David Denison

English Historical Syntax (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Brings together many of the resources needed for the exploration of English historical syntax and deals with the important changes in English sentence structure from old English to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317887683
• Artikelnr.: 41067425

Autorenporträt

David Denison

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I: Groundwork
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Nominal Morphology
Part II: Word Order
4. Word Order
Part III: Subject and Verb Phrase
5. Impersonals
6. Dative Movement and the Indirect Passive
Part IV: Complex Complementation
8. VOSI and V+I (control verbs)
9. Subject raising
Part V: Auxiliaries
10. Origins of Periphrastic DO
11. Modals and Related Auxiliaries
12. Perfect
13. Progressive
14. Passive
15. Multiple auxiliaries, regulation of DO
Part VI: Bibliography and Indexes
Abbreviations
16. Glossary of technical terms
17. Secondary sources
18. Primary sources
19. Index of verbs in examples