Argument Structure in Flux: The Development of Impersonal Constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with Special Reference to Verbs of Desire (Linguistic Insights Book 274) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition
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| Management number | 222237226 | Release Date | 2026/05/04 | List Price | $27.58 | Model Number | 222237226 | ||
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The class of verbs of Desire comprises verbs whose syntax and semantics have undergone important changes in the course of their histories. Their argument structure involves a Desirer and a Desired, and in earlier English they could be used impersonally in constructions lacking a subject marked for the nominative case. The book presents three case studies based on a comprehensive survey of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary and the Middle English Dictionary and on corpus data retrieved from EEBOCorp 1.0 (1470s–1690s). The results obtained unveil the loss of impersonal uses and their gradual replacement by personal patterns, in particular a pattern where the verb governs a prepositional complement representing the Desired as a metaphorical goal. Read more
| XRay | Not Enabled |
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| ISBN13 | 978-3034342087 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| File size | 3.6 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers |
| Word Wise | Not Enabled |
| Print length | 292 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Part of series | Linguistic Insights |
| Publication date | March 25, 2021 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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