Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic verbal constructions, auxiliary variation and evolution, as well as changing word order options. Favouring corpus-linguistic, frequency-based and statistical approaches, the studies are firmly empirically grounded.
The book is aimed at scholars interested in the history of the English language and in language variation and change.
| ISBN: | 9789027203236 |
| Publication date: | 27th May 2019 |
| Author: | Claudia Claridge, Birte Bös |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 318 pages |
| Series: | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory |
| Genres: |
Historical and comparative linguistics |
Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic verbal constructions, auxiliary variation and evolution, as well as changing word order options.
Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax features in the following genres: Historical and comparative linguistics
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Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax was written by Claudia Claridge, Birte Bös and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company
Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax has 318 pages
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