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Brief History of English Syntax
In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offers a comprehensive and reader-friendly account of the major developments, …
A Brief History of English Syntax
In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offers a comprehensive and reader-friendly account of the major developments, …
Explorations in English Historical Syntax
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause …
Brief History of English Syntax
In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offers a comprehensive and reader-friendly account of the major developments, …
Spreading Patterns
Spreading Change: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation examines the emergence and spread of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the …
Spreading Patterns
Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through the grammar of a language, in a process called "e;diffusion"e;. This is done by tracking the …
On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change
In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume …