Argument Structure in Flux
Castro-Chao, Noelia
Produktnummer:
189fb57fecb1d840cc99574bb25eb4d4e2
| Autor: | Castro-Chao, Noelia |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | The class of verbs comprehensive survey of the Dictionaries syntax and semantics |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 21.01.2021 |
| EAN: | 9783034341899 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers |
| Untertitel: | The Development of Impersonal Constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with Special Reference to Verbs of Desire |
Produktinformationen "Argument Structure in Flux"
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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