Late Modern English Syntax

by Hundt, Marianne

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Full title :Late Modern English Syntax / edited by Marianne Hundt.

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The Late Modern period is the first in the history of English for which an unprecedented wealth of textual material exists. Using increasingly sophisticated databases, the contributions in this volume explore grammatical usage from the period, specifically morphological and syntactic change, in a broad context. Some chapters explore the socio-historical background of the period while others provide information on prescriptivism, newspaper language, language contact, and regional variation in British and American English. Internal processes of change are discussed against grammaticalisation theory and construction grammar and the rich body of textual evidence is used to draw inferences on the precise nature of historical change. Exposing readers to a wealth of data that informs the description of a broad range of syntactic phenomena, this book is ideal for graduate students and researchers interested in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and language development.

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Publication Date:2014.

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Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:1 Online-Ressource

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ISBN:9781139507226, 1139507222, 1107032792, 9781107032798
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139507226
oclc:ocn949923308
LC Classification:PE1361
Dewey Decimal:425

1. Introduction: Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and socio-historical context Marianne Hundt -- Part I. Changes in the VP: 2. The decline of the BE-perfect, linguistic relativity, and grammar writing in the nineteenth century Lieselotte Anderwald -- 3. Let's not, Let's don't and Don't let's in British and American English Anita Auer -- 4. Do we got a difference? Divergent developments of semi-auxiliary (have) got (to) in British and American English Christian Mair -- 5. From contraction to construction? The recent life of 'll Nadja Nesselhauf -- 6. Books that sell -- mediopassives and the modification 'constraint' Marianne Hundt -- Part II. Changes in the NP: 7. Beyond mere syntactic change: a micro-analytical study of various and numerous Tine Breban -- 8. Culturally conditioned language change? A multivariate analysis of genitive constructions in ARCHER Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Anette Rosenbach, Joan Bresnan and Christoph Wolk --

Part III. Changes in Complementation Patterns: 9. On the changing status of that-clauses nter Rohdenburg -- 10. Variability in verb complementation in Late Modern English: finite vs. non-finite patterns Hubert Cuyckens, Frauke D'Hoedt and Ben…

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