Argument Structure in Flux

The Development of Impersonal Constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with Special Reference to Verbs of Desire

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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.
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300 pages
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n.c
Parution
2021-03-25
Marque
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
EAN papier
9783034341899
EAN PDF
9783034342070

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60
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60
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4628 Ko
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59,19 €
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9783034342087

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60
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60
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2959 Ko
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59,19 €

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