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ISBN 10: 9027290997
ISBN 13: 9789027290991
Author: Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena, Richard Dury
The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many innovative contributions focused on syntax and morphology. A carefully peer-reviewed selection, including one of the plenary lectures, appears here in print for the first time, bearing witness to the quality of the scholarly interest in this field of research. In all the contributions, well-established methods combine with new theoretical approaches in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. State-of-the-art tools, such as electronic corpora and concordancing software, are employed consistently, ensuring a methodological homogeneity of the contributions.
Table of contents:
Part I. Old and Middle English
The balance between syntax and discourse in Old English
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A problem in Old English
2.1 Adverbs particles as discourse partitioners
2.2 More referring expressions
2.3 Discourse and syntactic structure in OE -
A quantitative approach
3.1 Parameters and values -
Discussion and conclusion
References
The Old English copula weorðan and its replacement in Middle English
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Methodological considerations how unrepresentative are the data
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The OE network of copula constructions
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The development of becuman as a copula
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Distributional differences between weorðan and becuman explained
References
Corpora used
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Introduction
2.2 The word order patterns
2.3 Verb types -
Analysis and discussion
3.1 Existential verbs in the XVS pattern
3.2 Verbs with complement in the XVS pattern
3.3 Verbs with complement in the XSV pattern
3.4 Copulas in the SVX pattern
References
For Old English
For Middle English
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Aims and organization
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Background: locative, durative and focalized progressives and PROG imperfective drift
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Corpus and methodology
4.1 Durative, focalized and other progressives in Old to Early Modern English
4.2 The origin of the progressive -
Conclusion
Secondary sources -
Introduction
1.1 Gender definition -
Gender in Old English
2.1 First type of gender deviance: nature over grammar
2.2 Second type of gender deviance: semantic perspective -
Third type: more than one gender related to individuated
3.2 Third type of gender deviance: specific individuated
3.3 Third type of gender deviance: agent vs. patient -
Conclusion
References -
Introduction
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PDE quantifier all
3.1 Eall with full NP
3.2 Eall with pronoun
3.3 Floating quantifier eall
3.4 Other cases
3.5 Summary
4.1 Quantifier Phrase
4.2 Floating quantifier
References -
Introduction
2.1 Sources
2.2 Results
2.3 Observations -
Discussion
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Analysis
Sources
References -
Introduction
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Description of the Corpus
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Syntactic dialectology in Middle English
4.1 Description
4.2 Distribution
5.1 Description
5.2 Distribution -
Conclusions
References -
Introduction
2.1 Origin of particles
2.2 Can particles be analysed as predicates
2.3.1 Unselected objects
2.3.3 Telicity
3.1 Path predicates grammaticalize
3.2 The defocused complement of Prt
3.3 Grounds as fully affected objects
4.1 Evidence for grammaticalization
4.2 No predicate quirks in OE and ME
4.3 Particle verbs in EModE -
Conclusion
References
Part II. Early and Late Modern English
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Introduction
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Structural types in English deadjectival adverb formation
3.1 X-ly and Y-ly
3.2 X and Y-ly
3.3 X-ly and Y
3.4 X and Y
4.1 Status of asymmetric formation patterns in coordination
4.2 Choice of formation type in adverbial coordination: Paradigmatic selection
4.3 Choice of formation type in adverbial coordination: Morphological brachylogy, ellipsis
4.4 Paradigmatic selection vs. morphological brachylogy: Does it have to be either or -
Cross-linguistic context
Primary sources
Secondary sources -
Introduction
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The structure of EModE pronoun focus: it-ClCs
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The relation between IdCCs and ClCs
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Conclusions
References -
Introduction
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The non-finite complements of emotion verbs in Present-day English
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The historical development of all three construction types
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General and specific predication with a non-modalised matrix verb
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Conclusion
Primary
Secondary -
Introduction
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Subjective and objective meanings of the progressive from Old English to Modern English
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The three types of subjective progressives in Early and Late Modern English
3.1 Type 1: Subjective progressive with ALWAYS
3.2 Type 2: Subjective progressive without ALWAYS
3.3 Type 3: Interpretative progressives -
Objective progressives
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Subjective and objective progressives in the seventeenth and eighteenth century data of ARCHER 2
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The relation between subjectification, objectification and grammaticalization
References
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