Author: Olga Fischer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556262
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of early English syntax, it gives a unified account of the significant grammatical changes that occurred during this period. Four leading experts demonstrate how these changes can be explained in terms of grammatical theory and the theory of language acquisition. Drawing on a wealth of empirical data, the book covers a wide range of topics including changes in word order, infinitival constructions and grammaticalization processes.
The syntax of early English
Author: Olga Fischer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556262
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of early English syntax, it gives a unified account of the significant grammatical changes that occurred during this period. Four leading experts demonstrate how these changes can be explained in terms of grammatical theory and the theory of language acquisition. Drawing on a wealth of empirical data, the book covers a wide range of topics including changes in word order, infinitival constructions and grammaticalization processes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556262
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of early English syntax, it gives a unified account of the significant grammatical changes that occurred during this period. Four leading experts demonstrate how these changes can be explained in terms of grammatical theory and the theory of language acquisition. Drawing on a wealth of empirical data, the book covers a wide range of topics including changes in word order, infinitival constructions and grammaticalization processes.
The Syntax of Early English
Author: Olga Fischer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521554107
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of early English syntax, it gives a unified account of the significant grammatical changes that occurred during this period. Four leading experts demonstrate how these changes can be explained in terms of grammatical theory and the theory of language acquisition. Drawing on a wealth of empirical data, the book covers a wide range of topics including changes in word order, infinitival constructions and grammaticalization processes.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521554107
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of early English syntax, it gives a unified account of the significant grammatical changes that occurred during this period. Four leading experts demonstrate how these changes can be explained in terms of grammatical theory and the theory of language acquisition. Drawing on a wealth of empirical data, the book covers a wide range of topics including changes in word order, infinitival constructions and grammaticalization processes.
Analyzing Syntax through Texts
Author: Elly van Gelderen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474420397
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474420397
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A Brief History of English Syntax
Author: Olga Fischer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768586
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
An accessible, up-to-date account of the major changes in English syntax since its beginnings up to the present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768586
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
An accessible, up-to-date account of the major changes in English syntax since its beginnings up to the present day.
Introduction to Early Modern English
Author: Manfred Görlach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521310468
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
A comprehensive account of Early Modern English considers writing and orthography, phonetics and phonology, syntax and the lexicon, and includes a valuable anthology of culturally oriented texts from a wide range of sources.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521310468
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
A comprehensive account of Early Modern English considers writing and orthography, phonetics and phonology, syntax and the lexicon, and includes a valuable anthology of culturally oriented texts from a wide range of sources.
Explorations in English Historical Syntax
Author: Hubert Cuyckens
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027263841
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027263841
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.
Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax
Author: Mary Eva Blockley
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026065
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Distinguished by a remarkable combination of erudition and lucidity, Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax provides new insight into the rules that govern syntactic relationships and indicates how these rules differ for prose and verse. Blockley considers the functions of four of the most common and most syntactically important words in Old English, as well as such features of clauses as verb-initial order, negative contraction, and unexpressed but understood subjects. Picking up where Bruce Mitchell's classic Old English Syntax left off, Blockley shows how such common words and structures mark the relationships between phrases and clauses.".
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026065
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Distinguished by a remarkable combination of erudition and lucidity, Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax provides new insight into the rules that govern syntactic relationships and indicates how these rules differ for prose and verse. Blockley considers the functions of four of the most common and most syntactically important words in Old English, as well as such features of clauses as verb-initial order, negative contraction, and unexpressed but understood subjects. Picking up where Bruce Mitchell's classic Old English Syntax left off, Blockley shows how such common words and structures mark the relationships between phrases and clauses.".
Adventures in English Syntax
Author: Robert Freidin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487726
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
An engaging introduction to English sentence structure, showing how users can apply this knowledge to become better readers and writers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487726
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
An engaging introduction to English sentence structure, showing how users can apply this knowledge to become better readers and writers.
Old English Syntax
Author: Bruce Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780918119445
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780918119445
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Syntax and Style in Old English
Author: S. O. Andrew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107559774
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Originally published in 1940, this book was written in 'an attempt to drive a few main lines through the almost unexplored tract of Old English syntax'. The text also reaches important conclusions regarding the characteristic features of Old English style and its close relationship with syntactical elements, both in prose and verse. Reference is frequently made to the 'traditional text' of Beowulf. That is to say, the text as it was usually punctuated by editors at the time of publication. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Old English and linguistics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107559774
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Originally published in 1940, this book was written in 'an attempt to drive a few main lines through the almost unexplored tract of Old English syntax'. The text also reaches important conclusions regarding the characteristic features of Old English style and its close relationship with syntactical elements, both in prose and verse. Reference is frequently made to the 'traditional text' of Beowulf. That is to say, the text as it was usually punctuated by editors at the time of publication. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Old English and linguistics.