverging in English? Different answers from the perspectives
of grammaticalisation and constructionalisation Elizabeth Closs Traugott;
5. The definite article in Old English: evidence from Ælfric's Grammar
Cynthia L. Allen; Part II. Approaches to Constructions and Constructional
Change: 6. How patterns spread: the to-infinitival complement as a case of
diffusional change, or 'To-infinitives, and beyond!' Bettelou Los; 7. 'Me
Liketh/Lotheth' but 'I Loue/Hate': impersonal/non-impersonal boundaries in
old and Middle English Ayumi Miura; 8. 'That's luck, if you ask me': the
rise of an intersubjective comment clause Laurel J. Brinton; 9. Misreading
and language change: a foray into qualitative historical linguistics Sylvia
Adamson; 10. The conjunction and in phrasal and clausal structures in the
Old Bailey Corpus Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg; Part III. Comparative
and Typological Approaches: 11. The role played by analogy in processes of
language change: the case of English have-to compared to Spanish tener-que
Olga Fischer and Hella Olbertz; 12. Modelling step change: the history of
will-verbs in Germanic Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent; 13. Possessives
world-wide: genitive variation in varieties of English Benedikt Heller and
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi; 14. American English: no written standard before the
twentieth century? Christian Mair.