The Construction of the Accusative with Infinitive in English
Author : Jacob Zeitlin
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Jacob Zeitlin
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Marinel Gerritsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110886049
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Edward Adolf Sonnenschein
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Page : 206 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 1916
Category : English language
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Author : Bettelou Los
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2005-01-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0199274762
This book describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English. It shows that to + infinitive emerged from a reanalysis of the preposition to plus a deverbal nominalization, which spread first to purpose clauses, then to other nonfinite environments. The book challenges the traditional reasoning that infinitives must have been nouns in Old English because they inflected for dative case and can follow prepositions. Dr Los shows that as earlyas Old English the to-infinitive was established in most of the environments in which it is found today. She argues that its spread was largely due to competition with subjunctive that-clauses, which it gradually replaced.Later chapters consider Middle English developments. The author provides a measured evaluation of the evidence that to undergoes a period of degrammaticalization. She concludes that the extent to which to gains syntactic freedom in Middle English is due to the fact that speakers began to equate it with the modal verbs and therefore to treat it syntactically as a modal verb.The exposition is clear and does not assume an up-to-date knowledge of generative theory. The book will appeal to the wide spectrum of scholars interested in the transformation of Old to Middle English as well as those studying the processes and causes of syntactic change more generally.
Author : Peter Collins
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027298777
The focus in this volume is on grammatical aspects of the clause in English, presenting a fine balance between theoretically- and descriptively-oriented approaches. Some authors investigate the status and properties of ‘minor’ or ‘fringe’ constructions, including ‘deictic-presentationals’; non-restrictive relative clauses with that; ‘isolated if-clauses’, and ‘exceptional clauses’. In some articles the validity of conventional accounts and approaches is questioned: such as traditional constituency trees and labelled bracketings as a means of representing relationships between parenthetical elements and their ‘hosts’; or traditional morphophonemic analyses as explanations for Ross’s ‘doubl-ing’ constraint. While some authors question commonly made assumptions (for example those concerning the relationships of clauses to sentences and propositions; or those concerning the status of post-head dependents in the NP), others appeal to new frameworks (for instance ‘emergence theory’ is used as a source of inspiration in dealing with ‘intransitive prepositions’). This collection also includes articles that adopt a solidly corpus-based approach. The Clause in English has been prepared by colleagues past and present, friends and admirers of Rodney Huddleston, in order to honour his consistently outstanding contribution to grammatical theory and description.
Author : Morgan Callaway
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Author : Edward Adolf Sonnenschein
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1917
Category : English language
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Author : John Mulligan
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 1854
Category : English language
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Author : John Samuel Kenyon
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 1909
Category : English language
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Author : Etsko Kruisinga
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 1925
Category : English language
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