Screen LibraryGenerative theory and corpus studies : a dialogue from 10 icehl /
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©2000 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Topics in english linguistics [tiel] ;
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110814699 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110814699.jpg |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (559pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110814699 |
| Index Number: | PE1097 |
| CLC: | H314 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Structure -- 1.1. Continuity versus discontinuity -- Obsolescence and sudden death in syntax: The decline of verb-final order in early Middle English -- On the history of relative that -- The complementation of verbs of appearance by adverbs -- On the use of current intuition as a bias in historical linguistics: The case of the LOOK + -ly construction in English -- The indefinite pronoun man: nominal or pronominal ? -- 1.2. Form and function -- Coordinate deletion, directionality and underlying structure in Old English -- The position of the adjective in Old English -- On the history of the s-genitive -- The passive as an object foregrounding device in early Modern English -- Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation -- 2. Text types -- Variation and change: Text types and the modelling of syntactic change -- The progressive form and genre variation during the nineteenth century -- The conjunction and in early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts -- 3. Sociolinguistics and dialectology -- Processes of supralocalisation and the rise of Standard English in the early Modern period -- The rise and fall of periphrastic DO in early Modern English, or Howe the Scots will declare themselv s -- Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century -- Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots -- Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English -- Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography -- 4. Phonology -- HappY-tensing: A recent innovation? -- Syllable ONSET in the history of English -- Name index -- Subject index |