Historical English Syntax

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1991

Historical English Syntax

Edited by: Dieter Kastovsky

Volume 2 in the series Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863314

Contents

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Introduction Dieter Kastovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Bibliography of Leon Kellner’s writings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Should John Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
On the typological status of Old English Leiv Egil Breivik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
What positions fit in? Fran Colman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Language change typology and some aspects of the SVO development in English Andrei Danchev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Pronoun and reference in Old English poetry Hans-Jürgen Diller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
The rise of the passive infinitive in English Olga Fischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Question-answer sequences in Old English Udo Fries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Between hypotaxis and parataxis. Clauses of reason in Ancrene Wisse Andreas H. Jucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Prepositional phrases expressing adverbs of time from Late Old English to Early Middle English Veronika Kniezsa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Can (could) vs. may (might): regional variation in Early Modern English? Merja Kytö Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Locative valency of the English verb: a historical approach Anatolij M. Mukhin and Natalya M. Yulikova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Motivated archaism: the use of affirmative periphrastic do in Early Modern English liturgical prose Terttu Nevalainen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Spoken language and the history of do-periphrasis Matti Rissanen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
The be/have variation with intransitives in its crucial phases Mats Rydén Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Semantic aspects of syntactic change Dieter Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Subordination and word order change in the history of English Robert P. Stockwell and Donka Minkova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English Toril Swan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Lexical diffusion in syntactic change: frequency as a determinant of linguistic conservatism in the development of negation in English Gunnel Tottie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
On the stylistic basis of syntactic change Susan M. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
Index of technical terms and topics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	501
511-512 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2012
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 510
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 80
Keywords: Englisch; Historische Syntax; Kongress; Liechtenstein

eBook

Published: November 21, 2011
ISBN: 9783110863314

Hardcover

Published: February 1, 1991
ISBN: 9783110124316