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Developments in English historical morpho-syntax / edited by Claudia Claridge, Birte Bös. — 1 online resource. — (Current issues in linguistic theory). — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2140821.pdf>.

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Subject: English language — Grammar, Historical.; English language — Morphosyntax.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General

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Table of Contents

  • DEVELOPMENTS IN ENGLISH HISTORICAL MORPHO-SYNTAX
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
    • 1. Survey
    • 2. Nominal constructions
    • 3. Verbal constructions
    • 4. Adverbs and adverbials
    • References
  • The dynamics of changes in the early English inflection: Evidence from the Old English nominal system
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Restructuring of the Old English nominal inflection: Major tendencies
    • 3. Factors affecting the dynamics of changes in the nominal paradigms
      • 3.1 Frequency of occurrence (use)
      • 3.2 Morpho-phonological salience of inflectional exponents
      • 3.3 Neutral forms and analogical pressure
      • 3.4 Interaction between frequency and morpho-phonological salience
    • 4. Conclusions
    • References
  • “Subsumed under the dative”?: The status of the Old English instrumental
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. What is a “vestigial” case?
    • 3. Distributional analysis: Frequencies and collexemes
      • 3.1 Overview
      • 3.2 Instrumental-case determiners
      • 3.3 Instrumental-case adjectives
      • 3.4 Interim synthesis and discussion
    • 4. Fixed formulae or productive pattern?
    • 5. What influences the degree to which the instrumental is used?
    • 6. Conclusion: The instrumental as “vestigial”
    • Acknowledgement
    • References
  • ‘Thone vpon thother’: On pronouns one and other with initial th- and t- in Middle English
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Setting the stage – The DP cycle and double articulation of definiteness
    • 3. The pronouns tone/thone and tother/thother in ME
    • 4. The origins of tone/thone and tother/thother
    • 5. A correlation between reduced th’ and development of tone/thone and tother/thother
    • 6. Toward an account of thone/thother and tone/tother
    • 7. Conclusion
    • Sources
    • References
  • Leveraging grammaticalization: The origins of Old Frisian and Old English
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Grammaticalization as a diagnostic tool
      • 2.1 Comparing Old Frisian and Old English
      • 2.2 Mechanisms of language change in contact and inheritance scenarios
      • 2.3 Additional complications for related languages
      • 2.4 Demystifying drift
      • 2.5 Grammaticalization as a diagnostic tool
    • 3. Test case 1: aga(n)
      • 3.1 The grammaticalization of OE agan
      • 3.2 Semantic layering: Intermediate stages and a semantic GSG
      • 3.3 Another marker of intermediate stages: to
      • 3.4 Infinitive inflections in aga’s complement
    • 4. Test case 2: The participle-based complement
      • 4.1 The participle-as-verb-complement: A potential GSG
      • 4.2 Erosion in Old Frisian infinitive and participle endings
      • 4.3 The distribution of Old Frisian infinitives
    • 5. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgement
    • References
  • Old English wolde and sceolde: A semantic and syntactic analysis
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Theoretical considerations: Modality and grammaticalization
    • 3. Wolde and sceolde in Old English: Analysis of the data
    • 4. Discussion of the results
      • 4.1 wolde
      • 4.2 sceolde
    • 5. Conclusion
    • References
  • A corpus-based study on the development of dare in Middle English and Early Modern English
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The ancestors of the modal verbs and the status of dare, tharf and need in OE
      • 2.1 Morphological features
      • 2.2 Syntactic features
      • 2.3 Semantics
    • 3. Data and methodology
    • 4. Blurred categorisation
    • 5. Conclusions
    • Primary sources
    • References
  • Counterfactuality and aktionsart: Predictors for BE vs. HAVE + past participle in Middle English
    • 1. Development of periphrases with BE/HAVE + past participle in English
    • 2. BE/HAVE + past participle with mutative intransitives in middle English – a case of auxiliary selection in the perfect?
    • 3. Data and classification
    • 4. Results and discussion
      • 4.1 General results (N = 257)
      • 4.2 Controlling for the “counterfactual effect”
      • 4.3 Controlling for counterfactuality and aktionsart (N = 97)
      • 4.4 Mixed-effects logistic regression analysis
    • 5. Implications for different accounts of the BE/HAVE-periphrases
    • 6. Conclusion
    • References
  • Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels
    • 1. Introduction
      • 1.1 Previous studies
      • 1.2 The present study
      • 1.3 Basic motion situation
      • 1.4 Hypotheses
    • 2. Method
    • 3. Results
      • 3.1 Motion situations in Jane Austen’s letters
      • 3.2 Motion situations in Jane Austen’s novels
    • 4. Letters versus novels
    • 5. Conclusion
    • References
    • Appendix
  • Signs of grammaticalization: Tracking the get-passive through COHA
    • 1. Introduction
      • 1.1 Aim and scope
      • 1.2 Grammaticalization and the get-passive
      • 1.3 Parameters investigated in the present study
    • 2. Material and methods
      • 2.1 COHA
      • 2.2 Data selection and retrieval
      • 2.3 Classification of passives in the data sets
    • 3. Results and discussion
      • 3.1 Diachronic frequency of central and semi-passives in COHA
      • 3.2 Situation type
      • 3.3 Subject type
      • 3.4 Frequent past participles in get- and be-passives
    • 4. Conclusion
    • Sources
    • References
    • Appendix
  • From time-before-place to place-before-time in the history of English: A corpus-based analysis of adverbial clusters
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Factors that motivate the order of adverbials in clusters – previous research and annotation of the data
    • 3. Data and methodology
    • 4. Results of the analyses
    • 5. Discussion
      • 5.1 Complements and their proximity to the lexical verb
      • 5.2 Weight, realization form and the given-before-new principle
    • 6. Conclusion
    • References
    • Appendix
  • Variation and change at the interface of syntax and semantics: Concessive clauses in American English
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Theoretical background and previous research
      • 2.1 Three semantic types of concessives
      • 2.2 ‘Contrastive sequencing’
    • 3. Methodology
    • 4. Results
      • 4.1 Semantics
      • 4.2 Complement-internal syntax
      • 4.3 Complement length
      • 4.4 Multifactorial analysis of contrastive sequencing
    • 5. Discussion, conclusion and outlook
    • References
    • Appendix
  • Further explorations in the grammar of intensifier marking in Modern English
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Past and present participles
    • 3. Predicative and attributive adjectives
    • 4. Two kinds of adverbs
    • 5. Prepositional phrases and NPs
    • 6. Manner adverbs and adjectives
    • 7. Concluding remarks
    • References
    • Electronic sources
  • The rivalry between far from being + predicative item and its counterpart omitting the copula in Modern English
    • 1. Setting the scene
    • 2. Historical developments
      • 2.1 Clausal type a involving adjectives in the narrative database and the OED
      • 2.2 Other environments
    • 3. Complexity constraints
      • 3.1 Cognitive accessibility
      • 3.2 The relevance of morphologically-based categories
      • 3.3 Syntactic constraints in the language of present-day British newspapers
    • 4. Comparing British and American English
      • 4.1 Historical contrasts: The lag and overtake scenario
      • 4.2 Some remaining contrasts: The present-day situation as reflected in large collections of British and American newspapers
    • 5. Conclusion
    • References
      • Electronic corpora
  • Index

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