Ebook: Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax
Author: Claudia Claridge Birte Bös
- Tags: English language -- Grammar Historical, English language -- Morphosyntax
- Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 346
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Language: English
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Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic verbal constructions, auxiliary variation and evolution, as well as changing word order options. Read more...