Early English Impersonal Construction

Ruth Möhlig-Falke

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the History of English
• The Early English Impersonal Construction aims to demonstrate that an understanding of the functional and semantic aspects of impersonal verbs in Old ... Lees meer

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English

Anneli Meurman-Solin, Maria Jose Lopez-Couso, Bettelou Los

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the History of English
• Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change... Lees meer

Motion and the English Verb

Judith Huber

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the History of English
• In Motion and the English Verb , a study of the expression of motion in medieval English, Judith Huber provides extensive inventories of verbs used in... Lees meer

Middle English Verbs of Emotion and Impersonal Constructions

Ayumi Miura

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the History of English
• Impersonal constructions in the history of English form a puzzling category, in that there has been uncertainty as to why some verbs are attested in s... Lees meer

Language Between Description and Prescription

Lieselotte Anderwald

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the History of English
• Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative study of nineteenth-century English grammar writing, and o... Lees meer

Speech Representation in the History of English

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the History of English
• Representing what someone else has said is an integral part of spoken and written communication. Speech representation occurs in many contexts from ne... Lees meer

Constructions and Environments

Peter Petré

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the History of English
• This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive verb constructions in Old and Middle English. Peter Petré an... Lees meer

Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction

Beatrix Busse

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the History of English
• Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative. These reports further a narrative, make it more... Lees meer

Spreading Patterns

Hendrik de Smet

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the History of English
• Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through the grammar of a language, in a process called "diffusion". This is done b... Lees meer

Categoriality in Language Change

Lauren Fonteyn

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the History of English
• This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes... Lees meer